UK Medical School Tuition - HELP

boomting
Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:24:05 +0000

Unfortunately the information provided by MYOS1634 is wrong.

They base student finance status on residency, not nationality. To qualify for home fees (and by extension tuition fee loan and living cost support) you need to have been living in the UK for at least 3 years prior to the start of your degree for reasons other than education (so boarding school wouldn’t count).

If you just wanted to be eligible for the home fees + tuition fee loan (but not living cost support) then living anywhere in the EU for three years would suffice.

There’s no option to just be eligible for home fees but no tuition fee loan based on citizenship or anything like that.

The only exceptions to this is if you can prove that your family’s absence was temporary. The criteria for this are a bit fuzzy, but it usually seems to be decided based on things like whether you’ve been seconded abroad by a UK company, whether your parents maintained a home in the UK, and whether you returned to the UK for holidays.

You should be aware that because you are classed as an international student, your chances of getting an offer for medicine are far lower because of the funding-related restrictions that the government / NHS places on the number of places there are for international students. 60% of UK students don’t get an offer for medicine on their first application (NB this is already a very self-selecting cohort) and the figures are far worse for international students. If you were to study a subject that wasn’t medicine / dentistry / NHS funded then your chances would be better than a UK student, so this really is a problem that’s peculiar to healthcare courses.

There’s some information about home / EU vs international status here [Home/EU or international status | The University of Manchester](Your student finance status | The University of Manchester)

Don’t forget that the application deadline for medicine, dentistry, vet med and Oxbridge is 15th October, so the earliest that you could apply for now is 2015 entry.