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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.

We also have some funding factsheets to help:

Undergraduate funding factsheet

Postgraduate funding factsheet

Student funding FAQs

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

Postgraduate master's funding

Postgraduate doctoral funding 

Undergraduate part-time and full-time funding

Claiming independent student status

EU student funding and migrant workers

Funding for a placement year

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

Other relevant topics

Life after university

Repaying your student loans

Repaying your postgraduate loan

Postgraduate students - taking a break from studies