Student finance

Placements

Undergraduate students can be on placement either:

• For a whole year, known as a Thick Sandwich; or
• The placement can be split over two or more years, know as a thin sandwich

Thick sandwich:

• For Home and EU students the tuition fee is approximately half the fee of that for a student studying at the University for a year (see the student finance office website for details (www.bath.ac.uk/finance/student)
• For students on a full Erasmus year (Home and EU only) there is no tuition fee due
• If students (Home & EU only) are on a thick sandwich, half Erasmus half other, then the fee is approximately half the fee of that for a student studying at the University for a year
• For Overseas students on a thick sandwich course there is a reduced fee payable for their placement year (see the student finance office website for details www.bath.ac.uk/finance/student)

Thin Sandwich - For students splitting their placement year over two academic years:

• For the first year a student spends partly on placement and partly at the university full tuition fees are payable (Home and EU)
• For the second year the level of tuition fee charged depends on the aggregate of the length of the two placements;
  - if the aggregate of the two placements is greater than thirty weeks (excluding vacations) then the fee is approximately half the full time fee
  - If the aggregate of the two placements is thirty weeks or less (excluding vacations) then the full fee is payable for both years (Home and EU)
• For Overseas students on a thin sandwich course the fees payable, in both years are 75% of the full overseas rate