To be eligible to apply for support you must meet our residence conditions as set out in The Students' Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (as amended) and be studying a course of higher education at HNC or equivalent level or above. For more information on courses that we do and do not assist, please see our course eligibility section.
EU tuition fees only award
To be eligible to apply for payment of EU tuition fees only, you must meet the following conditions
- You are a non-UK EU national, an EU overseas territories national or the family member of either.
- You have been ordinarily resident in the EU, the EU overseas territories, elsewhere in the EEA or Switzerland for the three years immediately before the first day of the first academic year of your course (the relevant date).
- You are taking a course of full-time study in Scotland and plan to graduate in Scotland .
For the majority of students who start a course in the autumn term the 'relevant date' is 1 August.
Full-support package available award
To be eligible to apply for the full-support package available (tuition fees, loan, bursary and supplementary grants), you must:
- be a non-UK EU national or the child of such a national;
- have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for the three years immediately before the relevant date; and
- be ordinarily resident in Scotland on the relevant date.
If you have not been living in the UK for three years, you may still be eligible to apply for the full-support package available if you meet our migrant or frontier worker/self employed person conditions.
The residence eligibility conditions are complicated. If you are in any doubt about your residence eligibility status, you should contact us for advice.
If you have done a course of higher education before, this may affect the level of support you are entitled to. Please see our previous assistance section for more information.
Find out more about the eligibility conditions for non-UK EU nationals