Tuition fee loans

All eligible students from the UK can study without paying up-front by taking out a tuition fee loan.

Eligibility criteria for tuition fee loans includes factors like where you live, the course you choose to study and where you study. It can affect your entitlement if you have any previous higher education study.

The government, via The Student Loans Company, will lend you the money to cover the full cost of your tuition fees for every year of your course. Features of the loan include:

  • the government pay the loan directly to your university, not to you
  • you only start to pay back the loan when you are earning over *£25,000 p.a. (before tax and other deductions)
  • you can apply for a tuition fee loan from your student finance body

*applies to new borrowers starting courses from September 2023