Membership & Renewal Rates

Membership rates as listed below are per institution with an unlimited number of users per membership. However, as stated in our license agreement, members must agree not to distribute in any form their password or documents accessed from The Observatory's website to non-subscribing individuals or groups.

A 10% discount is available for all rates over a two-year period and a 15% discount over a three-year period. To take advantage of these discounts, the full two- or three-year amount must be paid at the start of the membership (renewal). If you are unsure of your membership category, please contact us at info@obhe.ac.uk. A printer-friendly version of these rates is available.

RATES

A - Non-profit educational institutions and organisations -  £1,100 (EU: £1,293 incl. VAT)

B - Any institution or organisation located in a 'developing' country* - £300

C - Non-profit institutions with less than 2,000 full-time equivalent students - £330 (EU: £388 incl. VAT)

D - For-profit education institutions and private corporations - £1,650 (EU: £1,939 incl. VAT)**

E - National/regional inter-university bodies*** - £550 (EU: £646 incl. VAT)

F - Government departments/funding agencies - £2,000 (EU: £2,350 incl. VAT)

Please note that The Observatory does not give any refunds for membership fees.

 

* The list of developed countries is based on selected data from The World Bank and the OECD. All countries NOT listed here are considered 'developing' for the purposes of Observatory membership.

Andorra	Egypt	Jordan	Poland
Aruba	Estonia	Korean, Republic of	Portugal
Australia	Faroe Islands	Kuwait	Puerto Rico
Austria	Finland	Latvia	Qatar
The Bahamas	France	Lebanon	Romania
Bahrain	French Polynesia	Liechtenstein	San Marino
Barbados	Germany	Lithuania	Saudi Arabia
Belgium	Greece	Luxembourg	Serbia
Bermuda	Greenland	Macao, China	Singapore
Brunei	Guam	Macedonia	Slovakia
Bulgaria	Hong Kong, China	Malta	Slovenia
Canada	Hungary	Monaco	Spain
Cayman Islands	Iceland	Montenegro	Sweden
Channel Islands	India	The Netherlands	Switzerland
China	Ireland	Netherlands Antilles	United Arab Emirates
Croatia	Isle of Man	New Caledonia	United Kingdom
Cyprus	Israel	New Zealand	United States of America
Czech Republic	Italy	Norway	Virgin Islands (USA)
Denmark	Japan	Pakistan

 

** For this category, VAT will not apply to non-UK organisations if a VAT registration number is supplied.

 

 

*** The following National and Regional Inter-University Bodies are affiliated to The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education:

 

The American Council on Education (ACE);

 

The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU);

 

The Association of Universities & Colleges Canada (AUCC);

 

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL);

 

The European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN);

 

The European University Association (EUA);

 

The International Association of Universities (IAU);

 

The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA); and

 

Universities UK (UUK).

 

The Observatory is pleased to offer national and regional inter-university bodies a discounted membership rate of £550 per year. This gives the inter-university body affiliated status, and offers all its members access to The Observatory's website at membership rate A. In return for the discounted rate, the inter-university body will agree to some form of promotion of The Observatory to its members. Please note that the discounted rate for inter-university bodies gives access to The Observatory's website for staff directly employed by the inter-university body only. It does not give direct access to any members of the inter-university body (i.e. individual universities and colleges).

 

Student subscriptions

The Observatory offers Graduate / Master's / Doctoral Students who are registered at non-OBHE member institutions a £250 individual subscription for 12 months, provided that:

(1) they provide The Observatory with a signed letter from their university stating that they are a current registered student at that university, and

(2) they adhere to the following conditions: students must agree not to distribute or sell their passwords or documents accessed from The Observatory’s website to non-subscribing individuals or groups. The copyright on all research materials is owned by The Observatory. Any use of The Observatory’s resources without prior approval is a violation of international copyright law. The Observatory reserves the right to terminate a subscriber’s membership for unauthorised distribution of resources or violation of copyright law.