The University of Edinburgh

We offer a single point of contact for prospective and enrolled students in finding the monetary assistance and information they need in order to pursue their education.

The Scholarships and Financial Support Team make students acquainted with the many scholarships, bursaries and other funds that are accessible. The fees and Student Support Team precisely assess and record tuition fees, research costs and sponsorship information and assess student fee status.

Our work includes:

• offering help for students funded by SAAS, STC, research councils and other funding bodies.
• managing student support and loan instalments.
• cooperating with government funding bodies.
• informing students and staff on all matters in connection tuition fees and funding.
• managing the discretionary, childcare and travel funds.
• assessing students fee status, i.e. suitability for home/EU or overseas fees
• verifying Canadian and US loan applications.

What you can expect from us

You can expect a quick response to student loan queries and acknowledgements do all written questions within 7 days. Where a response is needed, we aim to either answer within this time or to advise when a reply can be expected.

You can expect truthful, objective advice, guidance and details allowing you to make a knowledgeable decision as to the further action. We aim to offer a consistent service are devoted to fair treatment for all.

How and when you will receive your maintenance loans and how the university the instalments of tuition fees.

If you have applied for your student grant before the publicised deadlines, you will obtain your maintenance loan and personal loan payments from the Student Loans Company (SLC) straight into your bank account on the girls day semester 1.

We provided you have the following:

• Registered at the University
• Finalised your application for funding and met all SLC requests for details.
• Remember to sign the declaration

We are required to confirm your attendance at university before SLC will release your student loan instalments. We do this by loading the file into the student documentation system and matching against a students' registered reputation. We return electronic files confirming students' presence daily. This confirmation releases your loan payments to your bank account within 3/4 days after the beginning of semester 1.

Tuition fees

You must apply to your finance body for a tuition fee loan each academic session and the university gets a notification of the amount of tuition fee loan applied for the daily electronic files from the SLC. Remember sign your declaration or else the university will not receive confirmation of your loan. SLC will make an instalment to the university in 3 instalments. At the beginning of each AG accountability period (September, January, April) the university is needed to confirm your ongoing attendance and this is returned by means of electronic files to the SLC.