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Postgraduate students

Postgraduate Master's student finance applications for academic year 2024 to 2025 are now open! Apply online now!

What type of student are you?

Where you're from and where you live also helps determine what kinds of funding you can get. Read both the options and decide which one applies to you.

  • Tuition fee and extra help student

    You could get tuitions fees and extra help, such as Disabled Students’ Allowance, if you meet the following criteria. This is sometimes called Northern Ireland student funding. You can apply for tuition fees and extra help if any of the following apply:

    • a UK or Irish citizen and been living in UK & Islands for 3 years before the first day of the first year of your course
    • have been granted settled status and been living in UK & Islands for 3 years before the first day of the first year of your course
    • have been granted settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme and been living in UK & Islands for 3 years before the first day of the first year of your course

    All of the above you will also need to live in Northern Ireland on or before the first day of the first academic year of your course.

    You can also have an eligible exception residency type such as a refugee, stateless person or humanitarian protection.

    If you're not able to identify as a tuition fee and extra help student, you may still be eligible for funding as a tuition fee only funding student.

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  • Tuition fee only funding student

    You could get tuition fee only funding if you meet the following criteria. This is sometimes called EU student funding.

    You can apply for tuition fee only funding if all the following apply:

    • you're not able to identify as a tuition fee and extra help student
    • you've been granted pre-settled or settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme
    • you've lived in the UK, Gibraltar, EEA (including the Republic of Ireland) or Switzerland for at least 3 years before the first day of the first year of your course
    • you will be studying in Northern Ireland

    If you're a family member of a person with settled status, UK national or a person of Northern Ireland you may be able to apply as a tuition fee only funding student.

    If you're not able to identify as either a tuition fee and extra help student or tuition fee only funding student, you may not be eligible for funding from Student Finance NI. Your university or college may be able to tell you about possible alternative sources of funding.

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