Undergraduate Fees and Funding

If you don’t want to borrow your tuition fees from the UK Government, or are ineligible for a tuition fee loan, you can pay your fees directly to the University. If you choose to pay in this way the fees will have to be paid while you are studying and payment cannot be deferred in the same way as a tuition fee loan.

Full-time undergraduate Home students

Payment options

• Pay at least 50% of their annual fee prior to enrolment followed by another 50% on the date specified on their invoice. Example of intake dates and payment dates below:
  • • September starters: 15 January
    • January starters: 15 April
    • April starters: 15 July
    • May starters: 15 August
• Full payment
  • *Students that are not in receipt of any additional scholarships or discounts, and are paying their fees in full prior to enrolment can receive a £500 discount. Please refer to our “Discounts” section for more information.
• Sponsor
  • If you are a sponsored student, please visit our Sponsor page.

Making a payment:

To can make payment via Flywire, please go to the Finance Payment Portal.

Part-time undergraduate Home students

Part –time fees are calculated depending on the amount of credits you will study each year. The maximum credits you can do per year as a part-time student is 90 credits. To find out how much your fees will be you will need to go to your course page and look for a part-time fee which will usually be presented per 20 credits (as this is an average module credit value), you will then have to decide how many modules you are planning to take and multiply that by the price.

For example: “20 credit module is £2,000 and you choose to study 80 credits so the price will be £8,000*”

*Please note that this is not a real price but just an example.

Payment options:

• Pay at least 50% of their annual fee prior to enrolment followed by another 50% on the date specified on their invoice. Example of intake dates and payment dates below:
  • September starters: 15 January
  • January starters: 15 April
  • April starters: 15 July
  • May starters: 15 August
• Full payment
• Request a Payment Plan: only for fees over £1000 for students studying over two semesters and not available for single modules (please visit our How to request Payment Plan section)
• Sponsor
  • If you are a sponsored student, please visit our Sponsor page.

Making a payment

Home students can pay their fees using card payment facility or Sofort bank transfer option via Convera Global. Both options are accessible Finance Payment Portal.

Students enrolled on Nursing, Midwifery, and allied health professional courses may be eligible for additional non-repayable grants from the NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF) each academic year of their studies.

Funding may include a:

• £5,000 training grant
• £1,000 specialist subject payment for students on Mental Health Nursing, Learning Disability Nursing, Podiatry courses at the University of Northampton
• £2,000 Parental support for students with children
• Reimbursement of excess travel and dual accommodation expenses
• Means-tested Exceptional Support Fund for students who experience unexpected financial hardship during their studies.

Further details are available on the NHS Business Services Authority website.

EU students enrolling on their first undergraduate, or PGCE, or MSc Physiotherapy course may be eligible for a Tuition Fee Loan from Student Finance Services.

EU students may be eligible for a Maintenance Loan to cover living costs. For more information visit Student Finance for EU students and the Finance for full-time EU students page on the UCAS website.

EU students who are financially dependent on a family member who is currently and will continue to work during their studies could be considered either a Migrant Worker or the family member of a migrant worker for the purposes of student funding.

Further information for EU students can also be found on the UKCISA website

Students are not usually expected to repay Tuition Fee and Maintenance Loans until the April after leaving their course and once earning over £25,000 per year (for students starting after August 2023). Repayments will be 9% of any income over £25,000. Repayments will stop if the income drops below £25,000, but interest may still accrue on the balance.

Outstanding loan balances will be written off forty years from the date repayments were due.

Visit the Repaying your student loan on the Student Finance website for further details.

Previous study on a higher education course, in the UK or overseas, may affect entitlement to student funding. Contact the regional funding body and the University of Northampton Financial Guidance Team for further guidance before enrolling on a new course.