Tuition fees guidance

UK students can get a student loan through Student Finance for their tuition fees and living fees. This is paid directly to the University.

If you are self-funding, you have the option to pay your annual fee in two instalments as follows:

• 50% payable 10 days after the invoice date (expected to be during October to November of each academic year).
• 50% in January of the same academic year.

Please note that students on part-time programmes where fees are paid on a modular basis cannot pay fees by instalment.

International students are expected to pay tuition fees in line with the date(s) on your invoice or bring evidence that you are in receipt of a scholarship which includes payment of the full fees direct to the University.

An invoice will be sent to your university email account, and you will be expected to pay the first instalment, equal to 50 per cent of your fees, 10 days after the date of your invoice (coinciding with the start of your first semester).

If you are sponsored by your Government or sponsoring agency, you are responsible for ensuring that the University receives the correct sponsorship letter.

You may want to pay part or all of your first year’s tuition fees in advance to help when applying for a student visa.

Applicants with ‘home’ fee status are not required to pay the initial deposit with the following exceptions:

• You have applied for the programmes offered by Guildford School of Acting
• You have applied for the MBA programme
• You have applied for unstructured part-time versions, or distance learning courses. For these programmes, you are required to pay the amount of the first module as your deposit payment.

If the total fee for the year is less than £6,000, applicants are required to pay a deposit of 50 per cent towards the tuition fees.

Pay your deposit

International applicants* are required to pay a deposit of £3,000 towards tuition fees. You can do this through the University's applicant portal.

In some cases, applicants may be asked to pay a higher deposit as part of the University’s enhanced admissions and visa compliance checks. Details of any higher deposit requirement will be available when you accept your offer on the applicant portal.

Once this deposit has been paid, or proof of sponsorship has been provided, and an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate has been obtained if required, a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) can be issued for your Student visa.

*The majority of Surrey undergraduate students progressing on to a masters programme within the University do not need to pay a deposit, with the following exceptions:

• You have applied for the programmes offered by Guildford School of Acting
• You have applied for the MBA programme
• You have applied for unstructured part-time versions, or distance learning courses. For these programmes, you are required to pay the amount of the first module as your deposit payment.

Pay your deposit

Applicants are required to pay a deposit of £2,000* towards tuition fees, except for students in receipt of a studentship or who are being sponsored by an external organisation.

In some cases, applicants may be asked to pay a higher deposit as part of the University’s enhanced admissions and visa compliance checks. Details of any higher deposit requirement will be available when you accept your offer on the applicant portal.

If the total fee for the year is less than £6,000, applicants are required to pay a deposit of 50 per cent towards the tuition fees.

Some programmes may be able to confirm places for students who pay their deposit after the deadline depending on the space on the course, however once your deadline has passed, we may need to withdraw your offer.

*For postgraduate research students starting their studies in July, the deposit amount is 25% of the annual tuition fee, as outlined within the offer letter.

Pay your deposit

If you are going to be sponsored, evidence of sponsorship must be issued by an authorised officer of the official sponsoring body and must have a recent date of issue. To do this you will need to download the external sponsorship form* from our applicant portal. This needs to be filled in by the sponsor and uploaded into the portal by yourself.

International students can only be issued with a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) once satisfactory evidence of sponsorship has been received.

*If you are being sponsored by the University, either through a research council grant or departmental scholarship, your funding information will be sent to the Admissions team by your department. You do not need to arrange for a sponsorship form to be sent.

If your sponsor subsequently fails to pay fees within 30 days of an invoice being issued, the University may no longer recognise them as a sponsor and you will then be invoiced as a self-funded student.

Your tuition fees at Surrey may be referred to as ‘composition fees’.

Composition fees include:

• Tuition
• Registration
• Examination/assessment (but not re-examination/assessment)
• Membership of the Students’ Union.