International students

Advice and guidance for international students who are looking to pay their tuition fees.

Immigration and visas

If you are an international student who requires a visa to study in the UK, you must ensure you have enough funds available to cover your tuition fees and living expenses. This is a requirement of current UK immigration rules.

We are obliged to inform the United Kingdom Visas and Immigration (UKVI) about any student covered by the immigration rule who is withdrawn from their programme of study due to non-payment of fees.

Student Immigration Service

Defaulting on payment and the collection policy

Paying tuition fees

Your tuition fees must be paid in full on or before matriculation at the start of each new academic year, unless you are paying in instalments. The payment methods available to you will depend on who is paying for your tuition fees.

Self-funded student payment methods

Externally-funded student payment methods

Exchange rates and advance payment

All tuition fees are charged in pound sterling because this is the legal currency in Scotland.

If you wish to pay in a different currency then you can use our payment services which offer competitive exchange rates. These rates are guaranteed at the time of the transaction. The payments sent using these services are then given to the University in pound sterling.

If you chose to use another method (other than our payment services) and are paying in a different currency then you must ensure enough funds are sent to cover transfer and transactional costs charged by the payment service used.  

If you are considering studying overseas then you need to be aware, and willing to assume the risk, that currency exchange rates can fluctuate considerably. This could result in a much higher cost of education than you originally anticipate.

You may choose to make an advance payment in full if you need to take currency exchange rates into consideration. 

Pay using Tuition Payment

Pay by bank transfer or online payment using Convera Globalpay

Find funding

You can find information about possible funding for international students on the scholarships and student funding site.

Scholarships and student funding

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