Distance Learning - Fees

This page offers a useful guide to your course fees, and how you can pay them.

Distance learning taught course fees

The tuition fees for our taught distance learning courses vary according to the programme. Please see individual course pages to find out the fees for online courses at Huddersfield for the current academic year.

If you're interested in studying a research distance learning degree, please see our tuition fees for research degrees for more information. 

Payment options

You can pay your fees in one of the following ways:

1. Pay your course fee in full when you enrol.
2. Pay in instalments: you can pay for your course in instalments, per academic year of study. This means your course fee is divided between the years of study. Payment schedule examples are below. 
3. Payment in termly instalments using your UK government postgraduate loan. Payment instalments are set by the Student Finance Office and align with postgraduate loan payments.

(Payment by instalments is not available to students joining a course via our Performance Based Admissions (PBA) entry route or students in receipt of employer sponsorship).

September entry	November entry	January entry	February entry	May entry
50% of Year 1 fees on enrolment	50% of Year 1 fees on enrolment	50% of Year 1 fees on enrolment	50% of Year 1 fees on enrolment	50% of Year 1 fees on enrolment
2nd 50% of Year 1 fees due no later than 31 January	2nd 50% of Year 1 fees due no later than 31 March	2nd 50% of Year 1 fees due no later than 31 May	2nd 50% of Year 1 fees due no later than 30 June	2nd 50% of Year 1 fees due no later than 30  September
In subsequent years, your fees deadlines will be 50% prior to re-registration and 50% by 31 January	In subsequent years, your fees deadlines will be 50% prior to re-registration and 50% by 31 March	In subsequent years, your fees deadlines will be 50% prior to re-registration and 50% by 31 May	In subsequent years, your fees deadlines will be 50% prior to re-registration and 50% by 30 June	In subsequent years, your fees deadlines will be 50% prior to re-registration and 50% by 30 September

 

For example, if you are starting a two-year, part-time degree in September and your total course fee is £10,000, you would pay £5000 per academic year. The first instalment, which is paid when you enrol, would be £2,500. The second instalment of £2,500 would be due before 31 January. These two instalments would be repeated in your second year.

Ad-hoc payments can also be made, providing you keep to the payment deadlines stated in the above table.

Please note, if you pay in yearly instalments, your tuition fee may increase after the first year of study, rising in line with inflation (RPI-X).

How to pay your fees

You can either pay the fees yourself, provide us with evidence that your fees (in part or in full) will be paid by a sponsor, or paid by a Postgraduate Student Loan.  

Self-funded

Our preferred method of payment is through Flywire, where both credit/debit card and bank transfer payments can be made. We do not accept direct bank transfers. 

You can pay online through our secure Payment Gateway using a credit or debit card.  If you are an international student, please follow this link. This information will be detailed in your enrolment email.

If you are new to Flywire, here's a helpful step-by-step guide on making a payment.

Payment from an employer or sponsor

If you are sponsored by your employer, we require confirmation from your sponsor/employer that they are happy to fund your tuition fees. This can be provided by email to sfo@hud.ac.uk, and should include the following details:

• Student Name
• Student Number
• Amount of sponsorship
• Address to which invoice should be sent
• Email address to which invoice should be sent
• Purchase Order Number, if required

If you are being partially sponsored, you will need to either pay your contribution of the fee in full, or set up a payment arrangement, with the first payment being made on the pre-enrolment portal using a credit/debit card and the remaining instalments being taken by recurring card payments. 

This sponsor must be one which we recognise as acceptable, for example, your employer, or your government embassy. 

Employers will be invoiced for the appropriate fee as soon as possible and the invoice will be payable within 28 days of the invoice date. We regret that we are unable to allow employers to pay in instalments. 

Student Finance England

If you are in receipt of the Postgraduate Loan from Student Finance England to pay your fees, you will be directed to enter your credit/debit card details into a secure webpage upon enrolment. Should you not be directed to this webpage, please contact our Student Finance Office at sfo@hud.ac.uk. 

 

Contacting Student Finance Office for help

You can email our Student Finance Office at sfo@hud.ac.uk.

We also have online drop-in sessions daily over Microsoft Teams, which you can join between 10am and 12.00pm or 1.00pm and 3.00pm (UK time). 

Private appointments are available. If you would like to discuss any finance issues confidentially, please book an appointment.

 

Goods and Services Tax for international students 

To comply with legislative changes surrounding goods and services tax on digital services, the University of Huddersfield is working with relevant tax authorities across the globe to establish Goods and Services Tax responsibilities. Once there is clarity on the status of each country, this webpage will be updated. 

To date, the University has not finalised costs or compliance with any country. When the cost and compliance for the Goods and Services Tax for each country has been finalised, you will be made aware of this charge at the point of an offer being made. This charge will only be applied to future cohorts and will not be retrospectively applied to students who are already enrolled onto an existing programme.