Paying your tuition fees
Before paying your tuition fees, you must first complete a form registering how you will pay them. How you pay your tuition fees is dependent on whether you are a self-funded, internally-funded or externally-funded student.
Register how you will pay your tuition fees
Before paying, you need to complete a form for the Finance team, who handle fee payments. The form asks questions about the funding you have and how you plan to pay your fees.
After you submit the form, you will be guided to a page telling you how to pay your fees.
You have to complete the form at the start of every year of your programme. This is the case whether you will pay your fees yourself, or receive funding through a scholarship or loan.
Different funding types
External funding
External funding is funding received from an official institution other than the University of Edinburgh.
Types include:
- UK government funding or a loan, through SAAS or Student Finance England/Wales/Northern Ireland
- a loan from a UK company
- a loan from an international company or government
- a full or partial scholarship from an official UK or international sponsor
Internal funding
Internal funding is where you receive an award or funding from the University of Edinburgh towards your tuition fees, that is not paid directly to yourself.
Self-funding
Self-funding is where you pay for your own fees. You might pay your fees with:
- your own money
- money from family or friends
- money from an external funder paid directly to you
Pay your fees as a self-funded student
Combination of funding sources
Many students have a combination of funding sources. If you have a partial loan or scholarship, you will need to pay the remaining amount of your fees to the University yourself, using one of the self-funding payment options available.
If your funding is very complex, you may need help from the Finance team to work out how to pay your fees.
Multiple funding sources or an unlisted funder
Question about paying your fees?
The Finance Helpline can help answer questions around paying tuition fees.