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Student Loans in Northern Ireland: 2024 to 2025

Statistics of Northern Irish domiciled student loans borrowers and the change in debt in the financial year.

• From: Student Loans Company
• Published: 19 June 2025
• Last updated: 2 July 2026 — See all updates

Applies to Northern Ireland

• Publication for England
• Publication for Scotland
• Publication for Wales

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Student Loans in Northern Ireland: 2024 to 2025: Correction note

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Student Loans for Higher Education in Northern Ireland: Financial Year 2024-25

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Student support for higher education in Northern Ireland 2025

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Income Contingent Student Loan repayment plans & interest rates and calculations (Northern Ireland)

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Student Loans for Higher Education in Northern Ireland: Financial Year 2024-25

This publication provides statistics on loan outlays, repayments of loans and borrower activity for Northern Ireland domiciled students studying in Higher Education (HE) and European Union (EU) students studying in Northern Ireland.

The figures cover Income Contingent Loans (ICR), which were introduced in 1998/99, for financial years up to and including 2024-25.

Published 19 June 2025

Last updated 2 July 2026 — Show all updates

1. 2 July 2026

   Table 3A (i) Northern Ireland & EU: Number of ICR Student Loans borrowers (000s) An error was found in the ‘Future cohorts’ calculation on row 41. This figure has reduced from 52.5 to 39.8. This change has impacted the total row for ‘All ICR Borrowers, including future cohorts’, where denoted. Table 3A (ii) Northern Ireland & EU: Percentage of ICR Student Loans borrowers (%) The %’s for the ‘All ICR Borrowers including future cohorts’ on row 41, derived from Table 3A (i) have been amended accordingly.

2. 19 June 2025

   First published.