Enrolment for new students
Before you can start your course and get ready for everything that the first few weeks at university have to offer, you need to enrol. Follow the steps below to complete the enrolment process.
Before pre-enrolment
If you're relying on a student loan in order to pay your course fees, you'll need to begin your funding application process as soon as possible. Follow the guidance that's relevant to you below.
Undergraduate
If you're expecting to receive funding from Student Finance England/Wales/Northern Ireland (only UK students or EU students who have (or have applied for) settled status prior to 31 December 2020)...
If your tuition fees are being paid by Student Finance, you must make your application prior to pre-enrolment. Doing this quickly should mean that there is no delay to your student loan being paid.
If you haven’t yet applied for your funding, you should do so immediately as you will not be able to pre-enrol without making a student finance application. Apply for student finance.
If you're paying your tuition fees yourself (self-financing)...
If you’re paying for your fees yourself you’ll need to do this before you can enrol. Find out about the ways you can pay.
Postgraduate
Postgraduate Loan
If you plan to study a postgraduate master’s course you may be able to get a Postgraduate Loan of up to £12,471. The loan, which is not means tested, can be used towards course fees and living costs.
As the loan is paid directly into your bank account you need to provide evidence of your approved loan, otherwise you will be considered as a self-financing student.
Self-financing
If you’re paying for your fees yourself you’ll need to do this before you can enrol. Find out about the ways you can pay.
Useful links
If you are enrolling on one of the courses below you will need to apply for undergraduate funding:
- PGCE
- Professional Diploma in Architecture
- QTS courses
Research
Doctoral Loan
If you’re a UK student without a Research Council Living Allowance, you may be able to take out a non-means-tested loan of up to £29,390 to help cover the cost of a PhD.
Find out more about the Postgraduate Doctoral Loan.
Self-financing
If you’re paying for your fees yourself you’ll need to do this before you can enrol. Find out about the ways you can pay.
Get information and advice on funding whilst studying
Our Student Money and Accommodation Advice team provide advice and guidance on a range of issues around undergraduate and postgraduate funding for UK students.
Pre-enrolment
Pre-enrolment is the first step in the enrolment process
To pre-enrol, you’ll need to:
- Log in to Evision – enter the username and password given to you in your email of admission and click the "log in" button – you’ll then be able to access a number of items of key information from your Evision account
- Click on the My enrolment tab on the top of the screen
- Click on the link that says Begin pre-enrolment
You’ll be guided through a number of screens that will ask you to do the following:
1. Read and agree to the University's terms and conditions
Here you'll need to confirm that you'll abide by the University's regulations and accept that you're liable to pay your fees. You'll also be asked to confirm that you consent to the University's Data Protection Statement.
2. Confirm your personal details
In this section, you'll be asked to confirm some details about you – this includes things like your nationality, your school and any disabilities you may have.
3. Confirm your contact details
Here you'll need to add your contact details – if you're living away from home for university, you'll need to add your term-time address as well as your home address.
4. Provide your payment details
Here you'll need to confirm that your fee is correct (refer back to your offer letter to check it's the same) and tell us how you intend to pay your fees, eg Student Finance Undergraduate Loan. If you select Student Finance Undergraduate Loan, you'll also need to tell us:
- the date you applied for your funding
- your customer reference number
- your student support number
You'll find these details on any correspondence you have from Student Finance.
Pre-enrolling should take no more than 15 minutes, as long as you have all the required information to hand.
It would help if you aimed to pre-enrol as soon as possible to ensure your enrolment proceeds smoothly.
If your password or login doesn’t work, please email: welcome@londonmet.ac.uk
Virtual identity verification
Within an hour of completing pre-enrolment, you'll be sent an email from welcome@londonmet.ac.uk that will be sent by Trust ID – make sure to check your spam folder for it.
You will have two weeks to access your virtual identity verification before the link expires, but we suggest you do this as quickly as you can because you won't be able to enrol without doing it.
You will need to:
- do this on a mobile or tablet device
- have a piece of photo ID to hand
- have any visa or settlement document(s) you may need to study in the UK
- take a photo of yourself during the process
Once this has been done your virtual identity verification will be sent to us for processing, as long as this is successful you will be asked to send us a photo for your ID card.
You'll need to upload a suitable photo for your student ID card – this needs to be a jpeg, passport quality and no larger than 2.5MB.
We have produced a video and guide to help you with taking the best photo you can for your ID card.
Once we receive a suitable ID card, we can process and hopefully pass your ID check.
Preparing for enrolment
Once you have completed pre-enrolment we'll be checking, amongst other things:
- how you will be funding your course
- the photo for your ID card
- your right to study in the UK
If we have any concerns we'll contact you by email to follow up on these.
Enrolment advice for international students
What will I need to supply?
You will have to supply scanned copies of all the standard documentation we've asked you to provide as well as scanned copies of:
- proof of identity – this must be a valid passport or an immigration status document endorsed by the Home Office (other forms of identity are not accepted)
- proof of your immigration status – eg:
- your Student visa with Sponsor Licence D7G4NYBW3 in your passport and your separate biometric residence permit card, which you will collect from your designated post office in the UK within 10 working days of your arrival in the UK
- (if your Student visa application is still in progress) up-to-date evidence that you have a valid Student visa application pending such as the Home Office email receipt of application fee)
- a visa for any other immigration status – this will either be in your passport or a separate biometric residence permit card (BRP)
Please also ensure you have your original academic and English language qualifications with you in the UK – we will contact you to bring them to the University for verification. This includes:
- the original copies of your academic qualifications that formed the basis of your offer
- (if you require a Student visa) the original copy of the English language test listed on your Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS)
Unfortunately, photocopies of your academic and English language qualifications will not be accepted. The University is not allowed to enrol you if we haven’t seen original copies of your qualifications.
