Finance and Funding
Costs
Course fees are fixed for each year and are subject to variation from one year to the next. Accommodation charges also vary from year to year. As much notice as possible is given of any increases in fees and charges. You can find out more about fees and charges here:
Undergraduate Fees
Accommodation Charges
Living Costs
Further Information on Sources of Funding
For First Degrees
Those from low income backgrounds may be eligible for sources of financial support including Oxford Bursaries and Crankstart Bursaries amongst others. For further information and to find out if you are eligible for a bursary, please follow this link to the Central Bursary portal.
In addition the Government offers further financial support for those from low income backgrounds. For information on eligibility and the level of support, please follow this link to the Central University's dedicated portal for government funding.
Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE)
The UK Government is introducing a Lifelong Learning Entitlement to replace student finance loans. Eligibility criteria for the LLE will track existing higher education student finance nationality and residency rules.
Further information about the LLE can be found here.
Those who are reading for a Second Undergraduate Degree are not eligible for Crankstart or Oxford Bursaries but you may be awarded a scholarship.
Harris Manchester College's 2nd Undergraduate Degree Scholarship
All Harris Manchester offer holders for Second Undergraduate Degrees (excluding those reading Graduate Entry Medicine) are eligible to apply, including overseas students from outside the UK or Republic of Ireland. Awards will be made primarily on the basis of academic merit but applicants’ financial situation will also be taken into consideration. Offer holders will be forwarded the relevant application form in January. This is a partial scholarship that is usually worth a few thousand pounds per year.
Ellison Scholarships
The Ellison Institute of Technology offers scholarships covering full funding and a living stipend. Applications are due by 31 July for those who will be starting their course the following academic year.
Read more about Ellison Scholarships
Hill Foundation Scholarships
The Hill Foundation Scholarships fund Russian students to study for any graduate and second BA courses at Oxford. You must be a national of and ordinarily resident in the Russian Federation. You must also have a first degree from a Russian university, and you must not subsequently have been enrolled in any other degree programme outside of Russia.
International students may be eligible for some of the other Oxford scholarships listed on the Central Bursary Portal.
UK students may apply for a Disabled Student's Allowance (DSA). International students may be eligible for university fuding for some disbaility-relate costs. This assistance does not have to be repaid. Further information is available from the University's Disability Advisory Service.
Prospective students from the UK with children may apply through the government for funding to help with childcare with support issued on a case by case basis. Sources of funding include:
1. Childcare Grant. This is funding provided by the government and students apply through their LA. This is for childcare provision costs for full time students with dependent children in registered or approved childcare. It is based on actual childcare costs and is means tested.
2. Parents’ Learning Allowance. This is for course-related costs for full time students with dependent children. It is means tested and students apply through their LA.
3. Child Tax Credits. For students this replaces Dependants Grant for children. It is means tested on income and circumstances (Inland Revenue). You don’t have to be working to claim it.
On-course student parents may apply for the Oxford Assistance Fund.
More information for student parents can be found here.
The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust
The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust supports the work of mature students of proven academic merit, and in financial need, who are pursuing further degree qualifications at an institution in the UK. Open to students from all countries, applicants must be resident in the UK at the time of applying, as well as during their course of study. The Trust supports postgraduate degrees in any subject, as well as courses in medicine or veterinary sciences taken as a second degree. All grants are made annually, and are normally between £500 and £1,500.
Please see https://www.stapleytrust.org/ for further details.
The Sidney Perry Foundation
The Sidney Perry Foundation is a non-profit organisation is dedicated to providing grants to students to assist persons to obtain education in its widest sense, other than primary, when the expenses thereof would without such assistance be beyond their means.
Please see https://www.the-sidney-perry-foundation.co.uk/ for further details.
The Humanitarian Trust
The Humanitarian Trust awards one-off grants of a maximum of £1,000 to students each year who have a shortfall in their income needed to complete their course of study.
Please see http://www.humanitariantrust.co.uk/ for further details.
Please find information available on funding for mature students for both university courses and some entrance qualifications.
For sources of financial support available to on-course students, please see here.
