If you start a full-time or part-time master’s course in Scotland and you are Scottish domiciled, you can apply for a Postgraduate Loan from SAAS for eligible courses. You’ll be able to borrow up to £10,000 in total to pay your fees and help with living costs.  SAAS will only fund a course elsewhere in the UK if it’s not available in Scotland.

Tuition fee loans will be provided for full time EU students undertaking an eligible  postgraduate course commencing in 2020-21 and part time students starting a course taken over two years from 2019-20 or 2020-21. 

Distance Learning Masters – Courses undertaken at a non-campus based institutions such as OU may be eligible for funding providing they meet all other rules of the scheme.

Please click on this link for further information on Postgraduate Loans.

RUK students need to apply to their own Local Education Authority for funding support to study in Scotland 

Research Masters courses are not funded unless there is a taught element.

Pre-Registration Nursing Courses are not funded through the Postgraduate loan scheme.

Discretionary Fund

This fund is available to help with study and living costs if you are struggling financially. There are certain eligibility criteria that need to be met in order to apply.

Childcare

Funds are available for Home students to help towards registered childcare costs during term time. These costs may include a nursery, child minder or after school care. You can only apply for help towards days for which you are timetabled to attend GCU or placements. International and EU (fee only funded) students cannot apply to this fund.

Disabled students allowance

DSA is extra help for students who have a disability, a mental health condition, or specific learning difficulty, like dyslexia or dyspraxia.

Managing your money & debt advice

We have a lot of advice on how to best help you manage your money.

Other sources of funding

This page provides links and useful information on various sources of funding that students can apply to for help with tuition fees (if you are self-funding) or general study and living costs.