How much money do you need?[FOR UK EDUCATION]

How much money do you need?

Your money

This page explains how much money you need in order to cover your course fees and your living costs when you apply for an adult student visa under Tier 4 (General) of our points-based system.

The money you will need depends on the length of your course and the location where you will study.

To score 10 points in our points assessment, you must show that you can pay your course fees for your first period of study (or for your next period of study, if you are applying to continue a course) and your living costs for up to nine months.

When you have calculated how much money you will need (see below), the Evidence required section explains how you can prove that you have this amount of money.

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• Money to cover your course fees

• Money to cover your living costs

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  The amount of money you must show to cover your living costs will depend on:
  • where you will be studying in the UK; and
  • whether you have recently been studying in the UK - if you are a current or recent student, we may consider that you have an 'established presence' as a student in the UK .

  Where are you studying?

  We calculate your living costs as:
  • £800 per month if you are spending more than half of your study time in inner London; or
  • £600 per month if you are spending more than half of your study time outside inner London .
  We define 'inner London' as any of the following London boroughs:
  • Camden, Islington, Southwark, City of London, Kensington and Chelsea, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Hammersmith and Fulham, Lewisham, Westminster, Haringey or Newham
  If you want to check whether your main site of study is in inner London, you can enter your Tier 4 sponsor's postcode at the About my vote website . If do not know the address of of your main site of study, you must ask your Tier 4 sponsor.

  Do you have an 'established presence'?

  Any student (including a postgraduate doctor or a student union sabbatical officer) has an established presence studying in the UK if they:
  • completed a single course of study lasting at least six months during their most recent permission to stay in the UK, which ended no more than four months before their current Tier 4 application; or
  • are currently studying a single course, of which they have completed at least six months; or
  • are currently studying, and have completed a single course lasting at least six months during their current permission to stay.
  Additionally, the student's current or most recent permission to stay must have been:
  • under Tier 4; or
  • as a student under the former Immigration Rules that were in force until 30 March 2009; or
  • as a postgraduate doctor or dentist.
  A student cannot amalgamate two or more courses to make up the six months' study.
  Your current location (inside or outside the UK) does not affect whether you have an established presence here as a student .

  How much money do you need?

  If you have an established presence, you must show that you have enough money to cover your living costs for:
  • two months; or
  • the length of your course, if this is less than two months.  
  If you do not have an established presence, you must show that you have enough money to cover your living costs for:
  • nine months; or
  • the length of your course, if this is less than nine months.
  If the length of your course includes a part of a month, we will round the time up to the next month. For example, if a course lasts seven months and two eeks, you must show (unless you have an established presence) that you can pay your living costs for eight months.
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