Undergraduate, overseas and postgraduate students will be classified as a 'sponsored' student where your tuition fees are being paid to King’s College London directly from an external organisation.

Please Note: a family member/friend does not count as a sponsor and you will be recorded as a self-funded student. A sponsor is an official organisation only.

At the start of each academic year, you will be asked to complete your enrolment via an online task, and as part of this task, you will be asked to confirm if you (or a family member/friend) are paying your own tuition fees (self-funded) or if you are being sponsored.

If you are being sponsored, you will need to upload evidence of your funding in the enrolment task, which would normally be in the form of a formal letter on your sponsor's company-headed paper confirming that they will be paying your tuition fees to King’s College London directly.

Once your evidence of funding is accepted by King’s, your sponsor will be sent an invoice in pounds sterling. The invoice will be generated at the beginning of your academic year of enrolment for the amount they have agreed to fund and it will be due for payment within 30 days from invoice date.

Failure of your sponsor to pay the invoice by the due date, may result in the invoice being reverted to you to pay within 14 days

The confirmation of sponsorship document must be on company headed paper, addressed to King's College London and clearly outline the following information:

• Full name of the organisation paying your fees
• Invoicing address of the organisation paying your fees
• Email address the invoice should be sent to
• The amount/percentage of your fees that your sponsor is paying for that academic year
• Contact details (including name and email) of the authorising person
• Reference number/purchase order number to be listed on invoice where required by your sponsor (Please note: a Purchase Order is mandatory for most NHS Trusts and government departments)

Evidence of funding should be provided as a general rule, however there are particular requirements that must be fulfilled before we can invoice your sponsor. Please visit our Sponsorship Evidence Requirements for further information on sponsorship requirements.

Once you provide valid sponsor details, the information will be entered into the system by the appropriate team. When the invoice is ready to be produced, it will automatically be sent to your sponsor for payment within 30 days.

If you have received an invoice by email asking you to pay tuition fees yourself, but you have secured funding from an external sponsor, then we can arrange for this to be adjusted so that your sponsor is invoiced.

Evidence of funding secured after enrolment can be uploaded through the Update Sponsorship Information task in your student records portal.

For students in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC), please send your evidence using the email addresses below, according to your level of study:

• Undergraduate students: nmpc-prereg-progs@kcl.ac.uk.
• Postgraduate taught students: NMPC-Contracts@kcl.ac.uk.

Your evidence of funding will be checked when received. Your sponsorship record will then be set up in the system and the Credit Control billing team will be notified.

An invoice will then be generated and emailed to your sponsor and will be payable within 30 calendar days. If the sponsorship is only for part of the total tuition fee, then you will be sent a new invoice by email, for the balance of the fee due, which will also be available to view and/or print on your student records portal.

Whilst we expect that in agreeing to fund your fees, your sponsor can meet the due date set out in the college terms, there is a degree of flexibility. In such instances, we would ask that you contact Credit Control to discuss your concerns to see if we can facilitate your request.