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Welcome to The Courtauld 2024

Congratulations on being offered a place at The Courtauld! We received a large number of applications and competition for places was particularly fierce – that you have earned a place on one of our courses is a tremendous achievement. We hope you are looking forward to your time with us and we eagerly await your arrival in the Autumn.

This section of our website provides information which will help you in preparing for your programme, and for life as a student at The Courtauld and in London.

If you have any questions or concerns in the months leading up to enrolment, please do not hesitate to email us at:

ugadmissions@courtauld.ac.uk – Undergraduate

pgadmissions@courtauld.ac.uk – Postgraduate

If you would like to learn more about how we can support you with any adjustments in relation to a disability or specific learning differences/neurodiversity, or you would like to find out more about the support available for any other mental or physical health needs, please email our Wellbeing Team at:

wellbeing@courtauld.ac.uk

We wish you an exciting summer, and we look forward to meeting you in September!

Find out more about all the events to welcome our new and continuing undergraduate, postgraduate and research students to the 2024/25 academic year in the coming weeks.

Welcome Week 2024/25

Information for New Students: Before You Get Here

Accommodation

Our Accommodation Applications are now closed. Please find more information about alternative accommodation here.

Our Accommodation Team may still have available rooms or may be able to place your name on their waitlist. If you are interested, please contact them by email: duchy.helpdesk@courtauld.ac.uk

 

Student Visa (International Students Only)

We started issuing CAS in support of visa applications from 01 June onwards. If you have not received the email regarding how to request your CAS, please contact pgadmissions@courtauld.ac.uk immediately.

You cannot typically apply for a student visa before 16 June (3 months prior to your start date) within the UK as your visa will be refused. We can only issue your CAS once your offer is considered Unconditional.

Further details about applying for a student visa, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/student-visa

For general guidance on student immigration, please go to www.ukcisa.org.uk

Degree and Qualification Results

If your offer is conditional, we require proof of your qualification(s). Please email a copy of an original final, official transcript to ugadmissions@courtauld.ac.uk or pgadmissions@courtauld.ac.uk by 15th August.

Please retain your original transcript as we may require this during Enrolment, even if you have already supplied an electronic copy of your transcript as part of your application.

This does not apply to students who are currently taking A or AS levels.

English Exam Results

We cannot issue you a CAS in support of a visa application if you have not provided proof of passing your English Language Proficiency exam. Although you have until 15 August to supply your English Language Proficiency exam results, we would advise that you take the exam sooner so your visa application is not delayed.

UCAS Embargo Period

Please note that the UCAS Embargo periods – between 27 July and 15 August – impact correspondence related to undergraduate matters to and from The Courtauld. We may be limited in what we can confirm via email or on a call during this time.

Your Student Email

If your registered email is a school/university email which will be deactivated after completion, please let us know your personal email address for our record. Our primary means of communication is via emails-including important enrolment information.

You will receive your Courtauld email address within 48 working hours of completing your enrolment in September.

It is important that you regularly check your Courtauld student email inbox. We will be communicating important information to help you study at the Courtauld.

Your Courtauld Student ID Number

Your Courtauld student ID has been sent to you in the email where you found this link.

If you need any assistance with finding out your Courtauld ID, please email ugadmissions@courtauld.ac.uk or pgadmissions@courtauld.ac.uk

Enrolment Dates

An email outlining the full Enrolment process will be sent out in late August. Enrolment for most students will be fully online.

International Students – All students subject to immigration control (including Study Abroad and returning students) must collect their Bio-metric Residence Permit (BRP) prior to enrolment. Further information regarding this will be available at the start of September.

In order to complete enrolment, you are required to upload on your enrolment portal:

  • Your entry clearance travel vignette with a UK arrival stamp. This will be a sticker on your passport. When you arrive in the UK, the immigration officer will stamp your vignette.
  • Your Biometric Residency Permit (BRP) Card.
  • Your visa decision letter or email, showing the correct visa expiry date, if the entire duration of your visa is not shown in the letter,  your share code to confirm your immigration status and the visa duration.

If you received a Digital Immigration Status for your visa:

To verify your immigration status, upload these documents on your enrolment portal or email pgadmissions@courtauld.ac.uk:

  • Your share code: we will use this code to confirm your immigration status.
  • An email that you received from UKVI, confirming that your visa has been granted for the Courtauld.
  • A copy of your boarding pass or flight itinerary displaying your entry into the UK.

How to generate share code 

Read the guidance on generating a share code. Once generated, your share code is valid for 90 days and consists of letters and numbers.

Read more on the Digital Immigration Status webpage.

Reading Lists

Reading lists for the various programmes and options we offer have been emailed by your programme leaders. If the reading list for your programme/option has not been made available to you by early August you may wish to contact your tutor directly.

Student Status Letters

As a student you will be entitled to access many discounts and benefits; however you must be enrolled first.

As such, you will need to wait until after you are enrolled to receive any student status letters for libraries, banks or Council Tax exemption. Bank and council tax letters can be issued by Student & Academic Services.

You will able to download a student status letter by using the self-service function on your eVision portal after your enrolment is complete in September. A student status letter cannot be issued without completing enrolment first.

Semester Dates

ID Cards

You will be able to collect your ID Cards during Welcome Week, with further detail on timings available as part of the Welcome Week schedule.

The Admissions Office will request an ID photo from Undergraduate students by email. Please follow the instructions in the email and submit your ID Photo by the deadline stated in the email. If you miss the deadline, you may not able to collect your ID photo during Welcome Week and might have to wait for a couple of weeks for us to issue your card.

Postgraduate students will have already provided a Student ID photo as part of your application. If there are any issues with the photo provided, our Admissions team will contact you via email.

US Federal Loan (For US Students Only)

Instructions and updated documentation for 2024/25 academic year Federal Loan applications will be available in late summer. Applicants will be informed when the 2024/25 Cost of Attendance Spreadsheet becomes available.

Please send all necessary documents together in one email when all steps are completed. Please find details on all the required stages on our website.

Applicants will be notified early September 2024 onwards.

For more information, please visit our US Federal Loan page.

 

Wellbeing Support

If you would like to know more about our wellbeing services, please visit our Wellbeing Team page here:

The Courtauld Wellbeing Team – The Courtauld

Alternatively, If you have a specific question or would like to speak with us about any of the support available, whether related to a mental/physical health condition, disability, specific learning difference & neurodiversity, or any other health or wellbeing issue, please email:

wellbeing@courtauld.ac.uk

Finance

At the beginning of September you will be emailed a link to initiate your enrolment. You are required to pay for your tuition fees as part of enrolment tasks. You may contact our Finance Office to pay your tuition fees in advance of enrolment for visa application purposes etc, though no payment is expected until the enrolment link is sent. Information on how to pay fees can be found here.

If you are self-funding and wish to pay your fees in two instalments, you should fill out the Tuition Fee Special Arrangement Application and return it to our Finance Office. If you will be financing your studies through a student loan which you expect to receive in instalments, you will NOT need to fill out this form; you should simply present proof that you will be in receipt of a student loan at the time you enrol for your course.

 

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