If you take out a tuition fee loan your tuition fees will be paid directly to us, so you don't need to worry about paying your course fees while you are studying.
Loan information for new full-time students
If you're a part-time student, you may be able to get a loan if your course has a ‘course intensity’ of 25% or more. ‘Course intensity’ measures how much of your course you complete each year compared to an equivalent full-time course.
You can work this out by comparing your module credits with the number of module credits a full-time student will study. You’ll be asked how many credits you’ll study when you apply for the loan. Check with us if you’re not sure.
Loan information for part-time students
Condensed Course – January start date
If you’re a student funded by Student Finance England (SFE), Student Finance NI (SFNI) or Student Finance Wales (SFW), tuition fee payments will be made to the university in January, May and October for each year of study for a January start.
Even in the final year of study after a student’s completion of a course, the final payment to the university will be in October. Tuition fee payments from the Student Loans Company in Scotland will be made to the university in January.
If for any reason we do not receive your student finance, the obligation remains with you to pay your tuition fees.
Foundation Year Funding
Foundation courses are 4-year undergraduate courses that consist of 1 Foundation Year and 3 Degree years. Foundation years are not 1-year courses that stand on their own but are an integral part of a 4-year Degree programme.
In order to receive funding for these types of course, you must always make the Student Loans Company aware that you are completing a 4-year Degree course with a Foundation Year attached. This is the same whether you choose to continue within the Coventry University Group or progress elsewhere.
Problems can arise if students decide to progress outside of the Coventry University Group as other institutions may not offer four-year courses with a foundation year. This means that this will not be reflected in their student finance course list. In this situation, you may still be able to get funding, but will be required to contact your new institution to request that a 4-year option including a foundation year is added to the course list.
Otherwise, you may be liable for your foundation fees. Unfortunately, Coventry University Group does not have any control over these requests and are unable to support/guarantee this option. If you do change institutions and funding is not available for the foundation year, there are no timeframes for SFE to pull back the foundation year funding and this can happen at any time throughout the 4-year degree programme.