Apply for Undergraduate Student Funding

Tuition Fees

Tuition Fee Loans are available to cover your tuition fee, up to a maximum £9,535 for study in Wales. 

Maintenance Support 

Maintenance support is also available towards your living costs

Total support available in 2025/26 

• £12,345 (if living elsewhere)
• £10,480 (if living in parental home)
• £1,000 maintenance grant available to all eligible students

Additional means-tested grant for households incomes below £59,200

Maintenance loan available to top up the level of grant support to the total support.

You can apply online at Student Finance Wales from March 2025 and it is recommended that you apply early to give student finance plenty of time to process your application.

Special Support Grant 2025/2026

If eligible for Special Support Grant, you will get the same level of grant but a higher rate of loan of up to £5,670 (elsewhere) or £4,740 (parental home).  In addition, the first £5,161 of the grant doesn’t count as income when you work out other income-related benefits or tax credits.

Tuition Fee Loan

A tuition fee loan is available to cover your fees, up to a maximum of £9,535.

Maintenance Loan in 2025/2026 - the maximum you can receive is:

• Living away from home (outside of London): £10,554, or £12,019 if eligible to receive certain benefits*
• Living at home: £8,877, or £10,473 if eligible to receive certain benefits*

*You might be able to get extra amount of Maintenance Loan to help towards your living costs if any of the following apply while you’re on your course:

• you’re a single parent or single foster parent of a child or young person under 20 who is in full-time education below higher-education level or on an approved training course;
• you have a partner who is also a full-time student and one or both of you is responsible for a child or young person under 20 who is in full-time education below higher-education level or on an approved training course;
• you have a disability and qualify for the Disability Living Allowance, Disability Premium or Severe Disability Premium;
• you qualify for Personal Independence Payment or Armed Forces Independence Payment;
• you’re deaf and qualify for Disabled Students’ Allowances;
• you have been treated as incapable of work for a continuous period of at least 28 weeks;
• you have a disability and qualify for income-related Employment and Support Allowance; or
• you’re waiting to go back to a course having taken agreed time out from that course due to an illness or caring responsibility that has now ended

You can apply online at Student Finance England and it is recommended that you apply early to give student finance plenty of time to process your application.

Tuition fee Loan

A tuition fee loan is available to cover your fees, up to a maximum of £9250.

Maintenance Loan

The maximum you can receive in 2024/2025 is:

• Living away from home: £6,776

If you are in receipt of a Grant the amount of loan you receive is reduced.* 

Maintenance Grant

The maximum you can receive in 2024/2025 is £3,475.

*In Northern Ireland, if you receive the full grant of £3,475 you will receive £4,661 loan. This could be more if you receive a Special Support Grant. 

You can apply online at Student Finance Northern Ireland.

Tuition Fee Loan

A tuition fee loan is available to cover the full cost of your fees, up to a maximum of £9,250.

Maintenance Support

There is a package of loans and bursaries available. The amounts available will depend on whether you are assessed as a Young Student or an Independent Student

Further information and to apply go to Student Awards Agency Scotland.