Full-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 options and decide which one applies to you.

Tuition fee and living cost student

You could get tuition fees and living costs if you meet the following criteria. This is sometimes called Welsh student funding.

You can apply for 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

You'll also need to live in Wales on or before the first day of the first academic year of your course.

You can also have other 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

You could get tuition fee only funding if you meet the following criteria. This is sometimes called EU student funding.

You can apply for tuition fee only funding if all the following apply:

  • you are not able to identify as a tuition fees and living costs student (Welsh student)
  • 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.