Undergraduate funding from Student Finance (Student Loans Company)

The Student Loans Company (SLC) pays your tuition fee loan directly to the University. You need to apply for tuition fee loans to Student Finance England, Wales or Northern Ireland for each year of your course.

How to apply for a tuition fee loan 

Submit your application to Student Finance England, Wales or Northern Ireland 

You can apply for a tuition fee loan for the upcoming academic year from February on (for example, you can apply in February 2025 for funding for the academic year 2025-26). You should apply for a loan by 25 June to ensure that the funding is in place for the start of your programme.  

The University cannot apply for a tuition fee loan on your behalf. 

SLC will confirm the loan to you and the University. You do not need to send the loan letter to the University. 

Apply for funding on the Student Finance England website 

Apply for funding on the Student Finance Wales website 

Apply for funding on the Student Finance Northern Ireland website 

Complete online registration and pay your student fees

As part of matriculation, you will need to complete online registration and either confirm your funding or arrange payment of your student academic fees. This is a required step in the registration process, and in most cases, you will be able to pay in instalments.

If your Student Loans Company (SLC) funding has not been confirmed before you begin registration, you will be asked to provide card details to continue with the registration process. These details will be used to set up an instalment plan for your student academic fees payments.

Once your funding is confirmed, if no fees are due from you, the instalment plan will be cancelled and any payments already made will be refunded. This may occur if your SLC application was submitted late and confirmation was not received before the first payment date. Please note, funding confirmation needs to be received at least 7 days before a payment is due to prevent the payment from being collected.

If your funding does not cover your full student academic fees amount, you can pay the remaining balance either in full or by instalments during online registration, or later through the MyFinance channel in MyEd once your invoice is available.

Where to find your financial information 

You can see your student fees account transactions like student and sponsor fee invoices, credit notes, payments received including scheduled instalment amounts and dates when you log into MyEd and go to My finance. 

Do you need help?

If you need to make a payment

You will be asked to:

  •  provide card details to continue with online registration if the award of the academic fees loan has not been confirmed by SLC
  • make a payment, or set up an instalment plan if the amount of the loan is less than the fees due

If you believe you should have full funding then please contact SLC first to find out more information before contacting the University. 

If your funding does not cover the full student academic fee amount, you can pay the remaining balance either by keeping the instalment plan set up during online registration or by paying the full amount later in MyFinance channel once you have registered and invoice has been issued.

How to pay for your part of the student academic fees in one payment

How to pay for your part of the student academic fees by instalment

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