Key facts
Start dates
January 2025 / September 2025
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Study level
Postgraduate
Award value
£12,858 (in 2025-26)
Number of awards
All applicants who meet the criteria
Application deadline
31 August 2026
Postgraduate Master's Loan - England
Overview
The UK government offers a postgraduate loans scheme for new students starting master's courses. The scheme is open to part-time and full-time students, and in 2025/26 the maximum loan available is £12,858. Part-time students will receive the loan over two years of study. These loans are administered by the Student Loans Company, and unlike undergraduate loans they are paid directly to the student as a contribution towards study-related costs or living costs.
Students with a PG loan receive their loan in 3 instalments to their account during the year of study.
Note: PGCE student funding is via the undergraduate SFE route.
You can find out more on the following websites:
Eligibility
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible this must be your first postgraduate course of study (master's level), and you must be under 60 on the first day of the academic year.
Visit Gov.uk for more on eligibility criteria.
This funding is available to students studying on the following courses:
Postgraduate
- International Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE)
- Accounting and Finance (MSc)
- Advanced Architectural Design (MArch)
- Advanced Computer Science (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Applied Coaching Science (MSc)
- Applied Human Nutrition (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Applied Sport and Exercise Nutrition (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Architecture (MArch)
- Artificial Intelligence (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Automotive Engineering with Electric Vehicles (MSc)
- Building Information Modelling and Management (MSc)
- Coaching and Mentoring Practice (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- Computer Science for Cyber Security (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Computing Science (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Conservation Ecology (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Construction Project Management (MSc)
- Creative Industries (MA)
- Creative Writing (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- Criminology (MSc)
- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (MSc)
- Dietetics (Pre-Registration) (MSc / PGDip)
- Digital Craft in Architecture (MA)
- Digital Marketing (MSc)
- Digital Media Production (MSc)
- Doctor of Coaching and Mentoring (DCM)
- Doctor of Education (EdD)
- Education (MA)
- Electric Motorsport (MSc)
- English Literature (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- Environmental Impact Assessment and Management (MSc)
- Finance (MSc)
- Fine Art (MFA / PGDip / PGCert)
- Global Development and Humanitarian Practice (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- Global Marketing (MSc)
- Global Public Health Leadership (MPH / PGDip / PGCert)
- Historic Conservation (MSc / PGDip)
- History (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- Human Resource Management - Admission with Credit (12 month fast-track route to the MA) (MA)
- Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding (MA / PGCert)
- Industrialised Construction and Design Management (MSc)
- Infrastructure Planning and Sustainable Development (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Interior Architecture (MA)
- International Business and Supply Chain Management (MSc)
- International Business Management (MSc)
- International Hospitality, Events and Tourism Management (MSc)
- International Hotel and Tourism Management (MSc)
- International Luxury Marketing (MSc)
- International Relations (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- International Relations (Distance Learning) (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- International Security (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- Journalism (MA)
- LLM Master of Laws (LLM / PGDip / PGCert)
- Management (MSc)
- Management and Business Analytics (MSc)
- Marketing and Brand Management (MSc)
- Mechanical Engineering (MSc)
- Medical Genetics and Genomics (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Motorsport Engineering (MSc)
- Oxford Brookes MBA (MBA)
- Primate Conservation (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Primatology and Conservation (MRes / PGCert)
- Professional Development in Health and Social Care (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Professional Photography (MA)
- Project Management in the Built Environment (MSc)
- Psychology (MSc / PGDip / PGCert)
- Public Health (MPH / PGDip / PGCert)
- Publishing (Distance Learning) (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- Publishing Media (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
- Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management (MSc)
- Racing Engine Systems (MSc)
- Real Estate (MSc / PGDip)
- Real Estate Investment Finance (MSc / PGDip)
- Social Work (MA / PGDip)
- Spatial Planning (MSc)
- Strategic Professional Accounting and Finance (MSc)
- Sustainable Architecture: Evaluation and Design (MSc / PGDip)
- Urban Design (MA / PGDip / PGCert)
Application process
Applications should be made via your student account with Student Finance England.
Terms and conditions of financial support
Where a postgraduate student is in receipt of a postgraduate loan from the Student Loans Company (SLC), tuition fees can be paid in line with the instalment dates and percentage of loan specified in the loan agreement letter. Please be aware that if a student with a postgraduate loan withdraws from their studies early, their liability to pay tuition fees remains is set out in paragraph 2.3.4 of the University's Student Debt Policy.
- Full UK Masters (taught or research)
- Course length 1-3 years
- UK nationals (including students with EU settled status)
- Under 60 at the beginning of the course