Enrolment for new students

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

• Fee reductions and discounts
• Further funding information

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 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. Also, if under immigration control you will be asked to provide a share code.

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

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.

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:
  • Student visa holders
    • your Student visa with Sponsor Licence D7G4NYBW3 in your passport. If UKVI decided your Student visa before 31 October 2024, then you will also need to provide a copy of 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 visa was approved after 31 October 2024, you must create an online account with UKVI to access your eVisa and provide the University with a share code to confirm your status. You will also need to provide the passport visa vignette as above. Do not use the Right to Work or Right to Rent services as we cannot accept these share codes.
    • (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 visa application checklist you can download from your UKVI account)
  • Any other visa or immigration documentation
    • You will need to have create an online account with UKVI to access your eVisa, necessary for proving you have the right to study in the UK. You will be asked to prove your residency by providing us a share codewhich we will use to check with UKVI. Do not use the Right to Work or Right to Rent services as we cannot accept these share codes.

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 may 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: adviceinternational@londonmet.ac.uk.

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.

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.