Registration status & funding implicationsWithdrawn from your course
If you withdraw from your studies your funding will stop, when it will stop depends on when your withdrawal is reported to your funding body, and what your last date of attendance is.
When your registration status changes to withdrawn, we report this to your funding body, we give them your last date of attendance and they use this date to recalculate your funding entitlement (funding includes tuition fees, maintenance loan, bursary and living cost grants).
If you have already submitted your funding application, you can submit an update through your online funding account to notify them you have withdrawn from your course. If you have not notified your funding body prior to the start of the academic year that you are repeating a year, you could end up with a funding overpayment.
What happens next and the level of funding available will depend on the policy of your funding body.
Contact us
If you're still unsure of the impact to your funding, you can email financial-support
In your email, please tell us what your registration status is/will be and if applicable the duration, and if you have previously had funding for a repeat year or Voluntary Suspension for medical reasons.
SAAS (Student Awards Agency Scotland)
Maintenance loan, bursary & living cost grants
SAAS will stop any future payments and use the last date of attendance to work out how much of this funding you are entitled to.
This is because you are only entitled to funding for when you were studying.
SAAS will send you a letter telling you if the amount of maintenance loan, bursary and living cost grants you are entitled to has changed. If it has gone down, they will let you know how much you owe them.
You will have to either:
- repay it straight away
- set up a payment plan
Tuition fees
If your last date of attendance is:
- before 1 December - SAAS will not pay any tuition fees to us
- after 1 December - SAAS will pay us up to £1,820 for an undergraduate student or £5,500 for a postgraduate student
Student Finance England, Student Finance Wales & Student Finance Northern Ireland
Maintenance Loan, bursary & living cost grants
Your funding body will stop any future payments and use the last date of attendance to work out how much of this funding you are entitled to.
This is because you are only entitled to funding for when you were studying.
Your funding body will send you a letter telling you if the amount of maintenance loan, bursary and living cost grants you are entitled to has changed. If it has gone down, they will let you know how much you owe them. You will have to either:
- repay it straight away
- set up a payment plan
Tuition fee loan
Below is a table showing the tuition fee loan amount your funding body will pay us depending on what term your last date of attendance is in.
| Term you leave | Tuition fee loan they will pay |
|---|---|
| 1 | £2,312.50 |
| 2 | £4,625 |
| 3 | £9,250 |