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Guidance on claiming Universal Credit if you're a student.

• Updated: 12 September 2024

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

• Overview

  You may be eligible for student finance to help you study at university or…

• Eligibility

  You may be eligible for student finance including: a Tuition Fee Loan to…

• New full-time students

  If your course starts on or after 1 August 2016, you can apply for: a…

• Continuing full-time students

  What you’re eligible for depends on when your course starts. If your…

• Part-time students

  If your part-time course has a ‘course intensity’ of 25% or more, you may…

• Extra financial help

  You may be able to get extra financial help, for example, if you’re: on a…

• Apply

  Find out how to apply for student finance. Parents or partners of students…

• Updated: 9 July 2025

• Updated: 16 July 2025

Apply for a Student visa to study in the UK if you're 16 or over - eligibility, extend or switch your visa, how much it costs and how long it takes

Eligible biology, chemistry, physics, computing and languages teachers can claim back student loan repayments in 2025.

• Updated: 1 April 2025

• Updated: 16 July 2025

If you complete a Self Assessment tax return, you must use it to tell HMRC about your student or postgraduate loan deductions.

• Updated: 17 June 2025

• Updated: 6 April 2025

Check how much student finance you could get - get a quick estimate of what student loans, grants, bursaries and other funding you could get - for full-time, and part-time students