Failure to pay
Keep up to date, as it's important you meet all your fee payment deadlinesWhere tuition fee payments are required outside of loan repayments, all tuition fee payment deadlines must be adhered to. If you have any personal and/or money problems, please contact Student Advice, based in our Student Centre (see map). Email studentlife@lsbu.ac.uk or call 020 7815 6454.
If you fail to pay your fee by the due dates for payment, you will:
- be recorded on the Student Record System as a debtor in Bad Financial Standing be reported to the Home Office if you are a visa-sponsored student
- have your access to facilities withdrawn
- have your coursework and exam marks withheld
- have your certificates withheld and be refused an academic or personal reference
- be refused attendance at degree ceremonies or to stand in Student Union elections
- have your details and information regarding your debt passed to debt collection agents employed by the University
- be prevented from enrolling or re-enrolling with the University until the debt is paid in cleared funds
- be excluded from the University.
If your card transaction is returned unauthorised by your bank, you will be excluded immediately.
Failure to pay your tuition fees in line with the University’s due payment dates will result in your debt being passed to a debt collection agency.
STA International are a trusted and regulated debt collection agency who work on behalf of London South Bank University to recover any outstanding debts.
Should your debt be passed to the debt collection agents, the legal and financial consequences can be significant. This may affect your ability to secure credit or a mortgage or to rent in the future.
Should your debt be passed to STA, they will notify you in writing directly.