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.

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Services

1. Student finance login

   Your student finance online account - check payment dates, track an application, change details, reset password, find customer reference numbers

2. Student finance

   Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments

3. Apply online for student finance

   Apply online for student finance - online applications for student finance including Tuition Fee Loans, Maintenance Loans and Grants.

4. 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

5. 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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Guidance and regulation

1. Contact SLC - repayment enquiries
   • Detailed guide
   • 12 February 2020
   • Student Loans Company
2. Universal Credit and students
   • Detailed guide
   • 11 April 2019
   • Department for Work and Pensions
3. Overseas earnings thresholds for Plan 1 student loans
   • Guidance
   • 4 December 2019
   • Student Loans Company
4. Studying in the UK: guidance for EU students
   • Detailed guide
   • 31 January 2020
   • Department for Education
5. Overseas earnings thresholds for Plan 2 student loans
   • Guidance
   • 24 May 2019
   • Student Loans Company

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News and communications

27 February 2020 — Press release

Student Loans Company to refund over-repaying customers

Student Loans Company

1. Student Loans Company commences strategic partner procurement
   • 26 February 2020
   • Student Loans Company
   • Press release
2. 45 Malaysian Chevening scholars return from UK
   • 26 February 2020
   • World news story
3. Paramedic students will get £5,000 support payment each year
   • 11 February 2020
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • News story
4. Professor Andrew Wathey CBE appointed interim Chair of the Student Loans Company
   • 31 January 2020
   • Student Loans Company
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Advanced Learner Loans Paid in England, AY 2019/20, Aug to Oct
   • 23 January 2020
   • Student Loans Company
   • Official statistics
2. Advanced learner loans paid in England: 2019 to 2020
   • 23 January 2020
   • Student Loans Company
   • Official statistics
3. Advanced Learner Loans Paid in England, AY 2018/19, Aug to Jul
   • 28 November 2019
   • Student Loans Company
   • Official statistics
4. Student Support for Higher Education in England 2019
   • 21 November 2019
   • Student Loans Company
   • National statistics
5. Student Support for Higher Education in Wales 2019
   • 21 November 2019
   • Student Loans Company
   • National statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. 16 to 19 discretionary bursary fund: allocation methodology
   • 10 September 2019
   • Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 23 May 2019
2. Changes to healthcare education funding
   • 31 May 2018
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Policy paper
3. Postgraduate master’s loans: equality analysis
   • 10 May 2017
   • Department for Education
   • Impact assessment
4. Postgraduate doctoral loans: equality analysis
   • 8 March 2017
   • Department for Education
   • Impact assessment
5. Part-time maintenance loans policy: equality analysis
   • 8 March 2017
   • Department for Education
   • Impact assessment

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. SLC Supplier Spend January 2020
   • 5 March 2020
   • Student Loans Company
   • Transparency
2. SLC Supplier Spend December 2019
   • 5 March 2020
   • Student Loans Company
   • Transparency
3. SLC Supplier Spend November 2019
   • 5 March 2020
   • Student Loans Company
   • Transparency
4. SLC Supplier Spend September 2019
   • 20 December 2019
   • Student Loans Company
   • Transparency
5. SLC Supplier Spend October 2019
   • 20 December 2019
   • Student Loans Company
   • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Department for Education
2. Education & Skills Funding Agency
3. Department of Health & Social Care
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
5. HM Revenue & Customs

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1. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
2. Department for Work & Pensions
3. Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
4. Department for International Development
5. HM Treasury
6. Ministry of Defence
7. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
8. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

1. Student Loans Company

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1. Financial help for students who are parents or carers
2. Student grants, bursaries and scholarships
3. Student loans