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This guidance explains how you can pay your tuition fees or your deposit.
This guidance explains how to:
Make a payment
Self-funded students
Self-funded students are those paying all or part of their fees through private means, usually family. If you are not self-funding, or only partially self-funding, there are different things you will need to do depending on if you are:
- a sponsored student
- funded by Student Finance England, or an equivalent regional authority
- receiving a scholarship or studentship
- receiving sponsorship from other sources
- receiving an NHS Bursary
If you are self-funding, to pay your fees:
- log on to your Portico account,
- access the My Money section, and
- select Student Statement – Tuition Fees.
Students with partial sponsorship
If you are partly sponsored and paying the remaining fees yourself, you must ensure that you pay by the instalment deadlines. If you don't pay the first instalment by the deadline, you may not be able to enrol.
Paying your tuition fees online or via bank transfer
If you have access to Portico, you must pay via Flywire, our payment portal.
Video of how to make a payment with Flywire
UCL does not charge any transaction fee but your card provider may do and this will be clearly detailed to you in the Flywire portal. Flywire will not offer American Express as a payment option for domestic payments.
Bank Transfer
You can no longer pay tuition fees via direct bank transfer. If you wish to pay via bank transfer, you can start the process by accessing the Flywire portal through the My Money section of Portico.
Video about international bank transfers with Flywire
Students who have a UCL Studentship (research), a UCL Scholarship or other departmental fee award
You don't need to provide us with written evidence of your funding. The relevant UCL department will pay your fee award directly to us. After the payment is approved, a sponsorship record will appear in Portico to show that you are not paying your own fees. This may not be showing in Portico when you pre/re-enrol, but you don't need to do anything because it should appear by 31 October.
Students in receipt of fee funding from Student Finance
If you've applied on time and your funding is confirmed, the Student Loans Company (SLC) will ask UCL's Student and Registry Services to confirm your registration. Once that's confirmed, Portico will show a sponsorship record for the amount of your fee loan. If you're only receiving the tuition fee loan, you'll need to submit your confirmation of loan document (University or College Payment Advice) to us. Otherwise, you won't need to provide written evidence of your loan, unless we ask you to. If you're also receiving a maintenance loan, the SLC will contact UCL to confirm your registration, which will initiate payment.
If you only receive partial funding from the SLC, please pay your remaining fees before the instalment deadline or you may not be enrolled.
Students in receipt of sponsorship from other sources
If you want us to invoice your non-UCL sponsor, you must provide us with written evidence of your sponsorship, before or during the enrolment period, and may also need to be done anually with re-enrolment. This should be an email from your sponsor or a sponsorship letter. Send it to us by email or bring it to us in person at enrolment. All evidence must include the following details:
- Student name
- UCL student number
- Amount or percentage of sponsorship
- Sponsor name, their postal address and email
If emailing your evidence to us, send it to fees.sponsor@ucl.ac.uk with the subject ‘Sponsorship evidence - STUDENT NUMBER’ (please ensure your UCL student number is quoted in the subject). We'll issue an invoice to your sponsor in Term 1 and they'll need to pay for the whole academic year within 28 days.
During busy periods, it can take us a few weeks to add your sponsorship to your record, so don't worry if you can't see your sponsorship details on Portico for a while. If they haven't appeared by 31 October, please contact us.
If the funds are paid directly to you or to UCL, without needing an invoice from us, your sponsorship information will not appear in Portico.
NHS Bursaries
Medical students expecting their fees to be paid by an NHS Bursary have to first apply for a bursary directly through the NHS. Applications must be made within 6 months of the start of the academic year. Failure to apply on time could result in you becoming personally liable for your fees.
For further assistance, contact the NHS student helpline on 0300 330 1345 or visit the NHS Bursary website.
Pay a deposit
All Postgraduate Taught programmes and the Eastman Dental Institute require applicants to pay a deposit. All deposits will be allocated against the first tuition fee instalment.
You must pay via Flywire, which is accessible through Portico.
Receipts
Receipts may be accessed from your Student Statement - Tuition Fees.
Refunds
Refunds will only be paid on request and are at our discretion. We try to process all refunds as soon as possible, but during busy periods your request may take 2 to 3 weeks to be processed.
You must not intentionally overpay your fees in order to obtain living costs or to circumvent any government regulation or restriction. Any payments intended for living costs will, upon receipt of a refund request, be returned to the original sender. UCL must abide by UK money laundering laws.
All authorised refunds are returned to source. Credit or debit card payments will be refunded back to the original payment card.
UCL will not refund any shortfalls due to exchange rate fluctuations, or offer compensation for any bank or other charges incurred.
Refund instructions with Portico access
Log in to Portico and follow these instructions:
- MyMoney
- Tuition Fees refund request
If your account is in credit and there are no outstanding sponsor invoices or other UCL debts on your account, you'll be able to apply for a refund and Student Fees will be automatically notified of this request.