A step-by-step guide
- Making applications
- Fees, deposit and scholarships
- Accommodation
- Visas and Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS)
A step-by-step guide
We offer a range of scholarships and financial support to help our international students with the costs of studying at Oxford Brookes.
You can apply for both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees directly through your agent portal, which is free to use and helps you keep track of your applications.
When submitting a student’s application, please check whether the course has a Sandwich option (an industry placement or a year abroad). Please select the correct Sandwich option on the application. If you need to request any changes to the Sandwich option after a student has received their offer letter, please submit the Course Change Request form as early as possible to avoid CAS issue delays.
If you have any queries about using the agent portal, please contact your regional Global Recruitment Officer. If you need a student application to be tagged to you, please send your request to your regional Recruitment Officer, quoting the application ID.
Applications can also be made through UCAS for undergraduate courses starting in September.
Please remember to upload any supporting documents directly to the application.
These documents are the ones we must see to be able to make a quick decision on your application. Including these will ensure a faster decision and avoid missed emails!
If you have these documents when you apply please include them, but if not, you can send these to us later to meet the offer conditions:
A personal statement should outline why your student wants to study their chosen course in the UK and how it might help their future plans. It should be written in their own words. Here are some resources to help your students make an impact in their personal statement.
If you would like more guidance, please do ask your Global Recruitment contact for help - we are happy to run workshops for your students on how to write a personal statement.
For visa purposes, certified English translations are required for all academic documents. Please include these at the point of application.
Find out more below about tuition fees, deposit requirements and scholarships available to international students.
You can also visit our fees and funding pages for more information.
At Oxford Brookes we’re always trying to find ways to help students with costs. Visit our living costs page for planning and budgeting tips for students.
Tuition fees for international students are set annually and individual course costs vary. You can find the most up-to-date fee information for each course on our course pages.
Please note that tuition fees may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.
International applicants are required to pay a minimum £3,000 deposit to confirm their place and enter CAS Shield.
Applicants from India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ghana, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Syria are required to pay a £5,000 top-up deposit to receive their CAS. To ensure a smooth application process, applicants are encouraged to pay their deposit as early as possible. Applicants who are required to pay the £5,000 top-up are welcome to pay the £8,000 deposit in one lump sum if they prefer. You can find deposit payment deadlines for September 2024 entry below.
Details of deposit payment methods can be viewed on our pay your deposit page.
We also offer a range of scholarships to help our international students with the costs of studying at Oxford Brookes. You can find out more on our Global Scholarships page.
Alongside this, at Brookes Sport we award up to 20 Sports Scholarships to Oxford Brookes students each year who show outstanding talent and success in their chosen sport.
We guarantee that all full-time first-year international students will be offered accommodation as long as they apply by the deadline and meet the academic criteria for their offer.
Find out more about how to apply for accommodation below.
Accommodation is only allocated periodically, not on a first-come, first-served basis.
Only unconditional offer holders will be allocated accommodation
You will receive an email from us when you have been allocated a room. You can accept or decline the offer on the accommodation portal.
Once you have been assigned a room in a Hall of Residence, you will be required to sign a formal contract digitally. As soon as you sign your contract, you are entering into a legally binding financial agreement, so you should be aware of these terms and agree to them before signing. Find out more about these terms.
Accommodation Bureau
A Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies, known as a CAS, is needed to apply for a student visa. A CAS can only be issued after an applicant’s offer is unconditional and no more than 3 months before the start date of their course.
Find out more about the CAS process below.
Upload your evidence and financial documents
Check that your details on CAS Shield are correct
Applicants from India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ghana, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Syria are required to pay a £5,000 top-up deposit in order to receive their CAS.
Check CAS details to make sure it's accurate. If it isn't, as the student to send a correction message via their CAS Shield account..
See information, guidance and visa workshops at student visa application.
The International Student Advice Team (ISAT) is available to help with immigration and welfare-related issues.
Due to high demand, from 26 April 2024, the following courses are closing to new applications for September 2024 entry:
To ensure a smooth application process, applicants are encouraged to pay their deposit as early as possible. Applicants who are required to pay a £5,000 top-up can opt to pay the full £8,000 deposit in one lump sum by 15 July 2024 if they prefer.
Find out more about paying deposits.
16 September 2024 - induction events start
23 September 2024 - teaching starts
Oxford Brookes contributes towards the cost of visa renewal for international students progressing from a pathway course onto a degree at Oxford Brookes. Further information is available on the scholarship and financial support webpage within the relevant course level.
Conditional offer holder support: Results/qualifications need to be uploaded to the portal or sent via email directly to admissions@brookes.ac.uk. In order for applications to be processed faster, your email subject lines must include the student name and ID of an applicant.
