The University of Edinburgh is due to lose a fifth of its research funding due to Britain leaving the EU.

The university is going to have to replace a huge amount of its research funding after 2020, when the current EU research funding deal ends. It’s not yet clear where the replacement funds are going to come from, or what programmes will be cut.

Edinburgh receives a whopping £45,000,000 a year from the EU, out of their total research funds of £226,000,000. British universities are hit hard across the board, with Southampton Solent losing over 90% of their funding, according to Digital Science.

Newer universities don’t tend to have large endowments as they haven’t got as many alumni donating to them, meaning they are more vulnerable to Britain leaving the EU and the subsequent loss of EU grants.