Fees, Funding and Finance

Information for FULL-TIME undergraduate applicants

Please note if you have already attained a qualification which is equal to or higher than your proposed course of study there may be no funding available to you.

If you have studied at Higher Education level in the past but not attained a qualification your funding may be restricted.

For more information please see the section regarding Equivalent Level qualifications and previous study

If you are applying for your first full-time undergraduate course (including bachelor degrees, foundation degrees, HNDs and HNCs) the information in the following pages should be of interest to you.

Please note no details have yet been placed on this website regarding student funding for 2011/12, as the government has not yet announced the level of funding available to students for that year. Please check back at a later date for updated details.

In this section:

Funding available from the government:  

Loans and Grants

• Grants and Loans for Living Costs
• Tuition Fees and Tuition Fee Loans
• Disabled Students' Allowance
• Financial Assessment

Funding available from University of Bolton:

• University of Bolton Scholarships
  • Bolton Scholarship
    • Bolton Scholarship Partners
  • Excellence Scholarship
  • Care-Leavers Scholarship
  • Vice Chancellor's Award
• Bolton Bursary
• Access to Learning Fund

Financial Advice from the University of Bolton

• Tips and Hints for Avoiding Debt
• Bank Accounts and Insurance
• How to Pay

Funding for EU students:

For details of funding available for EU students please follow the link below:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/EducationAndLearning/UniversityAndHigherEducation/StudentFinance/StudentsFromOtherEUCountries/index.htm|

 Equivalent Level Qualifications 

Please note for courses commencing from September 2009 or later, if you already have a Higher Education (HE) qualification from an institution in the U.K. or elsewhere you will not be eligible for further student support under the regulations for a second equivalent or lower level HE qualification. This rule applies whether the previous qualification was: 

• Studied in the U.K. or elsewhere in the world 
• Self funded or publicly funded
• Studied on a full-time, full-time distance learning, compressed or part-time basis 
• Studied in a different subject to the course you are considering
• Studied in the past, however long ago   

The only groups of students and subject areas which may be exempt from the above regulation are shown at: 

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/funding/elq/SIVS_HEIs.pdf| 

For more general information regarding Equivalent Level Qualifications please visit: 

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/faq/elq.htm|

Previous study at Higher Education level 

Funding is available in general for the length of the course plus, if necessary, 1 extra year.

Any period of funding within an academic year is classed as 1 whole year's funding e.g. if you received funding for 1 semester, then suspended studies, the extra year would have been used up

If you exceed 1 additional year, funding will be restricted at the beginning of the further study period

Restricted funding usually means maintenance loan only, no tuition fee loan, no maintenance grant

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