Fees and payment

Undergraduates

For UK and EU students the current fee is £9,250 per academic year for all full-time undergraduate courses studied on campus. The fees for 2025/26 will rise to £9,535.

Fees for international students will vary depending on the course.

For enquiries about fees, email feeenquiries@port.ac.uk or login to your Student View to see your tuition fee invoice. You can also find out about course fees the relevant course page.

All fees may be subject to annual increases.

Postgraduate Taught

Your tuition fees will vary depending on what you’re studying. You can find the cost of tuition for your chosen subject by visiting the course page.

Postgraduate Research 

Details on tuition fees for your PhD, and other research degrees can be found on the Research Degrees page. 

Yes, it will.  When you come to pay your fees, the deposit you have paid will be deducted from the full tuition fees.

If you are repeating modules during the 2024/25 academic year, please use our repeat fee calculator to check your fee. If you have any queries regarding your tuition fee, please email feeenquiries@port.ac.uk.

Please check your course page, and look at the section entitled Course Costs and Funding.

Your official invoice will be produced once you have registered online onto your course and we have reached your course’s start date. 

A pro-forma invoice can be accessed via Student View under the My Finance tab prior to 1st August.  After this, your pro-forma invoice will be visible in the Fee section of your My Registration for you to download.

If you believe you may have been invoiced incorrectly, please contact feeenquiries@port.ac.uk informing us why you think it may be incorrect and we will investigate your record for you.

You will have 14 days from the date of your official invoice to pay your tuition fees in full or to set up an instalment plan/arrangement with our Income Team – income@port.ac.uk. 

Please look at our Make a Payment webpage.

Students resident in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Isle of Man may be eligible to receive funding for their tuition fees. Further information can be found on the UK Government's Student Finance webpage.

Please note: the University cannot intervene on your behalf regarding your application, as this is a financial contract between you and the relevant funding agency.

The Student Finance Centre based at University House can help you to contact your funding agency and speak on your behalf, however you must be with them when they phone so that you can give permission to your funding agency for the University to speak with them.

Once you have completed the University’s annual registration process, the University will inform the Student Loans Company (SLC) that you are officially a student at the University of Portsmouth, and your tuition fees will then be paid directly to the University.

These fees are paid in three instalments across the academic year.

Once you have completed the University’s registration process, the University will inform the Student Loans Company to release the first instalment of your maintenance loan.

Payment will be released three working days after the University has confirmed your registration.

My maintenance grant/loan hasn't been paid to me, what do I do?

Some possible reasons for not receiving payment include the SLC having incorrect bank details for you, or your national insurance number has not been verified.

Please login to your online account with the funding agency to ensure you have submitted your application correctly and see if anything is outstanding.

If everything has been done, and all information provided is correct, please contact us at feeenquiries@port.ac.uk.

Payment will automatically be released to you on the set dates given in your payment schedule. Sometimes if there is an issue with your application during the academic year, the SLC may block any future payments. Please contact them in the first instance to find out why they have done this.

We download an electronic file from the SLC which tells us the students who are receiving a tuition fee grant/loan, so you shouldn't need to tell us. However, if you decide at the last minute to study with us, then during the online registration process, you will be asked to confirm if you have applied for a student loan. 

If you believe you shouldn't have been invoiced because one of the UK’s funding agencies will be paying your fees please email written evidence of this to feeenquiries@port.ac.uk.

If you originally applied to go to another University, or you are transferring in, it is likely your financial notification will show the previous University on it. If this is the case, you will need to send your financial notification to us at feeenquiries@port.ac.uk. This will then allow us to confirm your registration and update your university to Portsmouth.

Once you have confirmed your change of status, the University will automatically submit a change of circumstances form to the appropriate funding agency. 

Please see our Change of Status webpage for further information.

If your change of status  covers a change in fee request or if you wish to change to or from a course with a placement year, please contact feeenquiries@port.ac.uk.

A sponsor is an employer, or a government body. It is not a relative unless they are paying through their official company. If you are receiving direct payment of a scholarship, then you are still classified by the University as a self-paying student. 

As a sponsored student you are not eligible for any of the tuition fee discounts currently offered, except for the staff discount.

Yes, a sponsor can pay your tuition fees and/or bench fees on your behalf.

Yes, you need to let the University know if your employer is paying your fees for you. 

You can ask your employer to either complete the University’s Tuition and Bench Fee Sponsorship Agreement Form (also known as a RE2 Form), or provide a letter of Sponsorship or provide a purchase order document and either email this to feeenquiries@port.ac.uk or upload it when completing online registration.

This must be on the sponsor's official headed paper and signed by the sponsor (not the student). An example letter template can be found on our Sponsor an Employee webpage.

We recommend that your employer cuts and pastes all the details from our example into their letter.

Any letter sent without the details required and without the declaration will be rejected, leaving the student liable for the tuition fees.

Ask your employer to complete a Letter of Sponsorship – please use the example letter template found on our Sponsor an Employee webpage.

