View the ‘Student fees and maintenance loan increase: what you need to know’ information on the Government’s website.
Tuition fees
On 4 November 2024, the Government announced its intention to increase the tuition fee cap for UK undergraduate and Initial Teacher Training students studying in England to £9,535 for the 2025/26 academic year. This is an increase of £285 per year. The proposed increases to the tuition fee and maintenance loan caps need to be approved by Parliament before they can be confirmed.
The increase will not affect monthly student loan repayments after finishing university. For a student loan, the amount repaid depends on how much a student earns over the repayment threshold, not how much is borrowed.
Find out more about these changes on the Government's website.
Maintenance loans
The Government has also announced its intention to increase the maintenance loan cap for the 2025/26 academic year. The changes will apply to all students who qualify for a maintenance loan, with the greatest support being paid to students on household incomes of £25,000 or less.
Find out how much students are eligible for on the Government's website.
Frequently asked questions
The Government has announced it intends to increase tuition fees and maintenance loans in line with the current rate of inflation.
UK undergraduate and Initial Teacher Training students studying in England, including full time and part time students. International fee-paying students are not affected.
Parliament needs to approve the increases. If the increases are approved by Parliament, they will come into effect for the 2025/26 academic year.
Yes – if you originally applied for a different academic year but you have deferred entry then you will need to pay the increased fees for the 2025/26 academic year.
The Government has announced its intention increase tuition fees by £285 per year from £9,250 per year to £9,535 per year.
The full fee of £9,535 will be pro-rated according to how many credits you are studying in a year. For instance, a full-time undergraduate student studies 120 credits in a year. If you study 40 credits in a year, that is 33% of full-time credits. You would therefore pay 33% of £9,535.
The Government has also announced its intention to introduce lower tuition fee and tuition fee loan limits for foundation years in some subjects, for the academic year 2025/26. This applies to UK students studying a classroom-based foundation year in business, social science or humanities, at a higher education provider in England.
At UoN, this only applies to Arts and Humanities With Foundation Year (Y14F). Students studying this course would pay £5,760 for the first (foundation) year of your four-year degree. Then from your second year onwards, you would pay the latest fee applicable to UK undergraduates studying in England, which is subject to confirmation and not currently known.
The increase would not affect your monthly student loan repayments after finishing university. For a student loan, the amount you repay depends on how much you earn over the repayment threshold, not how much you borrowed.
Please contact our student enquiries team.
