Loans

Postgraduate Master's Loan

Master's students can apply for a loan from Student Finance England to help with tuition fees and living costs.

Loan amount

You can't apply for a Master's loan if:

You're on a flexible mode course.
You're studying a PG Cert or PG Dip course.
You're studying an Integrated Master’s or any top-up from a lower level course. Check out Undergraduate funding instead.
You received a Postgraduate Master’s Loan in the past. Unless you left your previous course due to illness, bereavement or another serious personal reason, you won't get an extra loan to repeat a part of your course or start a different Master’s. Contact the Student Advice Service for help.
You already have a Master’s degree or a qualification that’s equivalent to a Master’s degree or higher.
You're studying M ARCH: Architecture and are eligible for undergraduate funding support. Check your eligibility with the Student Advice Service.

Student Finance England considers an academic year to be 12 months.

If your course includes a partial academic year, the total course duration is rounded up to the nearest full academic year.

Instalments are spread over this time period. This means that you may not get your instalments equally across your course.

Our 4-term courses starting in September and ending in December the next year have a course length of 1 year and 3 months.

The loan instalments will be:

Master's students must pay tuition fees in one of these ways:

Pay for a year in full before you enrol onto that year of the course.
Set up an instalment plan. Our payment schedule does not align with the Master’s Loan payment schedule. Find out more about how your instalment plan will work.