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Reply 1
If you can't get funding for it, then you can get a career development loan or a professional studies loan to pay for it, depending on the type of course. The majority of people pay for their masters from either funding, self-fund (either by parental contribution or from taking a few years out and working to get the money), or from a career development or professional studies loan.
Because I'd be payed £22+k/year to do the postgrad I want to.

:o:
GodspeedGehenna
Because I'd be payed £22+k/year to do the postgrad I want to.

:o:


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That's fighting talk 'round these parts :p:

Seriously OP, the CDL is probably your best bet, but that's £8k maximum and only £4k of that can be used for fees, so you would probably need to look at taking a year out to earn/tapping the parentals etc in addition.

Or just look for a cheaper Masters...
There's a good solution here - if you're self-funding or likely to be part-self-funding:

DON'T STUDY IN LONDON!!! Seriously, the living costs and fees are so much higher than other parts of the country. In almost all cases there will be an equivalent russell group university elsewhere that is based in a cheaper location but has just as good a qualification and facilities. What you can't get there, you can get on Inter Library Loans or things of that sort.

Budget, Budget, Budget!
EierVonSatan
you make me sick :p: who on earth is funding that?


The good ol' NHS.
Reply 6
There's always the "live at home" and commute in for your MA to save on accommodation costs.

Oriel Historian
What you can't get there, you can get on Inter Library Loans or things of that sort


For me anyway, it's actually going to be cheaper to train to the BL than it is to get an inter-library loan! :mad:
Get a first and go to America... Actually; don't because that's what I want to do...
Reply 8
IlexAquifolium

Seriously OP, the CDL is probably your best bet, but that's £8k maximum and only £4k of that can be used for fees, so you would probably need to look at taking a year out to earn/tapping the parentals etc in addition....


Or, you could do a me and just get the CDL by itself, then live in blind hope that at some point during your MA you'll discover a way to make really convincing fake money from your flat.
rottcodd
Or, you could do a me and just get the CDL by itself, then live in blind hope that at some point during your MA you'll discover a way to make really convincing fake money from your flat.


Awesome. When you find out, let me know.
Reply 10
IlexAquifolium
Awesome. When you find out, let me know.

Day out to London? We can take snaps of the Queen then print it on to as many old receipts as we can scrounge from bin bottoms. I'm sure that would work. I can't see how it wouldn't.
rottcodd
Day out to London? We can take snaps of the Queen then print it on to as many old receipts as we can scrounge from bin bottoms. I'm sure that would work. I can't see how it wouldn't.


No, no, no. You forgot the disguises silly! We'd have to buy moustaches first.
Reply 12
I already have one, I naturally assumed you did too :p:
Grants, scholarships, discounts from Imperial (though it is known for tough costs), part-time job - also you don't have to pay it up straight. The Government says you don't owe a penny, not until you are in a job and are earning over £15,000 pa.

So, you have nothing to worry about.
Reply 14
jermaindefoe
hey peeps, i was wondering, for those of you who are to take a post grad degree straight after undergraduate, how are you going to afford it, the post grad degree i want to do at imperial is £20k i have no idea how im going to afford it without any funding, so what are your opinions?


In my country, the average monthly salary is about 350GBP....but after graduation i took a full-time job as an engineer....i saved up money + i took a loan from a bank AND in October 2008 i will start an MSc in the UK :smile:

You can, if you really wish to learn! Just make a plan for future development.
Reply 15
im so academic
Grants, scholarships, discounts from Imperial (though it is known for tough costs), part-time job - also you don't have to pay it up straight. The Government says you don't owe a penny, not until you are in a job and are earning over £15,000 pa.

So, you have nothing to worry about.

That's for an undergraduate degree and does not apply for a postgrad one, which the OP is talking about.
History Lost in Physics
Get a first and go to America... Actually; don't because that's what I want to do...

And how/why is funding easier to obtain in America, may I ask?
rottcodd
I already have one, I naturally assumed you did too :p:


Well, I've been cultivating a beard to stroke when thinking deep thoughts, but not a moustache. :p:

Sorry for the OT-ness...

jismith1989
And how/why is funding easier to obtain in America, may I ask?


It's a bit less generous, but there's loads more of it - pretty much most doctoral students are on teaching contract scholarships over there.
jismith1989
And how/why is funding easier to obtain in America, may I ask?


If you have a first class degree in a rare (but useful) subject from a top UK department you may find that American universities superior resources allow them to be rather more generous with funding than their british counterparts (the same applies for several other countries so long as you speak their language).

I would imagine getting a place on an Ivy League universities graduate programmes may be rather difficult though!
apotoftea
For me anyway, it's actually going to be cheaper to train to the BL than it is to get an inter-library loan! :mad:


Really? Oh. Well I shall be using the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol a lot more than I expected then :biggrin: Or Bodley. Either way.