2016 Loan Scheme - Available for conversion (masters) courses?

For the 2016 Postgrad Loans Scheme coming in this year, can students apply for this for conversion courses? The one I'm thinking of is an MSc, which technically makes it a "Masters"...

Hi

ThePostgraduate Loan is only for full master’s courses. Unfortunately you won’t beable to get a Postgraduate Loan for a conversion course. If you have questions about whether or not a specific course is eligible the university will be able to help you.

Ray

Hi Ray,

Thanks for giving your input.

I have contacted the individual universities that all offer a Psychology conversion MSc, and they all have said that as the conversion course is an MSc, that funding will be available. The final qualification the student will receive after completing the conversion is at Masters level. But this seems to conflict with your statement?

Are you saying that these universities are in fact erroneous in their comments?

Hi

The Postgraduate Loan is only for full, stand alone Master's courses, this means that if you're topping up a previous qualification to an MSc you won't be able to get a Postgraduate Loan for the course.

If the conversion course was a full Master's course in it's own right, then you would be eligible for a Postgraduate Loan.

Laura