Finance Information for Home Fee Status and Financial Information Form

Finance information for Home Fee Status and Financial Information Form (2025 entry)

When applying to university, you'll need to consider a range of costs, including tuition fees and living costs. The information on this page is for offer holders with Home fee status. However, if your Student Support application is unsuccessful on grounds of residence or immigration status, then you may be reclassified as having International fee status, and be subject to the higher rate of tuition fees and a College fee. If this happens to you, then you must inform the College in writing.

There’s a range of financial help available to students at Cambridge, including Government Financial Support and Cambridge Financial Support. Eligibility for other government and University funding usually depends on your financial circumstances.

The information on this page has been divided into the following sections for ease of navigation. Please have a look at the information as relevant to you:

Tuition fees and categories
Living costs
Government Financial Support
Cambridge Financial Support
Robinson College's requirement of all UK Offer Holders
What to do if you are paying your own Tuition Fees (i.e. self-funding), and not applying for Government Financial Support

1. Tuition Fees and Categories

The tuition fee for Home fee status students starting their first undergraduate degree in 2025 will be £9,535 (subject to approval) for the year. The government regulated tuition fee for 2026-27 hasn't been set. It may be different from the tuition fee for 2025 and details will be published here as soon as they are available.
Home fee status students can take out a government loan for their tuition fees. At the moment, payment of this loan can be deferred until you've left university and are earning a minimum salary, at which point the loan is repaid in instalments. Please check information on government financial support and contact the appropriate student finance award agency for details about tuition fee support.

2. Living Costs

'Living costs' cover whatever you need to pay for, excluding tuition fees, while you're at university – for example, accommodation, food, study materials, personal expenses and transport. Find out more

3. Government Financial Support

Support arrangements can also vary according to where you're from in the UK. You should refer to the appropriate finance award agency website, listed below, for the most up-to-date information, guidance and how to apply:

Student Finance England and Non UK Team (For students who are resident in England)
Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) (For students who are resident in Scotland)
Student Finance Wales (For Students are who are resident in Wales)
Student Finance NI (For students who are resident in Northern Ireland)

You’re strongly advised to apply for financial support as early as possible, and you don’t need a confirmed place at a university to apply for this. We expect student finance applications for full-time undergraduates to launch in early March.

4. Cambridge Financial Support

Cambridge Bursary Scheme: You must apply for a student loan/financial assistance through your own regional Student Finance body (see above) in order to be eligible for the Cambridge Bursary. There is no separate application process for the bursary. Your household income figure calculated by your student finance body is used as the basis on which to determine the level of Cambridge Bursary you will receive.

5. Robinson College's requirement of all UK Offer Holders

Complete the College Financial Information Form. If you answer 'Yes' to Questions 1, 2 and 3, simply add your name and subject to the form only. You do not need to give any further details, or complete, or sign the declaration on the next page.
Important note about the Financial Information Form; all offer holders must provide this financial information which is then passed to our finance office.

Email the completed form to apply@robinson.cam.ac.uk (by 9am on Monday 9th June 2025).

If your Student loan application is successful, you will receive a Letter of Entitlement from Student Finance, included is a document entitled ‘University or College Payment Advice’. You will find your copy by logging in to the relevant Student Finance website; search for the 'Documents' section and download your Letter of Entitlement. Please email this document to the college at apply@robinson.cam.ac.uk

Your Letter of Entitlement was be considered confirmation of your loan as soon as you receive it. We understand that Student Finance Agencies experience a high workload at certain times in the year and that this may result in a delay. We therefore also use the above date as the point at which we will contact you for an update on your progress.

If you are not able to meet these deadlines, please contact the Admissions Team at the College; apply@robinson.cam.ac.uk

6. What to do if you plan to pay your own Tuition Fees (i.e. if you are Self-Funding), and you are not applying for Government Financial Support

If you do not plan to apply for a Student Loan to finance your studies, you are asked to send further information to us which indicates that you understand the overall financial cost of paying for your tuition fees and your living costs for the duration of your course, plus details on how you intend to fund such costs. This may include your own personal savings, your parents' earnings and/or savings, any grant or scholarship you may have been awarded, or any other gift you have received. We may ask for further evidence and documentation to support your statement.

Prepare to complete your Financial Information Form, where you are asked to explain how you are going to pay for your tuition fees and your living costs for the duration of your course

Calculate the total cost of your tuition fees for the duration of your course:

If your course is 3/4 years, please provide information for the duration of 3 years
If your course is 5/6 years, please provide information for the duration of 5 years

Calculate the total cost of your living costs (maintenance) for the duration of your course:

Please read the University's advice on living costs here; we would like you to calculate living costs for the duration of your course
Please note that the term 'living costs' includes accommodation, food, study materials, personal expenses and transport
The signature on the form must be a real signature
Once you have completed the form, please sign and then copy and scan the form and return it to us at apply@robinson.cam.ac.uk.

Important note about the Financial Information Form; all offer holders must provide this financial information which is then passed to our finance office for assessment.

Email the completed form to apply@robinson.cam.ac.uk (by 9am on 9th June 2025).

7. What to do if you plan to apply for Government Financial Support for your tuition fees, but you plan to self-fund your living costs

You will need to send a copy of this document to the College as confirmation of your loan (by 9am on 9th June 2025). We understand that Student Finance Agencies experience a high workload at certain times in the year and that this may result in a delay. We therefore also use the below date as the point at which we will contact you for an update on your progress.

Prepare to complete the Financial Information Form, where you are asked to explain how you are going to pay for your living costs for the duration of your course

Please read the University's advice on living costs here; we would like you to calculate living costs for the duration of your course
Please note that the term 'living costs' includes accommodation, food, study materials, personal expenses and transport
The signature on the form must be a real signature
Once you have completed the form, please sign and then copy and scan the form and return it to us.

Important note about the Financial Information Form; all offer holders must provide this financial information which is then passed to our finance office for assessment.

Email the completed form to apply@robinson.cam.ac.uk (by 9am on 9th June 2025).

Updated September 2024

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