Tuition fees

Tuition fees are a key matter for all students, and it is important you are familiar with how to pay and what support may be available to you.

We charge our tuition fees once a year, at the start of each year of study – and these fees are subject to change annually. Some courses also have additional costs associated with them, and it’s important you familiarise yourself with these so that you can budget accordingly.

You’ll find details of course fees, programme specifications and additional costs on our individual course pages for UK and international students. Please use the course search facility to look at the course you’re interested in.

For more information about fees and costs for specific courses, visit our individual course pages.

View the payment and debt procedures for students and commercial customers.

If you spend a year on a work placement as part of your course, your fee for this year will be significantly lower at £1,400.

BNU fees commitment ensures that whichever fee regime you start your course on, it will remain at the same level for the duration of your course - irrespective of any future changes in government policy or rises in maximum fee levels.

International students under the Student Route Visa are required to make a deposit payment of 50% of the first year’s fees ahead of receiving their Confirmation of Acceptance of Studies (CAS)

Paying your fees

When you register on your course you are responsible for ensuring the University receives payment for the tuition fee. Tuition fees become due in full once you have started your course.

Buckinghamshire New University offer all students paying their tuition fee in full or three instalments option.

For self-financing students, organising the payment of your tuition fees is essential. If you do not pay your fees at the correct time you may not have access to all of the facilities.

See more information on how to pay.

Sponsorship

Students who are being sponsored by an employer should make sure we have this information in writing and before you start your course. Please upload this evidence when completing your online enrolment. Confirmation can be in the form of:

• a purchase order
• a sponsorship form: for one student or for several students on the same course
• a signed letter from the sponsor containing invoicing information and the amount being sponsored.

A copy of the sponsorship form can be emailed to income@bucks.ac.uk.

Sponsors will receive an invoice for the tuition fees.  Fees are due in full 30 days from date of invoice.

If your personal sponsor has not paid you will become personally liable for the payment of those fees.

Student loan

Where you have applied for a student loan you must ensure your application is complete. If we do not receive payment of the fees from Student Finance you will become personally liable for the payment of those fees.

If you have not applied for funding or you are not eligible for funding, you must ensure that all tuition fees are paid to the University.

What will happen if my student finance is not arranged before the first tuition fee instalment is due?

If no payment has been made by yourself or student finance against any outstanding tuition instalment it is likely you will receive a reminder from our income team. If you applied for student finance funding please send evidence of this to income@bucks.ac.uk so they know you are awaiting action from student finance.

If you are a postgraduate student with funding from student finance, we would remind you that it is your responsibility to pay your tuition fees with the University in line with your instalment dates.

Cooling off period

Buckinghamshire New University allows a 14-day cooling off period for all programmes of study along with any programmes of study which are considered either distance learning or flexible distributed learning. This allows 14 days for the student to change their mind about their chosen course and formally withdraw without financial penalty. The 14-day period starts from the date the student signs their enrolment form; ‘day one’ or the start date of the course which includes welcome week for new starters, whichever is later.

For online or remote enrolment this is taken as the date it is confirmed online or the form is received by Buckinghamshire New University.

To apply the student must formally withdraw from their course within this 14-day period. Please refer to the Interruption, Withdrawal or Transfer of Studies Procedure for further information on how to do this.

If the student cancels their contract in accordance with the previous section, we will reimburse all payments which have been made in respect of the cancelled contract. We will make the reimbursement without undue delay using the same means of payment the student used for their initial transaction. Where a student applied and received their student loan, the University will inform the Student Loans Company of the overpayment.

International students should contact the International Office for advice.

Withdrawing, suspending or deferring - UK/EU Undergraduate Students

If you leave during your study, we calculate your fees based on the date on your leavers form and not your last date of attendance. We will charge you fees for every term that you attended the University, in line with tuition fee loan dates set by Student Finance. If you leave in term one, two or three, we will charge you the following:

• Term one: 25% fees
• Term two: 50% fees
• Term three: 100% fees

Returners or students re-sitting will also be liable for tuition fees in line with tuition fee loan dates set by Student Finance.

• Term one, two and three (full year): 100% fees
• Term two and three (January returner): 75% fees
• Term one only: 25% fees
• Term two only: 25% fees
• Term three only: 50% fees.

Other self-funding students will be charged equal payments for each liability period.

• Term one only: 34% fees
• Term two only: 33% fees
• Term three only: 33% fees

See more information about changing direction from your course.

For those students who are not using Student Finance Tuition Fee Loans please see the Tuition Fee Payment Dates chart below. We will charge you fees for every term that you attended the University. If you leave in term one, two or three, we will charge you one third for each term you have completed or started. The liability date is day one of each term.

 

Accommodation Fees

Students in University accommodation are required to pay the accommodation rents and licence fee for the duration of their licence period. Students should refer to the full terms and conditions of their signed licence agreement. Contact the Accommodation Department for more information.

Sanctions for students with an academic debt

Sanctions will be applied to current students who do not adhere to University policy for the payment of any amount owing in respect of tuition fees or other invoiced charges relating to academic study. Finance will notify the student that their IT network accounts and ID cards will be temporarily disabled unless payment is received.

If a reply is not received from the student within two weeks after sanction, your case may be sent to our debts collection agency-Oriel which will incur a charge of at least 10% of the value of the amount outstanding, plus any VAT chargeable.