UK Students
Tuition Fees for 2025 Entry for UK Degree Students
For 2025 entry LIPA expects to charge £9,535 a year for UK full-time undergraduates starting our degree courses in the new teaching year in the autumn of 2025. This is the maximum tuition fee and is set by the government.
This may be subject to further inflationary increases for both new and continuing students in subsequent academic years, if allowed within the Government fee cap.
Most full-time UK students will be able to take out a tuition fee loan for each year of their course. This loan is not means-tested which means that your household income will not affect whether you get it or not. You don’t have to start paying your loan back until the April after you leave LIPA and even then, only if you are working and earning more than a repayment threshold – currently set at £25,000 a year. Your monthly repayment will be a small percentage of your income so it should seem affordable.
Your Tuition Fee Loan covers all your tuition costs and will be paid directly to LIPA. This means you only have to budget for your living costs.
Financial Support for Cost of Living Expenses for UK Degree Students
The Maintenance Loan is available to help with your cost of living, such as rent, food, books, travel and other expenses while you're studying. The amount you can get depends on your household income.
The maximum Maintenance Loan for a first-year student living away from home and studying outside London in 2025/26 will be £10,544. The Maintenance Loan will normally be paid into your bank account, usually in three instalments at the start of each term, the first within five working days after enrolment (providing you have applied for student finance by the required deadline).
Students will also be able to apply for grants if they’re eligible for certain benefits, disabled or need help with childcare costs.
Students Living in England
The fastest and easiest way to apply is online at https://www.gov.uk/student-finance
You can apply as soon as their application service opens to make sure you have your money sorted for the start of your course. You can use your preferred choice of course when applying and can change the details online later, if you need to.
If you're applying for student finance that depends on your household income they will need some information from your parents or partner too.
To find more information about student finance please visit https://www.gov.uk/student-finance
Students Living in Scotland
A Tuition Fee Loan is available, together with a range of other loans and bursaries if you are studying outside Scotland. These are outlined in detail at www.saas.gov.uk
You can apply as soon as their application service opens to make sure you have your money sorted for the start of your course.
Students Living in Northern Ireland
You can apply online through www.studentfinanceni.co.uk or by paper application (PN1 form) through your Education Authority regional office.
You can apply as soon as their application service opens to make sure you have your money sorted for the start of your course.
Students Living in Wales
You can apply either online through www.studentfinancewales.co.uk or using a paper application form. You can obtain further information from your Local Authority (LA) or by going to www.studentfinancewales.co.uk
You can apply as soon as their application service opens to make sure you have your money sorted for the start of your course.
International Students
Tuition fees for 2025 entry for EU and international degree students
The international tuition fee for 2025 entry varies by course and is listed on the individual course page. Your tuition fee is fixed for each year you study with us. After you have been made an offer, we will request a £2,000 deposit, payable by the end of May 2025. The remaining tuition fee for that year is payable at the start of the teaching year on or before enrolment. Depending on your funding arrangements, an instalment agreement may be available. Terms and conditions are provided on the LIPA application form.
Postgraduate funding from Student Finance England
A Postgraduate Master's Loan is funding to help with course and living costs while studying a postgraduate masters-level course. The yearly maximum loan amount available for September entry is usually published in May/June of the same year. As a guide, for 2023 entry, this amount was up to £12,167 per student.
To be eligible, you must be under the age of 60 at the commencement of the course and you'll need to meet certain nationality or residency criteria.
Postgraduate loans are not available if you have an equivalent or higher level qualification already or are behind in repayments for any previous loans from the Student Loans Company.
To find out more visit www.gov.uk/funding-for-postgraduate-study.
Bursaries and Travel Grants
LIPA Bursary for 2025 Entry
Our LIPA Bursary provides a cash award in each year that eligible students study with us.
In 2025 we plan to offer a LIPA bursary of £575 (annual cash award) to all of our students from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland who can demonstrate to us that they are in receipt of the full maintenance loan allowance. Anyone who can demonstrate this, should receive a bursary of £575 in February of each year of their studies, provided they are still in attendance.
LIPA’s Care Leavers & Estranged Students bursary
We offer an annual £1,000 bursary to UK students who are either:
- Under 25 and who can demonstrate that they have been in care prior to their 16th birthday for a period of six months or more, or
- Under 25 and can demonstrate that they have been assessed by Student Finance as an independent student due to estrangement from their parents (either biological or adoptive).
This bursary is offered in recognition that care leavers and estranged students may need assistance towards their accommodation costs for vacation periods. Bursaries are awarded to qualifying full-time UK undergraduates for each year of their course of study with us subject to satisfactory academic progress.
Auditions and interview travel grants
We automatically offer audition/interview travel grants to UK applicants invited to audition/interview in person here, who we identify as being from areas where participation in higher education is traditionally low. We are able to identify eligible applicants based on postcode data. More information about our travel grants can on our Frequently Asked Questions document. We do not charge an audition or interview fee.