If you interrupt or withdraw from your studies, your tuition fees will be recalculated based on the number of weeks you have attended during the year. Undergraduate fees are based on 30 weeks' worth of attendance. Please note that in counting the number of weeks we do not include vacation periods (Christmas and Easter).

If you are withdrawn by King’s due to non-payment of your tuition fees, then your fee liability will be recalculated based on the number of weeks you have attended during the year up to the point you were suspended.

Important: tuition fee deposits are non-refundable

Please carefully read the relevant section below for more information:

• If you interrupt or withdraw with a confirmed last date of attendance during the first 2 weeks from the start date of your programme, no tuition fees will be due.
• If you interrupt or withdraw after week 2, then fees will be recalculated according to the number of weeks you attended, using your last date of attendance, as confirmed to the Student Records team by your department.
• This calculation is based on attendance dates of the 30-week undergraduate year September to June.

Calculation:

Programme fee divided by year length (30 weeks) multiplied by number of weeks attended.

Please note, that due to the rules about how student loan fee payments are made to Higher Education Institutions, King’s applies a cap on the maximum amount you will be charged for the period of attendance, in the event that you interrupt your studies or withdraw. This cap is applied consistently to both self-funded and Student Loans Company funded students. Therefore, the maximum amount you will be charged in the event of interruption or withdrawal for each term is;

• 25% for Term 1,
• 50% for Term 2
• 100% for Term 3

Please note that the policy guidance will be updated in due course for Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) funded students.

Where you are self-funded, then any pro-rata calculated fees will be due in full within 14 days from the date of the new invoice.

If you are experiencing financial difficulties, then please contact Credit Control by completing the form to request more time to pay.

If you are experiencing wider financial difficulties and would like to speak to someone about this, then please contact Money Housing and Advice Services (MHAS) for help and support.

• If you interrupt or withdraw, with a confirmed last date of attendance within the first 2 weeks of term, then no fees are due, but remember that the fee deposit is non-refundable. However, if your revised tuition fee is less than your paid deposit and you are interrupting your studies, then this excess amount will be put towards your fees on your return from interruption.
• If you interrupt or withdraw after week 2, then fees will be re-calculated according to the number of weeks you attended, using your last date of attendance prior to interruption or withdrawal, as confirmed by your department.
• Any pro-rata calculated fees left outstanding, will be due in full within 14 days from the date of the new invoice.

Calculation:

Programme fee divided by year length (30 weeks) multiplied by number of weeks attended.

If you are experiencing financial difficulties, then please contact Credit Control by completing the form to request more time to pay.

If you are experiencing wider financial difficulties and would like to speak to someone about this, then please contact Money Housing and Advice Services (MHAS) for help and support.

The date which you wish to return from interruption should be discussed and agreed with your department. In turn, your department can communicate your fee liability which you will need to pay upon your return from interruption. It is the Student Records Team who is responsible for calculating your fee liability and this will be based on the number of remaining weeks to be attended on your return, as agreed with your department.

Please note:

• If you are repeating any period of teaching you have already paid for, then please refer to the 'Active Student – Repeating Teaching' section below.

Home Student

• If you are returning from interruption part-way through the same academic year as you interrupted in, then your fees will be capped to the full-time fee that you would have been charged full attendance for, before you interrupted.
• If you are returning from interruption in a different academic year than that which you interrupted in, then your next fee will be calculated based on the current UK Government regulated fee. Any Undergraduate student returning in September will be expected to pay the balance of one years full fee in line with the current UK Government regulated fee. If you are repeating any period of teaching you have already paid for, then please refer to the 'Active Student – Repeating Teaching' section below.

Overseas Student

• If you are returning from interruption part-way through the same academic year as you interrupted in, then your fees will be capped to the full-time fee that you would have been charged for full attendance before you interrupted.
• If you are returning from interruption in a different academic year than that which you interrupted in, then your next fee will be calculated based on the number of weeks of attendance remaining for the academic year.
• Any Undergraduate student returning in September will be expected to pay the full fee. If you are repeating any period of teaching you have already paid for, then please refer to the 'Active Student – Repeating Teaching' section below.
• Tuition fees for overseas students, typically increase each academic year for returning students. The percentage fee increase for returning students is capped in accordance with the terms and conditions which you commenced your programme on. Where you return from interruption in an academic year other than the year you interrupted in, then the fee which the calculation is performed against, will be subject to cumulative percentage increases for each consecutive year since interruption.

If you are unable to progress into the next year of study, and have been granted further attempts at re-assessment, then you will have to repeat the year.

You can either be an 'Active student – repeat teaching’ or 'dormant' to resubmit failed or deferred assessment.

This means you will not be in attendance for any lectures or tutorials, and you will not have access to laboratories or specialist facilities, although you will still have access to libraries and to KEATS to revise for your exams.

• There is no fee to resit your modules without attendance.
• You will not be eligible for funding by Student Finance England.
• Student Visa holders will not be sponsored for this period and will have to return home.

If you have been offered a period of repeat teaching your student status will be ‘Active’.

Repeat teaching is where a student undertakes the teaching for one or more modules for a second time before they take the assessment or reassessment.

Unless repeat teaching is a statutory requirement or to maintain a clinical skill for a PSRB regulated programme, then from 2025/26 you should not be charged for attending repeat teaching which you have already been charged for.

If repeat teaching is a statutory requirement or to maintain clinical or professional skill for a PSRB regulated programme and you are being reassessed in all components of all modules for that year of the programme, the fees for the repeat year will be charged in full. However, where PSRB programmes mandate students to repeat periods of clinical practice and/or placements to maintain clinical and professional skill, you will be charged a pro-rata fee. This will be outlined in your programme specification.

Where fees are charged on a pro rata basis, then this will be based on the number of credits.

• You need to resit a minimum of 15 credits to be eligible for funding by the Student Loans Company. Please contact the KCL Student Funding Office for more information on this.
• Student Visa holders must take a minimum of 15 credits per semester to be sponsored by the College whilst resitting.
• Please contact your department to clarify which modules you need to resit and whether you are able to resit them as an active student in attendance. This must be done as soon as possible.
• Once your department confirms which modules you are resitting in college, you will be sent an email inviting you to re-enrol for the academic year. You will also be registered for the modules again on KEATS. King’s will confirm the fee liability once your request has been approved.
• Tuition fees typically increase each academic year for overseas students; however, the % course fee increase for returning students is capped in accordance with the terms and conditions which you commenced your programme on. Where you are liable for reassessments, please note that the fee liability calculation will be based on your last academic year tuition fee structure plus any cumulative % cap increase for each academic year.

Calculation:

Programme fee divided by total number of credits for the year of the programme multiplied by number of credits being resat.

General Enquiries

If you have any further questions that you feel are not addressed from the above, please submit your query through Student Services Online and a member of staff will be happy to help you.