Finance

Tuition Fees & Student Loans

Your contribution to tuition fees and your living costs will be the two main costs you have to meet. The fees and support available are dependent on your circumstances:

England & Wales
Since 1998 students from England & Wales starting full-time higher education have had to contribute towards their tuition fees. Full-time students may get all or part of their tuition fees paid, but how much you get depends on your income and that of your family.

Your Local Education Authority (LEA) will tell you how much, if anything, you or your family will have to contribute to your fees. They will also indicate the maximum amount of help available to you for living costs e.g. loans, grants, bursaries, etc.

You will need to contact the Local Education Authority (LEA) in the area in which you live, not the area in which you will study, if this is different.

Full details can be found on the Department for Education & Skills website:
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/studentsupport/students/index.shtml

Scotland
Students normally resident in Scotland have to make their application for support through the Student Awards Agency for Scotland.

Full details can be found by visiting their website:
http://www.saas.gov.uk/

European Union
If you are a national of a European Union country, you may get support for your tuition fees on a similar basis to students from England & Wales. If you are applying through UCAS (Universities & Colleges Admissions Service), you will be sent an application form for help with tuition fees when you are offered a place on a course.

Students who do not apply through UCAS will be able to get an application form either from their college, or will be sent one by the University.

Full details can be found on the Department for Education & Skills website:
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/studentsupport/eustudents/index.shtml

As an EU student you will not be eligible for a student loan, supplementary grant, hardship loan or support from the University hardship funds.

International
Tuition fee details for Non-European Union students can be found on the main Birmingham City University website:
http://www.uce.ac.uk/web2/international/fees.html

Alternatively, please contact the tic using the contact details below.

Part-time & Postgraduate students
Fees and support vary from course to course, according to your particular circumstances. Please contact the tic (details below) for further information.

Technology Innovation Centre
Millennium Point
Curzon Street
Birmingham
B4 7XG

Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5400
Fax: +44 (0)121 331 5401
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