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Your student finance online account - check payment dates, track an application, change details, reset password, find customer reference numbers

Sign in to your student loan repayment account - check your balance, make regular or one-off repayments, or let SLC know if your details have changed

Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments.

• Overview

  You may be able to borrow money to help pay for university or college…

• New full-time students

  You can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan and Maintenance Loan if your course…

• Continuing full-time students

  What you’re eligible for depends on when your course starts. If your…

• Part-time students

  You may be able to get a loan if your part-time course has a ‘course…

• Extra help

  Check on the student finance calculator to see what extra help you might…

• Eligibility

  Whether you qualify for student finance depends on: your university or…

• Apply

  Find out how to apply for student finance. Parents or partners of students…

Apply online for student finance - online applications for student finance including Tuition Fee Loans, Maintenance Loans and Grants.

Contact details for Student Finance England - including complaints and student finance appeals, Advanced Learner Loan.

The home of Student Loans Company on GOV.UK. We are a non-profit making government-owned organisation that administers loans and grants to students in colleges and universities in the UK.

• Updated: 23 June 2023

How to confirm your income and support a student's application for loans or grants - when to submit, which tax year, and change your details.

When you start repaying your student loan, your monthly repayments, what to do if you have 2 jobs or are self-employed, how to get a refund if you've overpaid.

Student finance calculator - get a quick estimate of what student loans, grants, bursaries and other funding you could get - for full-time, part-time and EU students

Guidance and forms for Income Tax. Including how to check your records, rates and reliefs, refunds and pensions.

• Updated: 8 February 2024

Get a postgraduate master's loan to help fund a full-time or part-time master's degree: find out if you're eligible and how much you can get.

Guidance on how to support your child or partner’s student finance application and which forms you need to complete.

How to apply for student finance - when to apply, deadlines, proof of identity, parents, income, change an application.

You can request a refund if your income for a previous tax year was below the annual repayment threshold.

Disabled Students' Allowance is extra money for higher education students - DSA1 forms, eligibility, how to apply, needs assessment.

Download Student Finance England application forms and guidance notes - including forms PN1, PR1, PFF2, CYI and DSA1.

Check if you're eligible for a student loan, find out how much you can get, how to apply and when you start repaying.

Postgraduate funding - find grants, loans, studentships and scholarships.

Advanced Learner Loan and the Bursary Fund help with college or training course costs - funding, how to apply, application forms, repayments

If your child or partner is applying for student finance, you may be asked to support their application by giving us details about your household income. This is so they can get as much student finance as possible.

• Updated: 24 May 2024