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Sources & method
Every figure is a real GOV.UK / Student Loans Company statistic for 2026/27, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Nothing is modelled or interpolated.
Where does GeraLearn get its UK student finance figures?
Every figure on these pages is a real published GOV.UK / Student Loans Company statistic for 2026/27: the £9,790 tuition cap, the maintenance loan amounts, and the Plan 2 / Plan 5 repayment thresholds and 9% rate. All are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; nothing is modelled, estimated, or interpolated. Fetched 2026-06-25.
This cluster is built from a single verified dataset of real GOV.UK and Student Loans Company figures for 2026/27. The tuition cap, maintenance loan amounts, and repayment thresholds are taken verbatim from the published sources below. The repayment estimator applies the real 9% rate and your plan’s real threshold — it performs arithmetic on published figures and invents no new data.
Primary sources
- Changes to tuition fees: 2026 to 2027 and 2027 to 2028 academic years
Maximum full-time tuition fee cap — £9,790 (2026/27).
- Support with living and other costs: 2026 to 2027 academic year
Maximum maintenance loan — £9,118 at home, £10,830 away outside London, £14,135 away in London.
- Repaying your student loan: How much you repay
Repayment thresholds — £29,385 (Plan 2), £25,000 (Plan 5) — and the 9% rate above them.
- Repaying your student loan: When the loan is written off or cancelled
Write-off periods — 30 years (Plan 2), 40 years (Plan 5).
Licence & attribution
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scope: England, full-time undergraduate. Figures are the maximum/headline amounts; the actual maintenance loan is means-tested on household income and the actual tuition fee depends on the provider’s TEF / access and participation plan status. Fetched and parsed 2026-06-25.
Sources & method — FAQ
- Is this real data or an estimate?
- It is real data. Tuition, maintenance and repayment figures are taken directly from published GOV.UK / Student Loans Company sources for 2026/27 and are not modelled or interpolated. The repayment estimator applies the real published threshold and rate — it does not invent new figures.
- Can I reuse these figures?
- The underlying figures are GOV.UK statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which permits reuse with attribution. Please cite GOV.UK / the Student Loans Company as the source. GeraLearn presents and links them; cite geralearn.com if you reference this page.
- How often are these figures updated?
- Tuition, maintenance and repayment thresholds are set annually for each academic / tax year, so GeraLearn re-dates this cluster annually. The figures here apply to 2026/27 academic year (repayment thresholds from April 2026).
Back to the cluster
- UK student finance hub — overview + repayment estimator
- Repayment plans — Plan 2 vs Plan 5
Source: GOV.UK / Student Loans Company. Figures for 2026/27 academic year (repayment thresholds from April 2026). Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Last refreshed 2026-06-25. No figure is modelled or interpolated.