Your Student Finance will be your main source of income whilst you're at university so it's important to know it well!
So what is student finance? Student finance is there to help you with the two main costs of studying:
The majority of UK students will have the cost of their Tuition Fees and living expenses met by applying for financial support online, via their relevant Student Finance websites. What you are entitled to will depend upon your individual circumstances, where you live, what you are studying, and at what level.
Click on the tabs below to find out more about what you could be entitled to, and when you've done that test yourself with our student finance jargon buster game (below):
- Tuition Fees
- Living costs (often referred to as Maintenance costs)
The majority of UK students will have the cost of their Tuition Fees and living expenses met by applying for financial support online, via their relevant Student Finance websites. What you are entitled to will depend upon your individual circumstances, where you live, what you are studying, and at what level.
Click on the tabs below to find out more about what you could be entitled to, and when you've done that test yourself with our student finance jargon buster game (below):
Quiz Time!
All clued up on your specific student finance entitlements but still struggling to get your head around the lingo? Test your knowledge with our Student Finance 101 game. It's fun and stupidly addictive - simply match the descriptions to their corresponding words to clear the screen, and when you're done with that try beating your own best time:
Still struggling to get your head around the jargon? If you want to find out more about Student Finance then try the following:
- Visit the Student Finance Zone on the Student Room website; it's packed with information on student finance including how and when to apply, how to access grants, getting paid, and repaying your student loan.
- Check out the dedicated You Tube channels for Student Finance Wales and Student Finance England which have a series of one minute videos that explain your entitlements in further detail.
- Get Social! Click here to follow Student Finance Wales & Student Finance England on Twitter. Click here to like their pages on Facebook: Student Finance Wales; Student Finance England.
- Ask an Expert! Click here to drop Money@CampusLife an email.