Part-time, undergraduate students
What type of student are you?
Where you're from and where you live also helps determine what kinds of funding you can get. Read both the options and decide which one applies to you.
Applications for 2024 to 2025 part-time undergraduate student finance are now open!
Tuition fee and living cost student
This is sometimes called a Welsh student. You could get help with tuition fees and living costs if any of the following apply:
- you're a UK national or Irish citizen and been living in UK and Islands for 3 years before the first day of the first year of your course
- you've been granted settled status and been living in UK and Islands for 3 years before the first day of the first year of your course
- you've been granted settled or pre-settled status under the EU settlement scheme and been living in UK and Islands for 3 years before the first day of the first year of your course
All of the above will also need to live in Wales on or before the first day of the first academic year of your course.
You can also have an eligible exception residency type such as a refugee, stateless person or humanitarian protection.
If you're not able to identify as a tuition fee and living costs student, you may still be eligible for funding as a tuition fee only funding student.
Tuition fee only funding student
This is sometimes called an EU student. If you’re not able to identify as a tuition fee and living cost student, you could still get tuition fee only funding.
You can apply for tuition fee only funding if all the following apply:
- you have settled or pre-settled status under the EU settlement scheme, or you’ve made a valid application to the EU settlement scheme and have temporary protection, as evidenced by a Certificate of Application (Irish citizens don’t need this)
- you have lived in the UK, the EEA (including the Republic of Ireland), Switzerland or the Overseas Territories for the 3 years before the first day of the first academic year of your course
- you will be studying in Wales
You can also have other residency types such as a being a family member of a Person of Northern Ireland or you are a UK National who is resident of Gibraltar.
If you're not able to identify as either a tuition fee and living costs student or a tuition fee only funding student, you may not be eligible for funding from Student Finance Wales. Your university or college may be able to tell you about possible alternative sources of funding.