You will not be charged tuition fees if you withdraw by the Friday of the fourth week after your campus enrolment date in your first year of study.

After this date, you are liable to pay pro-rata fees up to the Friday after your last day of attendance*. The Fees Office will be notified of your withdrawal and will refund any overpayments.

If you are granted an interruption of studies and decide to permanently withdraw from your programme during the interruption period, you will have your fees recalculated to account for the teaching you received prior to interruption. 

For more information about the tuition fee policy as it relates to interruptions and withdrawals, please visit Fees Income and Credit Control. 

Students reliant on funds from the Student Loans Company (SLC) to pay their fees will be charged a fee in line with the schedule of loan payments from the SLC (i.e. up to 25% of the fee if the withdrawal applies before the end of Autumn Term, up to 50% of the fee if the withdrawal applies before the end of Winter Term and up to 100% of the fee if the withdrawal applies before the end of Spring Term).

*First year students on the MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management or the Executive MSc in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Sciences who withdraw on or before the fourth day of teaching will not be charged fees. Students who withdraw after this date will be charged half the annual fee if they have attended one unit of teaching, and the full annual fee if they have attended two units of teaching.

First year students on other executive programmes who withdraw on or before the fourth day of teaching during their first module will not be charged fees. Students who withdraw after this date will be charged pro-rata according to the amount of teaching they have taken

Official Withdrawal for the purposes of Federal Aid

Official withdrawal will be the student’s Last Date of Attendance as signed off by the Academic Department and recorded in the School’s record system, tuition fees will be calculated accordingly. The University will also report the withdrawal via the National Student Loan Database (NSLDS).

Unofficial withdrawal for the purposes of Federal Aid

Students who have stopped attending classes and did not follow the official withdrawal process of the School or made contact with their Academic Department to confirm reason for nonattendance are considered as being on an “unauthorized break” from their studies for the purposes of Federal Aid .  At this stage, the student record will be updated, and the last date of attendance recorded in the School’s system. The same date will be used to calculate any outstanding fees for the relevant academic year and in conjunction with U.S. Federal regulations, a calculation of Return to Title IV funds will be undertaken using the last date of attendance during the Academic Semester.

Please refer to the Schools RT24 Policy for further details.