Postgraduate Student Funding

Before registering for a postgraduate degree, it’s important to have a plan for how you will fund your tuition fees and living costs. UK Government options for student finance won’t usually provide enough to cover both of these costs, so many students need to combine income from different sources to fund their studies. This page outlines some of the different options for funding a postgraduate degree.

We would recommend that you also read the University’s pages on postgraduate student funding.

  1. Save the Student’s information on financing a postgraduate degree
  2. Prospects’ information on postgraduate funding
  3. The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding

If you have reviewed this material and feel that you would benefit from speaking to one of our advisers, please email rsu@roehampton.ac.uk.

Postgraduate student loans

For students living in England, the UK Government funds a scheme for Postgraduate Masters Loans of up to £11,836 and Postgraduate Doctoral Loans of up to £27,892 (in 2022-23). See their website here for more information, or to apply for a loan. Please note that those amounts are for the full duration of your degree, and not per year.

On that Government information page on postgraduate funding, they also list some suggestions for how you might fund a postgraduate degree.

Your eligibility to receive a postgraduate loan will depend on a few key things:

  1. your course of study
  2. your age
  3. your nationality or residence status
  4. other funding you have received, will receive or would be eligible to apply for

See this page for details of eligibility for masters loans and here for eligibility details for doctoral loans. Please note that as well as UK students, this funding option may be available to Irish students as well as EU students with settled status or indefinite leave to remain in the UK.