Funding and finance for students
Register, apply for and manage student finance. Loans, sponsorship, getting help with studying if you're a parent or carer.
Services
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Student finance login
Your student finance online account - check payment dates, track an application, change details, reset password, find customer reference numbers
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Apply online for student finance
Apply online for student finance - online applications for student finance including Tuition Fee Loans, Maintenance Loans and Grants.
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Student finance for undergraduates
Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments.
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Student finance calculator
Student finance calculator - get a quick estimate of what student loans, grants, bursaries and other funding you could get - for full-time, part-time and EU students
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Repaying your student loan
When you start repaying your student loan, your monthly repayments, what to do if you have 2 jobs or are self-employed, how to get a refund if you've overpaid.
Guidance and regulation
- Checking the status of your student finance application
- Contact SLC - repayment enquiries
- Universal Credit and students
- Student finance: how you're assessed and paid
- Getting your first student finance payment
News and communications
- ESFA Update: 22 March 2023
- What support is available for students with a learning difficulty, mental health condition or disability?
- Industrial action at SLC on Wednesday 15 March
- Welcome back for Honduran Chevening Scholars
- Student finance to be radically transformed from 2025
Research and statistics
- Over-repayment of income contingent loans through PAYE: FY15-16 to 21-22
- Advanced Learner Loans paid in England AY 2022/23, Aug to Jan
- Advanced learner loans paid in England: 2022 to 2023
- Estranged students & care leavers by HEP: AYs 2017/18 - 2022/23
- Early-in-year student withdrawal notifications: academic year 2018/19 to 2022/23 up to 29/11/2022
Policy papers and consultations
- Lifelong loan entitlement
- Higher education student finance 2023 to 2024: equality analysis
- Higher education student finance 2022 to 2023: equality analysis
- Higher education student finance 2021 to 2022: equality analysis
- Review of the student loan sale programme
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- SLC Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022
- Independent Assessors’ Annual Report 2021/22
- SLC Supplier Spend November 2022
- SLC Supplier Spend October 2022
- SLC Supplier Spend September 2022