Things to remember
- If you’re a Student visa holder, your visa must be issued on a London Met sponsored Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS).
- You may not be able to enrol if your visa application is still in process. We may ask you to provide up-to-date evidence that you have a valid pending visa application.
- You will not be permitted to enrol if you have a Student visa sponsored by another institution or if you have a non-Student visa application pending. Please be aware that you will not be permitted to enrol if you cannot provide evidence of your UK immigration status, or any of the other mandatory enrolment documentation listed in this section.
Please feel free to speak to our international team if you have any questions about your immigration status or any other queries. Contact us at: international@londonmet.ac.uk.
Enrolment
As long as you have passed all the required checks, we will email you when you can enrol. You can check if you have anything outstanding by accessing the “What is outstanding with my enrolment?” link on your evision account.
ID card
Your student ID card will be produced once you have completed the Identity Verification check as part of the enrolment process and you will be emailed directly once it is ready for collection. If you need to access campus before it is ready you will need to collect a temporary card.
Your London Met student ID card will act as:
- your student ID – This is your official student ID and therefore will include your name, photograph and student ID number. You need to carry your ID card with you at all times while on campus.
- your access card to buildings – Some buildings require you to swipe your ID card to get into the building – you just need to touch your card on the reader on the door or turnstile.
- your library card – You’ll need to use your ID card to access the library and to borrow books and other learning materials.
- your print and photocopying card – You will need this card to print and photocopy documents on campus.
Please keep your ID card in a safe place as there is a charge to replace it if you lose or damage it. The card is used for the whole period of your course and is automatically renewed each year when you re-enrol.
Supporting you throughout the enrolment process
We are here to provide as much support as we can during the enrolment process.
General enrolment support
If you have any problems or questions during enrolment, use our enquiry form to get in touch.
Frequently asked questions about enrolment
Your password is already provided in your email of admission. If this does not work for some reason, please email welcome@londonmet.ac.uk and a member of the team will get back to you with the next steps.
Please have a look at our complete list of term dates for the intake of your course.
Your online welcome timetable, gives details of the dates, times and venues for the introductory meeting(s) that you must attend. You’ll be able to see this information approximately 48 hours after you pre-enrol.
The name of the course you are joining is set out in your email of admission. If you are unable to access your online welcome timetables, please get in touch and our Welcome team can help assist in resolving this for you.
You will be able to view your timetable for classes via your Evision account; this facility is available normally 3 working days after the completion of pre-enrolment.
Timetables for postgraduate students will be issued during the welcome week at your course introductory meetings.
If you have any questions regarding your course or mode of attendance, please get in touch as soon as possible. Home and EU students should call our Admissions Office or if you are an international student you are able to talk to the International Admissions Office.
How you pay your tuition fees depends on the type of funding you have, where you are from and whether you are studying at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
As a general rule, funding is available for the full length of your course, plus one extra year if needed. If you have attended a higher education course before for more than one year, your funding entitlement for a second course will be reduced and you will most likely have to pay the tuition fees yourself for at least your first year. Have a look at our factsheet on previous study.
An exception to this funding rule applies if you already have a first degree and are starting a part-time undergraduate degree in a specific course area. Have a look at the full list of exception courses.
In this case, you may be entitled to tuition and maintenance support. Apply via the Student Loans Company.
Unfortunately, the student funding rules will often count this as previous study and it may mean you won’t receive student funding for part or the full length of your course, even if you haven’t had funding before. Please make sure you declare all previous study to us and to Student Finance England/Wales/Northern Ireland.
Further information about previous study and the exceptions to this.
If we don’t think your funding will be confirmed we’ll ask you to pay the first instalment of your fees before you enrol. This will be refunded if your funding is subsequently confirmed.
You will be allowed to provisionally enrol for up to 8 weeks while your funding is being assessed, so you must pre-enrol as early as you can.
Our central location means that there is no student parking available (apart from disabled parking), and so parking your car is likely to be very difficult. You’re strongly advised to use public transport.
Your student ID card will be produced once you have fully completed the Identification Check as part of the enrolment process.
You will be contacted when you are able to collect your ID.
Please keep your ID card with you at all times while at the University.
You will need to have fully enrolled and obtained your student ID card in order to be eligible to apply. Please ensure you include your student ID number and full name (as detailed on your student record) on your TFL application. You should allow five working days for this to be approved by the University.
If you have any further queries in relation to receipt of your TFL Oystercard, you should contact TFL directly, visit the Transport for London website.
Yes. All fully enrolled undergraduate and postgraduate, full-time and part-time students can join the NUS. To find out more about the TOTUM card (the new name for the NUS extra card), and for discounts at a selection of retail outlets, visit the Students' Union pages for more details.
Fully enrolled full time students usually do not have to pay Council Tax. If you live alone or in a household where everyone is a student then you will not need to pay Council Tax as the property will be 'exempt'.
You can request a Council Tax Exemption Letter from your School Office and then give it to your local Council office.
Your School Office is the place to go for any query related to your studies or your time at the University and is also the gateway to the wealth of other support services offered in the University, such as Student Services, Finance, and learning support services.
Your provides a One Stop Shop for any queries you may have during your time at London Metropolitan University.
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