If you went to uni in the 90s how much grant did you get ?

[Kittencuddler]

Just curious how it compares

I got a couple of holidays paid for as I was doing Classics, so trips to sites were very important, or so I told them. I just had to write a report afterwards. Brilliant. There was also a hardship fund that most people didn't even know existed, that helped with balls etc, although I think they think it went on food. I had to pop in once a week to get the cash, and maintain academic standards but that was fine with me.

No grant, but parental income was not that high. Worked summers and got scholarship money.

In retrospect, I wonder if I should have had a grant. Especially as people seemed to be claiming if the NRP was the one earning the money. My parents split when I went to uni, so I suppose it wouldn't have occurred to me as applications would have been made in advance. NRP gave me £0 for uni.

No it wasn't. I started in 1997 and got full grant plus a loan.

I think that's because of a 97 start. My sis started then and had access to grants and loans. The later one was a 99 start with just loans so maybe 98 was like that. A phased out thing. As you'd started with grants you got then all the way through.

Either way, I think we can all agree we were fortunate.

Went in 1995 no grant but was given a loan. Can't remember the amount. Dropped out after the first year. I repaid it all.

I can’t remember exactly, but I was doing a full time post grad degree and also working 30 hours a week. My tutors didn’t approve of the working but I didn’t want to end up in debt and my parents couldn’t afford to give me any money. I ended up with good marks anyway so it didn’t matter.

Oh really, I didn't know how fortunate i was in that case!

Grant was £0.

They considered parental income, even though I was nearly 30 and had left home at 16 due to abuse and neglect.

I didn't know at the time that I could have appealed.

I went to uni as an mature undergraduate in the mid 1980s. I believe I got about $1500 a year but that was with a top up for having worked before. As an undergrad I worked in call centers, selling and various to top it up.

I funded myself through the first year of a masters by tutoring and doing research work at the uni and teaching in an FE college. Then I got a 3 year studentship from the uni (to finish my masters and begin a doctorate) which paid most of my expenses along with the tutoring. I cant recall the exact sums but I managed comfortably because I had savings. It (the studentship) was probably about £1800.

I managed to get a council flat on a tough estate so I had a 3 bedroomed maisonette to myself. Rent was about £45 a month. Happy days.

1996- 1999

I got full grant in first year which was about 1700 and paid my whole halls fee.
Second year was about 900 and third year a couple of hundred as the grants were being phased out.

I was very lucky. I also worked term time and holidays and parents gave me £200 a month in term time for my rent in years two and three.

I also got two loans but didn't tell my parents as they'd have been really upset. (debt is bad etc)

Paid all loans off when I sold my first flat three years later.

I was so, so lucky to go to university then.

I went to uni between 1989 and 1992. I didn’t get a grant, my Father earned too much. For the first year I was given £1k a term…I can’t remember if that went up in subsequent years. I got a job back home during my first summer, and remember saving around £1k over the 6/8 weeks. In the second summer I got a job in my uni city, at a law firm. Can’t remember how much I was paid for that. Also in my second year Student Loans became available; I think it was around £4 or £500 and I spent the first one on an Amstrad PC for doing assignments and essays on 😂Thinking about it, I’m not sure my Father did increase the £1k a term in years 2 and 3, as by then then Student Loans were available.

I graduated in the recession of ‘92 but did get a job on a graduate training program of a FTSE 100 company. Starting salary in ‘92 was £12,500, but by ‘94 that had increased to £16,500 (it went up every 6 months), plus a 10% outer London weighting (as I’d moved offices) and a company car. I thought I was rolling in it 😂

I went in 1997 and lived at home. I think I got about £200 a term which I used for a season ticket for travelling to and from uni. I worked at weekends.

I got a grant but can't remember amount, very little needed from parents.

I got about £900 a term and was studying away from home, in London. It was the full grant as my parents didn't earn enough to pay anything. I got a student loan on top to cover the summer holidays as my parents couldn't afford to have me back so I stayed there year round.
I tried to get work during the holidays but it was a struggle.

Got a full grant for the first 3 years 92 to 95 and the 4th yr slightly less but got a student loan, which I think was about £1000, different days

1986-91
Full grant, although I can’t recall how much it was. