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Financial Assistance

Money

Students can often have challenges managing money: this may be because it’s the first time they have had to budget for themselves, or their income might not meet their living costs.

The team of Welfare Advisers in the Advice and Counselling Service provide confidential, professional money advice for all Queen Mary students, including prospective students and applicants. They can check if students are getting all of the income they are eligible for, check eligibility for Student Finance and home tuition fee status, help with student finance applications, assist with applications for funding for repeat periods of study, help students plan a personal budget and assist students to apply for hardship funding.  

Welfare Advisers can also advise students who need to leave their family home unexpectedly and need emergency financial support, and students who are independent of their family such as care experienced or estranged students, or who have a forced migration background. Students with a disability or long-term ill health, and students with children may be eligible for additional funding. They can also advice students who have caring responsibilities. There is separate financial guidance for international students.

Tuition Fees and Funding

Like all universities, Queen Mary University of London charges two different rates of tuition fees for each individual programme of study: Home and Overseas. This is known as ‘fee status’. The regulations that define which groups of students all UK universities must charge the 'home' rate of fee to, are set out in legislation made by the UK government. Fee status is decided by the Admissions Team at Queen Mary. How they make this assessment is explained on the Admissions webpage.

Home undergraduate students are generally entitled to Government Student Finance.

Welfare Advisers, in the Advice and Counselling Service can advise applicants, offer holders and current students on their eligibility for 'home' fee status and Student Finance.  

Financial Assistance Fund

The Queen Mary Financial Assistance Fund is open to all current students studying at Queen Mary, ordinarily based on our London campuses experiencing unforeseen costs and hardship.

Queen Mary Bursary

The Queen Mary Bursary helps undergraduate students who are in most need of financial support with the costs of studying. It is income assessed and non-repayable. Students don’t need to apply separately for it, they just need to apply to their regional student funding authority for income-assessed UK government financial support. 

Scholarships

There are a number of sources of funding available for Undergraduate, Masters and PhD students including a significant package of Queen Mary bursaries and scholarships in a range of subject areas, as well as external sources of funding.

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