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Friday, 14 March 2025
The deadline for student finance applications relating to the current academic year is Saturday 31 May 2025. You can also now start applying for the next academic year as well.

Funding for 2024-25

You can apply for Student Loans Company (SLC) funding for the current academic year (2024-25) within nine months of the first day of the academic year.

For undergraduate students who started their course in September 2024, the deadline for this year’s funding is Saturday 31 May 2025.

For postgraduate students looking to apply for a master’s or doctoral loan, you must apply within nine months of the first day of the last academic year of the course.

All students should check the table below for your course start date and the relevant application deadline:

Course start date Apply by 
Between 1 August and 31 December   31 May after your course started 
Between 1 January and 31 March  30 September after your course started
Between 1 April and 30 June 31 December after your course started 
Between 1 July and 31 July 31 March after your course started 


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Funding for 2025-26 

Undergraduate students can now also start applying for next year's (2025-26) student finance.

For more information visit the government’s student finance webpages.

If you have a question you can’t find the answer to, you can contact the Funding and Financial Support team.

Student Communications Officer

Communications and Marketing
University Park Campus
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone:+44 (0)115 82 32353
e: studentcommsoffice@nottingham.ac.uk