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7 April 2025
If you are an international (‘overseas fee’ paying) student, you may qualify for one of our bursaries or alumni discounts:
- Alumni discount
- Family bursary
- Study Abroad, Summer School and exchange bursary
Alumni discount
What: 10% tuition fee discount for our alumni who are progressing to study a postgraduate course at Kingston University, including postgraduate taught, postgraduate research, PGCE, and MArch in Architecture.
Who: all alumni (Home/EU and International) who have attained a bachelor’s degree from Kingston University.
Family bursary
What: 10% tuition fee discount for each year of undergraduate or postgraduate study.
Who: International students (classified as ‘overseas fee paying’) who has a direct family connection (family is defined as sibling, parent, child or spouse) to a student enrolled at Kingston University (‘current student’) or to a student previously enrolled at Kingston University (alumni). Both family members are entitled to receive the bursary if they are studying at the same time.
Study Abroad, Summer School and Exchange student bursary
What: 10% tuition fee discount for each year of undergraduate or postgraduate study.
Who: International students (classified as ‘overseas fee paying’) who previously participated in a Study Abroad, International Summer School, or Exchange programme at Kingston University and are now returning to do a full-time undergraduate or postgraduate degree course. Please note that preparation courses, such as pre-sessional English or short courses, are not eligible (if you have taken a preparation course, you cannot use this to claim the bursary).
Terms and Conditions (Loyalty bursaries and Alumni discount)
- The 10% Alumni discount applies to Home, EU and International fee status students.
- The 10% Family and Study Abroad, Summer School Exchange bursary applies to International fee status students.
- Final decisions on eligibility will be determined by the University.
- The discount cannot be combined with any other alumni or loyalty discount offered by Kingston University including faculty, department or school discounts that may be available.
- If you do not provide appropriate evidence as part of your loyalty bursary application, you will not receive the discount.
- Preparation courses (e.g. short courses and pre-sessional English courses) are not eligible for the 10% discount.
- The 10% discount does not apply to any undergraduate or postgraduate placement year fees (the 10% discount is only applicable for ‘taught’ years of study).
- The 10% Family bursary will only be applied to both family members if they are fully enrolled (‘current students’) and studying at the same time. At the date of enrolment this criteria needs to be met and cannot be reviewed retrospectively.