Tuition Fee & Refund Policy   

1. An International student has to pay a minimum Deposit of £1000 for Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses, and £500 for all other courses, along with the application, which would be adjusted against the student’s course fee on enrolment. Any additional amount the student is willing to pay on application is accepted as fees in advance.

   Home Students have to pay a minimum Fee of £500 for all the courses on admission, and it is non-refundable.
   
2. All fees must be settled in full prior to the commencement of the course or upon the enrolment if later.

3. The College gives the student an option of paying the fees in two equal installments. The first installment has to be paid prior to the commencement of the course or on enrolment and the second installment within six months from the date of commencement of the course. The College would charge the student an additional fee of £50 for the option.

4. You can pay your tuition fees either by a direct bank transfer, bank draft, cash or cheque on the college name only. You can also pay a direct debit if you have a bank account in United Kingdom.

5. Do not pay any tuition fees to anyone else but the college. Do not deposit tuition fee with third parties or send money to us by post. Some of our approved overseas representatives will accept bank drafts, made payable to the college only. Do not pay any or all of your tuition fees to overseas representatives, if you pay any deposit you need to obtain receipt from the college immediately with our college signed by authorised person and stamp. We advise the students to email or inform us whenever they make payments to the overseas agents/consultants. If you have any doubts, please do not hesitate to contact us over phone, fax or email

6. Those students who do not produce satisfactory documentary evidence that they met the course’s English language admissions requirement are required to pay a deposit of £1500 of which a sum of £500 covers the part cost of a 6 months English Certification course in the event that a student does not satisfy the course’s English language requirement after taking the College’s diagnostic English language test. However, if such a student does satisfy the relevant English language requirement, the £500 will be set against the substantive course fee.

7. At the end of the course, all the students have to pay an examination fee. If any student fails to pay the examination fee in time, he or she will not be allowed to undergo the final examination.

8. Those students who have produced satisfactory documentary evidence that they meet the course’s English language admissions requirement, but do not pass the College’s diagnostic English language test at registration, will be required to attend the College’s 6 months English language course at a cost of £1500 payable prior to course commencement.

9. An offer of a course place is for a specific intake. Fees paid will not be carried forward if you transfer to the next intake unless your reason for seeking such a transfer is that   

   1. You were unable to register in time for the intake you expected to join because delays were experienced in securing a visa; or

   2. You are required to take an English Language programme previously referred to.    

10. Students requiring a student visa to enter or remain in the UK may claim a refund of the tuition fee paid (less administrative charge of £150) only if their visa application has been refused and the college is informed of this prior to the commencement of the course. The application for the refund must be accompanied by a copy of the refusal letter from the British Embassy or High Commission and the copies of the passport. If the college is informed of the refusal after the commencement of the course, one term’

11. In the event of cancellation, for whatever reason, the following will apply:

    1. Cancellations must be made in writing and will only be considered to have been made on the date on which they are received by the Admissions Office

    2. For cancellations which are received more than eight weeks before the course  commencement date an administrative charge of £250 will be deducted from the deposit and any balance held will be refunded.

    3. For cancellations received less than eight weeks before the commencement date the  deposit will not be refunded but the balance of any fees will be refunded.

    4. Where cancellations are received after the course commencement date, for whatever  reason, no refund will be given. In addition. Any balance of outstanding fees on the  student’

    5. Overseas students should note that where a statement has been sent to the Home Office to support a student visa application, the College must notify the Home Office of any cancellation.

    6. For students who are not successful in obtaining a visa a refund will be granted after a deduction of £150 towards administrative charges, on the receipt of a written request and a copy of the official visa refusal letter issued by the relevant British High Commission/Embassy.

12. In the case of Provisional Applicants, if the examination results are unsatisfactory, the College should be notified in writing within 14 days of the publication of the results, following which any fees or deposits paid in respect of the conditional admission will be refunded after deducting an amount of £250 towards administrative charges

13. Fee is not refundable if, after the commencement of the course, the student stops attending or leaves the course before its completion or is suspended by the college owing to non-attendance, misconducts etc.

14. No refunds are due where students have postponed the commencement of their course in the UK.

15. Where students change their course of study during the term, no refund will be given for the revised course if it involves fewer subjects. Additional fees will be payable for the revised course if it involves an increased number of subjects to that for which original enrolment was accepted.

16. The College reserves the right to cancel a course with four weeks notice prior to the commencement date for the course whereupon any fee paid will be refunded in full.

17. The College reserves the right to withdraw a subject up to four weeks after the published commencement date where it considers that it is not viable, whereupon an alternative subject will be offered on a pro-rata refund of the course fee given.

18. Any fee refunded to an excluded student is wholly at the discretion of the College Board.

19. A minimum of 4 weeks is needed for the processing of refunds. No interest is paid on any refund payments

Note: College bears no responsibility for the tuition fees paid to consultants/agencies without proper fee receipt from the college.

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