Students at Manchester Metropolitan University will pay up to £9,000 in fees.
But managers at the 33,000-student university have said that three-quarters of their courses will cost £8,000.
Fees at British universities are currently set at £3,290 but will rise next year after the government cut its subsidy for first-time degrees.
The former polytechnic – which receives more applications than any other British university – said one fifth of subjects, including healthcare and architecture would attract the top fee because of higher running costs.
MMU managers will also introduce £10m scholarship fund offering support to students from low-income families.
More than 40 institutions have announced their new prices. More than three-quarters plan to charge the full £9,000 permitted by the government.
They include Manchester University, which announced last month it would charge the maximum. A new bursary scheme, the details of which are to be announced, will help poorer students.
Bolton and Salford Universities have yet to declare their fees.
John Brookes, the vice-chancellor of MMU, who has previously spoken in favour of variable pricing for different degree subjects, insisted that learners from poor backgrounds would not be put off.
He said: “This university has a long tradition of supporting less privileged people of all ages across the region through their higher education.
“We are absolutely determined that we remain loyal to our core student bodies and soften the blow of rises as best we can.
“We feel that our fees represent the correct balance between offering a high quality University education and student experience, and the actual costs of delivering this.”
Government ministers had initially suggested only a small number of institutions would adopt higher fees, as they would be obliged to provide extra discounts.
But universities have argued that government cuts to their funding have forced them to set fees at the highest level.
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Britain is desperately short of mathematicians,scientists and engineers. Manchester has some of the finest facilities in the world for these vocations (I know because I did it). The government should train them,fees paid,in order to encourage young people to take up these courses. The only condition should be that if they drop out,they would have to pay all or part of their fees! |Forget the naff useless academic courses,who needs a psychologist or someone reading the classics, we need people who are capable of MAKING something!
MMU is a devolved Polytechnic, you know one of those Mickey Mouse Universities with cheap dedree's. A Skoda university wanting to charge Rolls Royce fees.
It It Me,or Wot: my daughter is just completing her Degree in Mathematics and Sport Exercise Science (4 modulars in Maths) - she has been on a predicted First throughout Uni but has been unable to get a job - does it really matter what Britain needs - if there are no jobs for these graduates, it hardly seems worth slogging their guts out to gain a degree in a, "good", subject, just to be on the scrapheap with everyone else!