Students with prior qualifications

In certain circumstances students with such qualifications will not attract public (HEFCE) funding, following an instruction from the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

An ELQ is a qualification equivalent to or lower than a qualification that a student has already achieved. Further guidance is available from admissions offices. Fees for full-time, undergraduate, home/EU students (2010/11 entrants) will be increased to £7,000 pa: the fees for 2010/11 entrants will be maintained at that level - in real terms - for the duration of the course.

Fees for future years/duration of course

The fees are quoted for 2010/11 only and will vary from one year to the next. Fees are normally agreed and published in July for the following year’s entry, ie more than 12 months in advance. The rate of increase in fees will normally be limited to the rate of inflation in the University's costs.

Inclusions and exclusions

The following items are included within the tuition fees for all students:

• required fieldwork, residential and materials costs
• printing and photocopying to a value of £15 per year (£7.50 for part-time students)
• professional registration fees where required, except the Law Society registration fee for the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the MRS fee for the Applied and Market Research Diploma.
• Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) and Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) where relevant.

The following items are excluded from the tuition fees for all students and, where applicable, are chargeable in addition:

• optional fieldwork
• fees and exchange losses with conversion of foreign currency payments to Pounds sterling (GBP). Students are reminded that they are liable for all bank charges for conversion or transfer of funds
• printing and photocopying above specified limits
• recommended course materials.

Concessions/discounts

Sandwich/Study Exchange years -

If you take a Sandwich year or Study Exchange year you will not be charged fees for that year.

Foundation years

If you are a UK or EU student studying on a Foundation Year (Year 0) you will be charged £2,000. This fee will be fully refunded early in January, once you have successfully progressed to and enrolled on a Credit Level 4 programme at the University of Westminster in the following year and paying a full fee and still in attendance after 15 December. If you are an international (non EU) student and progress from a foundation course at the University and then successfully complete a full degree programme at the University you will have your final degree year fee reduced by the cost of your Foundation Year.

Postgraduate Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Common Professional Examination (CPE)

A discount of £500 is offered if you are enrolling on the LPC and CPE in Law and have at least an Upper Second Class degree or CPE with commendation.

Prompt payment

A prompt payment discount of five per cent is offered for fees over £5,000 if payment in full is made by 30 September for September starters or by 31 January for January starters. Payment must have been cleared in the University’s bank account in order to qualify for the discount. Certain volume discounts also apply to summer school students referred to us by partner institutions and organisations.

Failed or returned payments will result in loss of entitlement to the discount.

Deposits for international students

A fee deposit for international undergraduate and postgraduate students of £2,500 is payable on receipt of an unconditional offer, before the issue of supporting documents for your visa application. The deposit will only be refunded if the visa application is refused or the course cancelled and a satisfactory alternative cannot be found.

If you are in receipt of a scholarship and the scholarship is for less than 50 per cent of your fees, you will still be required to pay the deposit. If the scholarship is for more than 50 per cent of your fees, including Fulbright and Chevening scholars, then there is no requirement to pay the deposit. This also applies if you are in receipt of a US Federal Department of Education loan. If you have applied for a scholarship but not yet received a decision, the deposit will not become payable until the scholarship decision is confirmed (and then depending on the value of the scholarship if approved). The Scholarships Office will convey decisions as early as possible and aims to complete this by the end of June.

Enrolment

You are, where appropriate, required at enrolment to produce documentary evidence of an application to your Local Authority (LA) for state support with tuition fees, ideally a statement of the assessment outcome or, where not available, an acknowledgement of receipt of an application from the LA. Alternatively, you should provide evidence of sponsorship from another source such as an employer who can be invoiced for the fees. In the absence of this evidence you will be liable for the payment of fees either in full at enrolment or, where eligible, via instalments.

Fee liability and refund policy

A part or full refund of fees is offered if you formally withdraw during the year, dependent on the date of receipt of a completed withdrawal form and exit questionnaire. All refunds are subject to a deduction of an administration fee of £100 plus the replacement cost of any unreturned library materials.

The cut off dates for receipt of the formal notice of withdrawal are:

September starters

• Before 13 October - Full refund
• Before 17 December - 50 per cent refund of the full fees
• After 17 December - Nil refund
  

January starters

• Before 31 January - Full refund
• Before 1 April - 50 per cent refund of the full fees
• After 1 April - Nil refund
  

The percentage refund is on the total fees that are due for the year.

Please note

• Written notification of withdrawal must be made to your School Office
• We will not pay interest on fees taken and subsequently refunded
• The £100 administration fee is payable in all circumstances where a refund is payable. This is a fee to cover the cost of processing the refund and is not therefore payable where you withdraw and no refund is payable.
  

Instalments

The option to pay fees by instalments is not available if you are a full-time undergraduate UK/EU student, new or continuing, if you have the option of taking a tuition fee loan and deferring payment until after graduation. The option to pay by instalments is available for all other students with a personal fee liability of over £1,500.

If you are one of these students you can pay in three instalments with due dates as follows:

September starters

• 50 per cent at enrolment
• 25 per cent by 1 December
• 25 per cent by 31 January

January starters

• 50 per cent at enrolment
• 25 per cent by 31 March
• 25 per cent by 30 April

Methods of payment

Fees may be paid online by credit or debit card (not Amex, Visa Electron or Diners Club), bank transfer (with student incurring all related bank charges), cash (GBP only) or cheques/drafts (GBP, USD, EUR). If you are paying your fees to the
University directly from an overseas bank, please ask the bank to include your name, course and student ID number when making the transaction.

Our bank details are as follows:
NatWest Bank PLC, PO Box 3038, 57 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0HN
Sort Code: 56-00-33
Account No: 48303542
Swift Code: NWBKGB2L
IBAN: GB95 NWBK 5600 3348 3035 42

If your fees are sent directly to the University, you must produce evidence at enrolment that payment has been made into the University’s bank account.

Further information

For further information visit westminster.ac.uk/funding or contact the Course Enquiries Office, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW, tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000, email course-enquiries@westminster.ac.uk