Higher Education Doctoral Loan - England

Doctoral students can apply for loan to fund their studies. You could get a Postgraduate Doctoral Loan of up to:

• £27,892 if your course starts on or after 1 August 2022
• £27,265 if you started between 1 August 2021 and 31 July 2022

This is to help with your course and living costs while you’re studying, and has to be repaid.

Your loan payments will be spread out across all the academic years of your course. For example, if you’re studying full-time over four years and apply for the maximum loan amount of £27,892, your payments would be around £6,973 in each academic year. The loan is paid in three instalments at the start of each term.

You can apply for a Postgraduate Doctoral Loan amount in any year of your course, but if you apply after the first year, you might not get the maximum amount.