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Tuition and Accommodation Fees

Tuition fees are usually payable in full by the 1st day of the academic year or the 1st day of your course (whichever is later) and accommodation fees are due at the start of each term. Please see the University Term Dates.

All students have the choice to either pay all of their tuition fees for the whole academic year at the start of their course or pay in instalments1. The standard three instalment tuition fee payment schedule is as follows:

  • 50% of tuition fees due by the first day of term 1 (for Academic Year 2024-25 Monday 30th September 2024)
  • 25% of tuition fees due by the first day of term 2 (for Academic Year 2024-25 Monday 6th January 2025)
  • 25% of tuition fees due by the first day of term 3 (for Academic Year 2024-25 Wednesday 23rd April 2025)
Students on modular-based courses

1 Students on modular-based courses in:

  • Warwick Business School (WBS)
  • Warwick Medical School (WMS)
  • Careers
  • the Centre for Lifelong Learning (CLL)
  • the Centre for Education Studies (CES)
  • the Centre for Teacher Education (CTE)
  • the School of Engineering

are required to pay for each module within 21 calendar days of the invoice being applied to their account.

Courses with non-standard start dates

Some of our courses start at different dates throughout the academic year - such as January, March, April, May or June.

If you are undertaking a course with a non-standard start date - such as distance learning MBA Exectuive courses at WBS or a PGCEi course - then the instalment dates can be found here.

Checking your tuition fee payment due dates

For the exact payment due date each term, you can check your payment due dates by logging into your Student Finance account on the Student Records System.

Accommodation fees

Accommodation Fees are payable in advance termly on the first day of each term. You would have received your accommodation fees in your offer from Warwick Accommodation.

You can check your instalments by logging-on to your accommodation offer and selecting the 'review offer' tab. Please be advised that the termly charges are only loaded on to your student account just before the start of the academic year.

If you wish to make a payment before the charges appear on your student account, then you can do this via our Flywire open portalLink opens in a new window remembering to include your student ID number and selecting that you are paying for accommodation so that our finance team can allocate your payment.

Payment by Direct Debit

If you choose to pay your tuition fees and/or accommodation fees by Direct Debit the payment will be collected slightly later than the first day of term. Further information about Direct Debits, including the exact collection dates, can be found on our Direct Debit page.

How to pay

For how to pay fees to the University, please see the Methods of Payment page.

Other Miscellaneous Charges

Other Miscellaneous Charges such as re-sit fees, library charges, accommodation fines or disciplinary fines can be levied on your account at any point in the academic year. Once the charge has been added to your account you will be expected to pay that charge within 21 days.


Please Note: Miscellaneous charges cannot be collected by Direct Debit and should be paid by an alternative method of payment. For details, see the Methods of Payment page.