Below are the approximate sums of my daughter (Science) in London (in pounds):First YearFees\t18000School Dorm with breakfast, dinner and housekeeping (9 months, Single Room, Shared Toilet with another room)\t7100Grocery / Food / Transport / Phone Bills / Entertainment\t300 x 9 months = 2700Total = 27800 poundsAbove exclude airtickets but incl the several trips she made to Spain, Italy, Paris, and one more (can't remember) during her breaks (usually a group of them traveled together and staying in 10 pounds/night dorm, backpacker-style).She is coming back for Jun holidays soon and I still have about 2500 pounds in the bank after my first transfer of 30,000 pounds into her account (meaning for first year, she spent about 27,500 pounds, incl of everything such as buying of a printer, etc).Her second year budget:Fees\t19500Single Room in a shared-apartment (12 months)\t9360Grocery / Food / Transport / Phone Bills \t450 x 12 = 5400Total = 34,260Second year I will not give her any budget for travelling and entertainment coz she will work on weekends as a salesperson (making about 6 pounds / hour).PS: She lives comfortably with above allowance. Her Jun - Sep holidays will be interned in Spore at S$600/month. She plans to have second year internship in London itself and therefore she looks for 12-month tenure for her second year accommodation (lease usually signed with either 9 months or 12 months or 24 months tenure there. 9-month tenure tends to fetch higher weekly rate than 12-month and so it's very challenging to try to match).PS2: She is not a scholar but ALL her close female peers are scholars. ALL these scholars want to have single room and so she can't find anyone to share room with and have to take on a single room herself which both of us feel is unnecessary expenses. As scholars' accommodation charges are highly (if not fully) subsidised, ALL her peers go for single room. (meaning if your child can find someone to share room, the accomodation cost can drop quite a lot if she is not going there under scholarship). Her new accommodation is within walking distance to school and so rent is very expensive, meaning further away is much cheaper but then have to factor in transport charges, travel time, discomfort of moving around in bitter winter, etc...Hope above info is helpful to your planning...Note: numbers edited. Roughly first year to budget about S$60,000 and second year S$70,000.