Tuition fees for Postgraduate Taught Overseas Students
Tuition fees information for Overseas Postgraduate Taught students.
Your tuition fee
Your offer letter included the rate of tuition fee payable for your particular programme of study in 2023/24. We recommend that you check your fee in advance of arriving by using the Fees Look-up tool:
The tuition fee you pay in your first year will be the same for each year of your course (if the course is longer than one year). This is only applicable if you stay on the same course. If you change course you may be subject to a higher rate in subsequent years of study.
Self-financed students are required to pay a deposit of £1000, except for some programmes of study in Dentistry where the deposit is £5000. Contact the department for further information.
To pay your deposit, use our online tuition fee deposit payment system.
You do not need to pay a deposit if you have a sponsor who is paying your tuition fee: see the section 'Sponsored Students' below.
Important information
Fee Status - Home or Overseas
If you think you'll qualify for 'home' fees at some point in the future, you're best advised to defer your entry until then. Check our Fee status page carefully to make sure you've understood the rules correctly.
Financial declaration
All students must complete the Financial Declaration, online, in advance:
You will be sent a link, via email, asking you to complete your pre-registration actions; this includes completing the Financial Declaration.
Tuition fee fraud
If a company, or someone online, offers to pay your fees at a reduced price, do not respond.
Never share your personal information (including your University username and password) with anyone else.
These services are not authorised by the University of Sheffield. If you use these services, you may lose your money. This is because there is no guarantee that payments will be correctly paid to the University.
These services may be recommended to you by friends or family who do not realise the services are not legitimate.
Always check the University website to check the correct way to pay your tuition fees.
If you have any doubts or questions, always contact the University for help: studentcustomers@sheffield.ac.uk
How to avoid fraud:
- Be wary of approaches made on WeChat, Facebook, Instagram, or any other method
- Only pay tuition fees directly to the University (not through a company or service)
- Never share share personal information or your University username and password)
- Don’t be pressured into making payments - criminals will try to rush or panic you
- Don’t pay any type of tuition fee in cash through WeChat
Learn more:
- Complete the University’s information security training
- Tuition fee scam info leaflet, English (PDF, 2.15MB)
- Tuition fee scam info leaflet, Mandarin (PDF, 2.42MB)
How to pay your tuition fee
Sponsored students
If you are being sponsored by an external organisation, see this page to find out about what you need to do:
Self-funded students
You will be sent a link asking you to complete your pre-registration actions. This is where you pay your tuition fee online, in advance of the course start date. You must complete the Financial Declaration first.
Before you arrange to pay your tuition fee you must, first of all, have completed the Financial Declaration and paid your deposit of £1000 via our online tuition fee deposit payment system. Then you need to return to your pre-registration actions to complete your payment plan. If you do not pay your deposit first then you will have to pay your tuition fee in full, ie you will not be given the option to pay your tuition fee in instalments until you have paid your deposit. If you wish to pay in instalments and you have paid your deposit, the £1000 will be deducted from your first instalment.
Paying your tuition fee is an integral part of registration at the University. We advise you to arrange your fee payments in advance of your arrival. If you are unable to do this then you must arrange to pay tuition fees before you attend Registration.
Once you have completed your online Financial Declaration (see above) you can arrange payment according to the Payment Plans set out below.
Invoices: unlike some other universities, we do not defer the collection of tuition fees until later in the year and we do not issue invoices to self-financed students.
Payment Plans: Self-funded Students
Payment Plan 1 : Payment in full
- Make a payment by card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express)
- Make a single payment by Bank Transfer or a range of online payment options (using our international payments Convera for students)
For more information about this, watch this short video
For payment of fees by Convera you can track your payment here.
Students from India: Information in Hindi
Student from China:
Payment Plan 2: Payment in two instalments
If your share of the tuition fee is £1000 or more and you are in attendance for the full academic year, you can pay your tuition fee in two instalments. Example: you will pay 50% on 1 October and 50% on 1 February.
Acceptable payment methods to pay two instalments are:
- Direct Debit, from a UK current bank account. To allow your bank time to set this up, this payment option is only available until two weeks before the first instalment date
- Card payment - by Visa, Mastercard, American Express
Additional information
Scholarships
Our International Students pages have details of the various types of scholarship available.
When are my payments due if my registration start date is not between August - October?
If you are registering at any other time of year (ie. not between August - October), your payment dates will be one of the following:
- Payment in full at registration, or
- 50% when you register and then the remaining balance four months later
What if I cannot pay or provide a sponsor letter in advance or at registration?
You should plan to pay your fee for your first year of study on the day that you register, if you have not already paid in advance.
If you have a good reason for delaying payment (eg you are still awaiting a letter from your sponsor), temporary registration will be given for up to three weeks. You must provide the missing documentation and/or payment within this three-week period.
Will the University send a receipt for any payment made in advance?
Due to the high volume of payments received at this time of year, the University does not generally issue receipts; however, if you pay your fees online, in advance of your arrival, the card/account holder will receive an email confirming payment.
What happens if I default on my payment?
If a payment does not reach the University as required and you have not made contact in advance:
- Your registration will be subject to immediate review and could be cancelled.
- Your computer facilities could be cancelled.
- Your registration may only be renewed once you have paid all of your fee or have made a satisfactory arrangement to pay your fee.
The University reserves the right to insist that payment is made in full at the start of each year of study. It is therefore in your interests to honour all payments if you wish to continue to pay in instalments in future years.