Help on managing your money while you're at University.
You not only need money to pay for your tuition fees, you also need to budget for your day-to-day living. The amount you'll need for living costs will depend on your circumstances and your own personal tastes. It will also depend on:
Sign up for our online money management course on Canvas. The course is divided into five modules and it takes approximately one hour to finish it:
How am I going to manage? The basics of income and expenditure
Budgeting
Staying safe from fraud
Money and your wellbeing
Supermarket shopping and healthy eating habits
The course is aimed at UK undergraduate students. We’re working to expand the course in the future.
The course isn’t mandatory, and it won’t give you credits towards your degree. You can read through the modules in your own time, there are no deadlines and you do not need to complete it all at once.
You might feel daunted by looking after your money as a student. Setting a budget is a great way to plan how much money you have coming in while taking control of what’s going out. Paying the bills is the priority, but keeping money aside for fun is also important. Learning to manage your money gives you the balance you need while you’re a student, but you’ll also be learning a skill for life.
Budgeting Sessions
Our Student Finance Advisers can help with your budget. You can:
Discuss your current budget and how to improve it
Chat about how to set up a long-term budget
Talk about what might be going wrong if you can’t stick to a budget
Set up a brand new budget from scratch with us
If you’d like a one-to-one budgeting session please get in touch.
International Students
You can find useful information about money management as an International Student through the British Council.
