Asylum Seekers Fee Concession

About the award

Level: Undergraduate
Course: All
Country/Region: United Kingdom
Value: Reduction in fees payable
No. of awards: Various
Deadline: 1 September 2025

More information

We are pleased to offer a tuition fee concession to all asylum seekers or children of asylum seekers who meet the eligibility criteria. While your asylum application is under consideration by the Home Office, you will be entitled to pay the ‘home’ rate of tuition fees. This fee concession will be available to all undergraduate students on all programmes, except those courses offered by the School of Medicine and Dentistry that lead to qualified status as a doctor, dentist, or dental hygienist or therapist.

Eligibility

To be considered for an asylum seekers fee concession, you must meet the following requirements:

• you or your parent/guardian or spouse/partner must have submitted an asylum or human rights application, which is awaiting a decision from the Home Office;
• you or your parent/guardian or spouse/partner have applied for asylum before applying to study at university;
• you hold a conditional or unconditional offer to study at Queen Mary University of London in the following academic year AND accepted this firmly;
• you have not completed undergraduate degree level study elsewhere.

Application process

Step 1

Eligible students are normally identified by the Admissions Office through our standard process of fee status assessment. However, if you have not been contacted for further fee status assessment and you believe you are eligible for an asylum seekers’ tuition fee concession, contact the Admissions team via your application portal with evidence of your immigration permission if you wish to be considered.

Please inform us in writing no later than 1 September if you wish to be considered for this concession.

Step 2

You may be asked for further information or to complete a fee status questionnaire, if you have not already, to evaluate your eligibility for the fee concession. The Admissions Office will request information as necessary.

Step 3

Fee concession requests are evaluated by the Admissions Office and students are sent an updated Fees Invoice.

Terms and Conditions

Fee concessions will be awarded automatically to students who enrol at Queen Mary University of London, subject to the following terms and conditions.

1. You must meet the general eligibility criteria set out above.
2. You must be holding a conditional or unconditional offer of a place on an undergraduate programme, except those courses offered by the School of Medicine and Dentistry that lead to qualified status as a doctor, dentist or dental hygienist or therapist.
3. You must have accepted your offer from Queen Mary University of London as your firm (first) choice.
4. The award will remain in place while your asylum application is under consideration by the Home Office. During this period your fee status will be recorded as ‘overseas’ but you will be required only to pay the ‘home’ rate of tuition fee. If or when your asylum application is successful and you are granted refugee status, your fee status will be changed to ‘home’. Please contact the Admissions Office (admissions@qmul.ac.uk) if your status changes.
5. The award will be provided in each standard year of study for the course to which you are admitted. Extension of the award to cover repeat years of study or additional years resulting from a change of programme, e.g. from three to four years, will be approved on a discretionary basis only.
6. You will be required to provide evidence of your immigration status annually in advance of enrolment in September. We reserve the right to verify your immigration status with the Home Office.
7. Awards are discretionary and we reserve the right to withdraw awards if we receive information from the Home Office that you should not be studying in the UK.

Further Information

If you have any questions or would like further information about the Asylum Seekers’ tuition fee concessions, please contact the Admissions Office:
admissions@qmul.ac.uk