What you need to know at a glance

What you need to know about money, fees and funding support.

NTU Bursary notification letters and payment dates

We approve NTU bursaries for full-time undergraduate UK home students early in September. Most letters will go out between September and November. We'll send it to the same place as your student finance correspondence, which may be your home address. You'll also find a copy of the bursary letter on the student finance portal.

Payment dates for the NTU Bursary during 2024/25 are:

£300 on 4 December 2024
£300 on 5 February 2025
£150 on 16 April 2025

The £170 NTU Opportunity Bursary payment will be made on Friday 31 January.

Find out more about this and other support on our bursaries and scholarships page.

If you are repeating a year or have previously studied elsewhere

If you are repeating some of your undergraduate course, or if you have studied on a previous course or at a different university, your funding may be affected. Find out about your options on our previous study and Compelling Personal Reasons page.

Help with money management

Here are a few suggestions:

Divide your termly income across the number of weeks it needs to last to give yourself a weekly budget.
Set up a second bank account. Transfer yourself a weekly or monthly amount so you aren't in danger of overspending.
Create a budget plan detailing how much you'll spend on each living cost. Track your spending as you go.

Check out our managing your money information. You'll find details of our ‘Money Ready for NTU’ workshops and tips on looking after your finances.

Extra help for estranged students and care leavers

If you're estranged, the Student Money Team can help you plan your finances. They'll support you to apply to your national Student Finance service as an independent student.

You may also be eligible for a bursary.

Find out more about support for estranged students and support for care leavers.

Household income re-assessments

For home undergraduate students, maintenance funding is usually assessed based on household income. For most students under the age of 25, they use your parental household income. For the 2024/25 academic year, student finance uses household income from the 2022/23 tax year to decide what maintenance funding to give you.

You can ask your national student finance service for a reassessment if:

you believe your household income will be 15% lower in the 2024/25 tax year
you're from Northern Ireland, and you believe your household income will be 5% lower in the 2024/25 tax year.

This is a Current Year Income Assessment. It's based on your predicted household income for 2024/25 instead. They'll use this to decide how much maintenance funding to give you.

There are a few things to consider before asking for a Current Year Income Assessment.

Your national student finance service must assess your 2022/23 household income first.
As estimated income for is used to begin with, you'll need to confirm your actual household income at a later stage. You may need to do this periodically throughout the year.
A significant discrepancy between the predicted income and the confirmed income may trigger a further reassessment. If you're given too much maintenance funding, you may have to repay the overpaid amount.

Find out more about Current Year Income Assessments.