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 undertaking a course leading to a qualification that gives professional registration in one of the Allied Health Professions. For a list of these courses, please see our course eligibility section.
To meet our residence conditions you must 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 (the first day of the first academic year of your course). For the majority of students who start their course in the autumn term, the relevant date is 1 August.
You must also be ordinarily resident in Scotland on the relevant date, unless you are an English, a Northern Irish or a Welsh domiciled student taking a degree course in one of the Allied Health Professions. In this case, you must be ordinarily resident in your home country at the time you apply for your first year's support.
If you do not meet the conditions above, you may still be eligible to apply for support if you are a:
- UK national or family member of such a national returning from other member states of the EU or from elsewhere in the EEA or Switzerland
- UK national who was born in and has spent the greater part of their life in the UK
- UK national returning from employment or study outside the EEA or Switzerland
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 our residence eligibility conditions
Graduates who:
- have already received support for their first course; and
- entered an undergraduate degree course in one of the Allied Health Profession courses in 2002-2003 or later;
will get free tuition fees, an income-assessed Scottish Government Health Department bursary and a student loan for the first two years from the time they enter the course. We will restrict the funding for any other years of study to the non income-assessed loan only. We will not pay any bursary, supplementary grants or tuition fees. You cannot get this concession if you already hold a degree in one of the Allied Health Professions.