Loans and funding
The student funding team offers a range of loans and funding to help support you through your studies.
If you would like to contact an adviser, please email student.funding@solent.ac.uk, or you can arrange an appointment here. Alternatively, you can see a funding adviser in the Student Hub 8.30am-5pm Monday to Thursday, or 8.30am-4.30pm Friday.
We also have some funding factsheets to help:
Undergraduate funding factsheet
Postgraduate funding factsheet
US federal loans
Solent University is certified by the US Department of Education to provide US students coming to the UK to study with both Federal Direct Loans and private student loans via Sallie Mae.
For full information on these loans please see our guide to applying for US Federal Aid.
Student funding team leaflets
The student funding team have written various leaflets ranging from student funding, state benefits, suspending studies, to extra grants and bursaries for students. They have also provided leaflets written by Student Finance England.
Please use the links below to access the leaflets. You are welcome to print them out.
Information to check you have the correct funding
Undergraduate part-time and full-time funding
Claiming independent student status
EU student funding and migrant workers
Extra funds available from Solent
Solent's grants, bursaries, and scholarships
Benefit leaflets
PIP (personal independence payment)
If things change in your circumstances
How to make changes to your Student Finance application
The funding implications of suspending, leaving, changing or repeating your course
How to apply for compelling personal reasons and discretionary payments
A guide to discretionary funding