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Tuition Fee Loan

The Tuition Fee Loan offered for 2025/26 will be up to £9,535. In 2026/27 this will increase to £9,790.

Living Cost (Maintenance) Loan

The maximum maintenance loan you will be able to apply for in 2025/26 is £10,544. You can receive some of the loan without having a household income assessment carried out, but if your household income is around £62,000 or below you can receive a higher rate of loan.

For 2026/27 the maximum loan will increase to £10,830

If you decide to stay at home and live with your parents while you are a student, the amount of loan you can receive is less: 

Health Sciences courses - Nursing (including Graduate Entry Nursing), Midwifery, Physiotherapy, Nutrition and Dietetics

In addition to the funding above you may be entitled to funding from through the NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF)

You may be able to access funding if you already hold a degree or higher level award - please refer to our ELQ factsheet 

The amount you can borrow depends on the course intensity and your household income. In order to be eligible for the loans, you must be studying at least 25% of an equivalent full-time course in the relevant year. 

The tuition fee loan of up to £7,151 is not based on household income, but the maintenance loan is.

Students starting in September 2025 and continuing students who started their course before September 2025 can apply for the loans by applying online at the    -  information below about the course title to use when applying.

There is no age limit for applying for the fee loan but you will need to be under 60 on the first day of the academic quarter you commence the course in; eg 1 September for courses starting September to November, to qualify for a maintence loan.

When you apply for your student loans you will need to select one of the generic course titles below as part of the application process. Please select the one that is most relevant to your course.

• Biological Sciences (part time)
• Computer Science (part time)
• Creative and Professional Writing (part time)
• Engineering (part time)
• Health Care Studies (Nursing) (Top up)
• Health Care studies (Top up) degree
• Humanistic Counselling Practice (part time)
• Mathematical Sciences (part time)
• Midwifery Studies (Top up)
• Physical Sciences (part time)
• Subject allied to Medicine (part time)
• Techology (part time)
• Undergraduate course (part time)
• Veterninary Sciences, Agricultural and Related Subjects (part time)