Tuition fee Remission Scheme

Staff who register for a part-time postgraduate degree at Imperial may be eligible for a reduction in their tuition fee through the tuition fee remission scheme.

 

Eligibility for All

• The scheme is available to all full- and part-time staff who have a contract of employment with the College (including employees of wholly-owned subsidiaries of the College).
• The scheme is not available to staff holding an honorary contract with the College or employees of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. 
• The scheme is not available to children or partners of staff. 
• The scheme is only available for the duration of the employment with the College.
• The scheme applies to postgraduate degrees only; employees seeking to register for an undergraduate degree with the College cannot apply for fee remission.
• Staff will need to demonstrate a clear business case for the study benefiting their work and must obtain Head of Department approval to receive the fee remission.
• Staff will need to meet the normal entry requirements for admission onto the programme.

 

Further Eligibility to Qualify for Fee Remission:

 

Full-time Research Assistants (RAs) and Clinical Research Fellows (CRFs)

• Staff must have commenced their employment with the College by the start of their programme and
• Their contract must end on or after the date on which their degree programme is expected to finish at the time of the start of programme.

If staff begin a programme of study before they are in employment with the College, they will not be eligible for the tuition fee remission scheme for any part of that programme.

If staff resign from their employment at College within a year of completing a course where they have been given fee remission, they will be required to repay the fee remission in full.

If staff resign from their employment at College after one year but within two years of completing a course where they have been given fee remission, they will be required to repay 50% of the fee remission awarded.

Staff will not have to repay any fee remission if they leave the College due to their contract coming to an end after the course has been completed.

RAs and CRFs that are externally funded are not eligible for fee remission.

Qualifying programmes: doctoral-level (PhD, EngD, MD(Res)) and integrated Masters/Doctoral programmes only.

Part-time RAs and CRFs and any RAs or CRFs applying for programmes other than those listed above (including stand-alone MRes programmes) will be treated as General Members of Staff. 

 

General Members of Staff

• Staff must have commenced their employment with the College a minimum of 12 months prior to the start of their programme and
• Their contract must end on or after the date on which their degree programme is expected to finish at the time of the start of programme.

If staff begin a programme of study before they have completed one year of employment with the College, they will not be eligible for the tuition fee remission scheme for any part of that programme.

If staff resign from their employment at College within a year of completing a course where they have been given fee remission, they will be required to repay the fee remission in full.

If staff resign from their employment at College after one year but within two years of completing a course where they have been given fee remission, they will be required to repay 50% of the fee remission awarded.

Staff will not have to repay any fee remission if they leave the College due to their contract coming to an end after the course has been completed.

Staff Members that are externally funded are not eligible for fee remission.

 

Amount of fee remission

 

• Eligible full-time employees will receive a discount of two-thirds the Home/EU full fee for the relevant programme regardless of their fee classification. The remaining balance of the fee will be paid by the employee, their department or other sponsor.
• Eligible part-time employees will receive a discount of two-thirds the Home/EU full fee for the relevant programme pro rata the full-time equivalence of their contract regardless of fee classification.  The remaining balance of the fee will be paid by the employee, their department or other sponsor.
• Full-time RAs and CRFs will be eligible to pay a fee of one-third of the Home/EU full fee for the relevant research programme regardless of their fee classification. The relevant research programme will be deemed to be Full-Time following Full-Time Milestones unless advised otherwise by Research Degrees.

 

 

Find out more

 

If you are interested in the tuition fee remission scheme, please contact the Tuition Fee team in the first instance to find out whether you are eligible.

 

These arrangements apply for courses starting in the 2020–21 academic year, staff that have already qualified for fee remission will remain under the policy in force at the time they commenced their programme.

Last updated: October 2020