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Student finance

If you live in England, Wales or Northern Ireland

If you will be applying for student finance to help with tuition fees for your course and living costs, you can make the process easier by allowing us to share some of your application details with your student finance company.

We would like to share your information with the Student Loans Company. This information will be used by the Student Loans Company in connection with any finance application which you may choose to make in the future.

When the application process for student finance opens, if you have requested a reminder we will contact you by electronic means to tell you to log in to your UCAS application and opt in to share your details with the student finance company. Your application for student finance will then be pre-populated with information from your UCAS application, such as personal details and course choice. This will make applying for a student loan much quicker.

You can opt out of this process at any time once we have processed your UCAS application.

If you live in Scotland

2013 entry: if you will be applying for student finance to help with tuition fees for your course and living costs, you can make the process easier by allowing us to share some of your application details with the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS).

This information will be used by SAAS in connection with any finance application which you may choose to make in the future.

If you have an area of permanent residence in Scotland, the student finance section of Apply will ask you three new questions:

  1. Are you going to apply for student finance?
  2. Do you agree that UCAS can share your details with the Student Awards Agency for Scotland?
  3. Do you agree that UCAS can send you a reminder of when and how to apply for student finance?

2012 entry: If you live in Scotland the Student Awards Agency for Scotland, SAAS, provides a range of financial support for your course as follows:

  • If you study in Scotland you may be eligible for support with your tuition fees and living costs in the form of loans, which you pay back and bursaries, which you don't repay.
  • If you study elsewhere in the UK, you will pay your own fees, or you can take a student loan to pay all or some of these fees. You may also be eligible for support towards your living costs.

Applications for student finance in 2012/13 are available online in April 2012 and you should apply by 30 June 2012 to guarantee your funding is in place at the start of your course.

If you live in the EU (non-UK) or outside the EU

2013 entry: there is a new page in Apply giving information and links about applying for student finance. There are no questions to answer, but you'll be asked to confirm you've read the details before you can mark the section as complete.