University of Gloucestershire

The University of Gloucestershire is a modern public university teaching across campuses in Cheltenham and Gloucester, with subjects spanning business, computing, sport, health, education and the creative arts. Its Advanced Tuition Fee is the number to plan around. Gloucestershire requires students who need a Student visa to pay GBP 4,000 in advance: it secures the place, it releases the CAS without which no visa can be issued, and it counts towards the first year's tuition rather than sitting on top of it. That GBP 4,000 falls due months before term and is entirely separate from the GBP 10,539 the Home Office requires a student to hold untouched for 28 days. A family that budgets only for the maintenance figure will be short at exactly the wrong moment. Gloucestershire is rural southern England, roughly two hours from London and Birmingham by rail, with living costs below the southern English average.