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The student loan for tuition fees is available to Home full-time, undergraduate, first degree students.
The loan can cover up to the full amount of tuition fees charged.
The Student Loans Company will pay your fees to the university on your behalf in three instalments per year.
Whether you qualify for a tuition fee loan depends on a variety of factors:
your course
if you’ve studied a higher education course before
your nationality or residency status.
Your course needs to be in the UK and one of the following:
a first degree, for example BA, BSc or BEd
a Foundation Degree
an Initial Teacher Training course
an integrated master’s degree
a pre-registration postgraduate healthcare course.
If you are studying part-time, your course needs a ‘course intensity’ of 25% or more for you to be eligible for student finance.
Note on previous study:
You’ll usually only receive student finance if you’re doing your first higher education qualification - even if your previous course was self-funded. You may still be eligible for limited funding in certain circumstances.
If you have studied before please visit our previous study page for more information.
Nationality or residency status:
You can apply if all of the following apply:
you’re a UK national or have ‘settled status’ (no restrictions on how long you can stay)
you normally live in England
you’ve been living in the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for 3 years before starting your course.
Non-UK nationals must have settled status on the first day of the first academic year of the course.
You may also be eligible if your residency status is one of the following:
refugee
humanitarian protection
EEA migrant worker
child of a Swiss national
child of a Turkish worker
a stateless person (including family members) and you’re a new student starting on or after 1 August 2018.
You may also be eligible if you’re not a UK national and are either:
under 18 and have lived in the UK for at least 7 years
18 or over and have lived in the UK for at least 20 years (or at least half of your life).
Students apply for student finance every year of their course.
You don’t need a confirmed place at university or college to apply.
New and continuing students starting in 2020 are expected to be able to apply from March 2020 with a deadline of 31 May 2020.
You can still apply after this date, but your funding assessment may not be ready in time for the start of term in September.
Applications take between 6-8 weeks to be assessed by student finance, we recommend all students make their applications as soon as possible in order to have all funding in place by the start of term.
All students in 2020-21 should apply online through Student Finance England. Applications are available online from March 2020 onwards.
New and continuing students can apply online at the Student Finance Wales website.
Alternatively you can call the Student Finance Wales Contact Centre on
0300 200 4050 to request an application form.
The Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) will be accepting online applications for student support from around April 2020. You should contact SAAS for information about arrangements in Scotland.
SAAS can be contacted on 0300 555 0505, or you can visit them online.
You can apply for student support online via Student Finance Northern Ireland and can contact them on 0300 100 0077.
If you are an EU national or the family member of an EU national, you can get information about the financial support arrangements while you are studying at college in England from the Student Finance Services Non-UK Team. The team can be contacted at +44 (0)141 243 3570.
The Government has confirmed that EU students starting university in the 2020/21 academic year will have access to Student Finance England funding for the duration of their course in England.
Please see here for further information on the continuation of EU student funding for 2020/21
Year of entry |
Tuition |
New students - starting in 2017 or later |
Tuition fees will be set at £9,250, so you will be able to apply for a tuition fee loan for up to £9,250. |
Continuing students - started between 2012-2016 |
Tuition fees will be set at £9,000, so you will be able to apply for a tuition fee loan for up to £9,000. |
Continuing students - started in 2011 or earlier |
Tuition fees will be set at £3,465, so you will be able to apply for a tuition loan for up to £3,465. |
Please note, this tuition fee may be subject to small annual inflationary increases depending on government policy.
IMPORTANT! If you request a fee loan for less than this amount, you will be invoiced directly for the difference.
You can apply for a student loan for fees as part of your application for student support.
If you do not apply for the student loan for fees at this time, or do not apply for the full amount for which you are eligible, you should be able to amend the loan amount at a later date.
You should remember, however, that if you have not applied for a full student loan for fees, or are not eligible for a loan for the full amount of your fees, you will be expected to make payment in full by 31 January 2021.
For students who take an undergratuate loan after 1 Sept 2012
Repayments of loans start in the April after you leave higher education, and only once you start earning over £25,000. Repayments will depend on the amount you earn, not the amount you borrowed.
You will repay 9% of your earnings above £25,000.
Your employer will take repayments from your salary during any pay period where your earnings before tax are over the weekly or monthly threshold.
By pay period, we mean each time you receive your salary. This could be every:
week
four weeks
calendar month.
The earnings threshold is:
£494 a week
£2,143 a month
£25,000 a year.
You pay 9% of your income over the threshold.
For example, if you are paid monthly and earn £2,400 before tax per month you would repay 9% of the difference between what you earn and what the threshold is:
So your monthly student loan repayment would be £23.
Find more details on how repayments will work, and what you can expect from the SLC.
For students who take an undergraduate loan before 1 Sept 2012
Repayments of loans start in the April after you leave higher education, and only once you start earning over £18,935. Repayments will depend on the amount you earn, not the amount you borrowed.
You will repay 9% of your earnings above £18,935.
Find more details on how repayments will work, and what you can expect from the SLC.
Further information, including a wide range of forms and guides, is available at GOV.UK
The College has tried to give students an early opportunity to begin their research of student funding. Although every effort has been made to ensure that information provided is both helpful to prospective candidates and accurate at the time of its publication, it is possible that some information may be outdated or superseded before the start of the 2021-22 academic year.
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