Fees and financial support - international students

The tuition fee for your course, which is listed on the relevant course pages of our website and will be confirmed in any offer letter you are sent, contributes to providing the learning resources, staff contact time and support services that we provide.

Before you travel to the UK to begin your studies, you must ensure that you have sufficient funds to cover your academic fees and living expenses. It is generally impossible to make arrangements for financial support once you have left your own country. While most students pay for their own fees and living expenses, there is some financial support available for studying in the UK from a number of sources.

If you are on a multi-year course, for example an undergraduate degree, then you should budget for a likely increase of between 3 and 5% for each further year of study with us on the same degree. The fees rise each year to allow for a combination of factors, including inflation. However, the percentage rise is not necessarily the same as the rate of inflation in any one year, because inflation is just one factor of many which are considered when we set our fees. Any changes for the following academic year will ordinarily be confirmed by 1 January each year.

You can find out about sources of funding in your home country from your local British Council office, your local Ministry of Education or local universities and colleges.

The British Council website features information on UK government schemes for postgraduate study such as the British Chevening Scholarships, Commonwealth Scholarships and the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (ORSAS). You should apply for these scholarship schemes well before you arrive in the UK.

If you are from the United States, then you can apply for a Federal Loan. For further information, please see the US Federal Loans information.

Find out about our international scholarships

• Undergraduate scholarships
• Postgraduate scholarships

Other sources of funding

• British Council - Funding your studies
• Chevening Scholarships
• Commonwealth Scholarships
• Rotary Foundation Grants
• Benjamin A Gilman International Scholarship: scholarships for US undergraduate students on Study Abroad programmes
• British Federation of Women Graduates Scholarships

The University has a range of procedures and regulations covering student fees:

• Student Fee Payment and Enrolment Regulations 2018/19
• Student Fee Payment and Enrolment Regulations 2019/20
• Student Fee Payment and Enrolment Regulations 2020/21
• Student Fee Payment and Enrolment Regulations 2021/22
• Student Fee Payment and Enrolment Regulations 2022/23