The letter of sponsorship must either be emailed to feeenquiries@port.ac.uk or upload it when completing online registration.

• Student's full name
• The course the student is to study
• The amount the sponsor wishes to contribute (Please specify in GBP). Please ensure if sponsorship covers multiple academic sessions that the amount/percentage of sponsorship is clearly defined. 
• The purchase order number *
• The email address of your Accounts Payable Department where the invoice is to be sent
• The FULL (including postcode if applicable) address of the company. This address will be used to post the invoice if no Accounts Payable email address is provided
• The academic session(s)/dates the letter is to cover (eg. 2024/25 to 2026/27 or September 2024 to June 2027 or 12 months from September 2024 or 3 years from September 2024.
• Contact email address of the signatory and/or sponsoring company/body

If it is a Letter of Sponsorship, it will need to be on the sponsor's official headed paper.

The Tuition and Bench Fee Sponsorship Agreement Form, Letter of Sponsorship or Letter of Financial Guarantee must be signed by the sponsor, NOT the student.

Please contact feeenquires@port.ac.uk.

After you have completed registration and a satisfactory identity (ID) check. If you have already received an invoice from the University, please do not send the invoice to your employer to pay, instead please contact income@port.ac.uk.

You will need to provide a new Tuition and Bench Fee Sponsorship Agreement Form or Letter of Sponsorship/Letter of Financial Guarantee with the correct course details.

Tuition Fees must be paid in full within 30 days of the invoice date.

You could be liable for paying the tuition fees or face possible exclusion from the University.  If such a problem occurs, please contact income@port.ac.uk for help.

The University of Portsmouth accepts Enhanced Learning Credits (ELCAS) funding. We can accept claims for all our courses providing the information on your claim is accurate. Before applying through your Educational Staff, please contact us on 44(0)23 9284 7745 or feeenquiries@port.ac.uk where we can advise you of:

• Your start date
• Your tuition fee for the academic year
• Our learner provider number

Please note: incorrect information on the form will result in non-payment by ELCAS and you will be liable for the full amount. 

Please ensure you apply in plenty of time, as ELCAS claims cannot be backdated. We would advise you to apply at least 6 weeks before the course start date.

Any proportion of the Tuition Fee which is not covered by ELCAS, will need to be paid in full before or at online registration.

Further information can be found on our Courses and Funding for Service Personnel webpage.

If a Tuition and Bench Fee Sponsorship Agreement Form or Letter of Sponsorship/Letter of Financial Guarantee is received by the University, this confirms your sponsor's contractual obligation to pay fees for you for the period stated even if you leave the University, or you leave your employment.

It is therefore recommended that your employer/government forms their own agreement with you to cover your obligation to your sponsor, should you leave the course or your employment. 

Please read our Change of Status Policy.

Should you decide to leave the University during the academic year, or are unfortunately excluded by the University, you may be entitled to a tuition fee refund. Our Tuition Fee Procedures for Applicants and Students explains what your tuition fee refund entitlement might be.

If you decide to leave the University, you will need to officially request a change of status. Once your student record shows that you have left the University, we will calculate your tuition fee refund.

For Undergraduate Students, if you are in receipt of a Student Finance loan, the University will automatically inform the Student Loans Company (SLC) of your change of status.   Refunds will be made to the SLC. 

For Postgraduate students (PGT and PGR) as the loan is paid directly to you, then any refund will be made to you.

We will refund your sponsor/employer directly of any credit balance on their account.

If you are taking a study break, we will carry any credit balance on your account forward towards your return.  If you wish instead to request a refund of your credit balance, please contact us at feeenquiries@port.ac.uk.

Please contact income@port.ac.uk to discuss your specific circumstances.

If you are a student you need to go to feeenquiries@port.ac.uk and if you are an applicant then you need to go to refundappeals@port.ac.uk.

You will need to contact the relevant service provider to whom you agreed the original contract.

Please allow up to four weeks for the refund process to be completed.

We'll refund the person who originally made the payment via the same payment method. For example, if the payment was made online using a debit or credit card, we'll refund the money onto the same card.

Online credit or debit card refunds the payee will receive an email when refund is processed advising funds will be received within 3-5 working days.

If you have paid by international bank transfer, then you may have to wait up to six weeks. If we require additional information we will contact you or the payee.

The refund request for your tuition fee will be put on hold until you have cleared any other debts with the University. It is important to obtain permission to leave halls if you are leaving the University, and return books to the library to assist in this matter.

Please email feeenquiries@port.ac.uk.

Our Student Finance Centre can provide advice on loans, grants, bursaries, benefits, debt and hardship funds.

Please look at either our Undergraduate Scholarship and Bursaries webpage or our Postgraduate Scholarship and Bursaries webpage to see if you are eligible and how to apply.

You can also look at our Tuition Fees Discounts, Scholarships and Awards policy.

Please look at our Tuition Fees Discounts, Scholarships and Awards policy.

Please check our Alumni tuition fee discount checker