Fees and bursaries

Approved tuition fee rates for continuing home students

* For academic year 2024/25, the University will meet the tuition fee liability from the Student Opportunity Fund. Arrangements for 2025/26 are to be confirmed.
** The University will meet half of the tuition fee liability from the Student Opportunity Fund
*** Internal staff only

The international fee will apply for EU students commencing programmes after academic session 2022/23, with the exception of Irish Nationals or those who can evidence settled status.

Students Referred to Study for Honours (QSFH) will have a tuition fee to pay calculated at the undergraduate standard part time credit price (as noted above) for all registered module credits.   This will be charged at the rate for the most recent academic session.  There is no entitlement to additional external student funding. An invoice will be issued immediately following registration and students will be advised on the payment deadline date.  All tuition fees must be paid in full for attendance at graduation and issue of certification.

Students Transferred to Part Time (TPT) for reassessment purposes will have a tuition fee to pay calculated at the undergraduate part time standard credit price (as noted above) for all registered module credits, charged at the fee rate for the academic year of study.  An invoice will be issued immediately following registration and students will be advised on payment dates.  Subject to previous study, you may qualify for student funding in the form of a maintenance loan and tuition fee loan.  Despite completing less than 120 credits, Student Finance regard Transferred to Part Time as a full study year and include it as part of your overall funding entitlement.  Students who don’t qualify for funding will be required to self-fund their study and make payment in accordance with the University’s scheduled payment dates.

For academic year 2025/2026 trainees who are starting courses in Physics will not need to be eligible for Student Finance to be eligible for the ITT bursary. All other trainees are only eligible for a bursary or scholarship if the trainee meets one or more of the definitions for being an ‘eligible’ student to receive grants and loans towards tuition fees or living costs, as set out in The Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011 (part 2 – eligible students). For further information, refer to Student finance eligibility – GOV.UK.

In addition, applicants may be eligible for a PGCE bursary if they hold a PhD, Master’s, first, 2:1 or 2:2 degree qualification, and have ‘home’ residency status and do not already hold QTS status.

Students in receipt of a Math’s or Computing Scholarship.

Students in receipt of a Scholarship must provide confirmation from the relevant body listed below and send this to [email protected].
 
Chemistry: Royal Society of Chemistry
Computing: BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT
Mathematics: Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Physics: Institute of Physics

Undergraduate bursaries are only available to students in their final year of BSc (Hons) Secondary Mathematics with QTS. There is no application process. Qualifying students will receive email communication requesting bank details and agreement to T&Cs immediately following enrolment.

A training bursary worth £40,000 is available to undergraduate veterans who have left full-time employment no more than 5 years before the start of their course. Veterans who are enrolled onto a course that leads to QTS in secondary mathematics which commences in September 2025 are eligible to receive the bursary. Veterans are required to provide evidence of their full-time employment from the:

• British Army
• Royal Air Force
• Royal Navy

The bursary is payable in equal instalments in the final two years of their course (£20,000 per year). Trainees cannot receive an undergraduate veteran teaching bursary and an undergraduate bursary.