Unconditional Firm offer holder support: All queries related to the VIF/CAS process must be emailed directly to isat@brookes.ac.uk
If your students wish to request a deferral or course change, please submit the relevant request form which can be found on our website. Following submission of the request form, our admissions team will action the request as soon as possible. Please note, there is no need to speak to our admissions team directly to request a deferral or course change, and contacting them will not speed up the process. Please submit the form and await their response. This useful video explains the deferral and course change process further.
You can upload 5 documents via your agent portal when you submit an application. If you would like to submit more, please email supporting documents to your Global Recruitment contact or straight to our Admissions team at admissions@brookes.ac.uk. Please quote the applicant's name and ID number in any correspondence.
If any supporting documents are not in English, then in addition to submitting the original untranslated document, you must also include an official translation that has been signed and dated by an authorised and verifiable translator. The translated document must include:
Please check our website.
We accept a variety of English Language qualifications. Please find details of acceptable qualifications on our website.
Our Admissions team are currently aiming to assess applications within 10 working days of submission. For courses that require interviews (such as Healthcare courses), or portfolios (such as Architecture courses), the application process may take longer depending on the date of interview or portfolio submission. Please ensure that you submit as many supporting documents as possible so the Admissions team have the information needed to progress an application upon review. Feel free to email your Global Recruitment contact if you have any queries.
Please check the individual country pages for entry requirement equivalencies for a particular country.
The Admissions team will contact the applicant about submitting a portfolio (where required) and explain the key steps. It is very important that applicants monitor their email inbox to check for any correspondence from the University.
Yes, if the applicant wishes to proceed with the application then please accept the offer on the agent portal. If the student does not wish to study at Oxford Brookes please decline any offers they may have. This can also be done on the agent portal.
No, we only issue conditional and unconditional offers. After all the conditions have been met an unconditional offer letter will be issued.
At Oxford Brookes University, ATAS is currently needed for applicants applying for the following taught programmes:
Applicants who are Nationals of the EU, (EEA), Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland or the United States of America do not need an ATAS certificate when applying for a visa.
More information can be found on our website.
The CAS process can only begin after a student's application is Unconditional Firm. All conditions need to be met and the offer needs to be accepted.
Please use the live chat function on the CAS Shield platform to contact the team.
You can find guidance here on your Agent Hub, in the Application to Enrolment - Fees, Deposits and Scholarships section.
Applicants can pay their tuition fees in full at the start of the academic year or in two equal instalments at the start of each semester, in September and January. There is a 3-payment option for courses which have a 3-term structure. Further details can be found on our website.
The Accommodation team will contact the applicant when the window to apply is open - please check our website for further details and the key deadline dates.
The Airline coach connects Oxford with London Heathrow and London Gatwick airports. For other airports, please check the airport websites individually, or contact our International Student Advice Team (ISAT) for guidance.
For arrival or travel queries, please contact our International Student Advice Team (ISAT). For Accommodation queries, please contact our Accommodation team via accomm@brookes.ac.uk or +44 (0) 1865 534444.
Please ask the student to complete a STUDENT-REP-AUTHORISATION-FORM. Once the form has been completed and signed by the student, it should be sent to repcontracts@brookes.ac.uk.
No, the student will be tagged automatically.
As proof of involvement in student counselling, the following documents will be required:
- Signed student declaration
- Submitted application through the agent portal
- For Undergraduate students only - The Representative's details given as part of the correspondence address in the UCAS application, or a copy of the electronic front page of the UCAS application endorsed with the Representative's stamp and code, or a copy of the offer letter for the actual year of entry.
For any queries about this process, please contact the Contract & Commissions Officer at repcontracts@brookes.ac.uk.
Please ask the student to complete a STUDENT-REP-AUTHORISATION-FORM. Once the form has been completed and signed by the student, it should be sent to repcontracts@brookes.ac.uk with the reason why the student has requested to change agents.
Please contact your Global Recruitment contact or email the Contract & Commissions Officer via repcontracts@brookes.ac.uk.
Please contact the Contract & Commissions Officer at repcontracts@brookes.ac.uk.
Please contact the Contract & Commissions Officer at repcontracts@brookes.ac.uk.
Please contact the Contract & Commissions Officer at repcontracts@brookes.ac.uk.
Please check the Commission section of your Agent Hub.
Payment will be delayed to the next claim period if claims are not submitted in the assigned period. Details of commission claim periods can be found on the Commission section of your Agent Hub.
As soon as the invoice is sent to our finance department, it will be processed the next day (matched to the PO for payment).
It will then be picked up for the weekly automated payment run and the international payment will be processed once our Finance team have the foreign payment run report.
The international payment will be entered into our banking portal for approval by our Financial Accountants and once this has been done, will be sent to the relevant bank details we hold on record. We cannot guarantee when payments will arrive in bank accounts, as all countries differ in this process.
Please check the Marketing Resources section of your Agent Hub.
Please contact your Global Recruitment contact.