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What happens to your Student Finance funding when you interrupt, withdraw, repeat study or transfer courses
This page contains information on:
- What happens to your Student Finance when you interrupt your studies
- What happens to your Student Finance when you withdraw from your studies
- What happens to your Student Finance when you repeat a year of your studies
- What happens to your Student Finance when you transfer to a different programme
- How to get help if you have further questions
Interrupting studies
When you interrupt your studies, your faculty will send a change of circumstance notification (CoC) to Student Finance to let them know.
Information about how interrupting your studies impacts your Student Finance funding is detailed on the Interrupting or withdrawing from your studies page.
Undergraduate students
Interrupting a year of studies will use up a year of your total tuition fee loan entitlement, unless there are 'compelling personal reasons' (CPR) for why you are interrupting.
Information on how to submit evidence of compelling personal reasons can be found on this page.
Postgraduate students
You cannot receive more than the maximum loan amount available, even if there are compelling personal reasons for your interruption.
Withdrawing from studies
When you withdraw from your studies, your faculty will send a change of circumstance notification (CoC) to Student Finance to let them know.
Information on how withdrawing from your studies impacts your Student Finance funding is detailed on the Interrupting or withdrawing from your studies page.
Undergraduate students
Withdrawing from studies will use up a year of your total tuition fee loan entitlement, unless there are 'compelling personal reasons' (CPR) for why you are withdrawing.
Information on how to submit evidence of compelling personal reasons can be found on this page.
Postgraduate students
If you withdraw from a Master's or PhD programme, you will only be able to get repeat funding for a new course if you have withdrawn from your previous course for compelling personal reasons.
Information on how to submit evidence of compelling personal reasons can be found on this page.
Repeating a year of your studies
When you repeat a year of studies, your faculty will send a change of circumstance notification (CoC) to Student Finance to let them know.
Repeating a year of studies will use up a year of your total tuition fee loan entitlement, unless there are 'compelling personal reasons' (CPR) for why you are repeating.
If you are repeating your final year, your faculty may need to send the CoC to Student Finance to tell them you are repeating before you can apply for funding.
Information on how to submit evidence of compelling personal reasons can be found on this page.
Transferring to a different programme
When you transfer to a different programme, your faculty will send a change of circumstance notification (CoC) to Student Finance to let them know.
If you are transferring to a longer programme for your final year, your faculty may have to send the CoC before you can apply for funding.
How to get help
If you are having difficulties with your Student Finance as a result of a change in your circumstance or have further questions, contact the Student Funding Adviser.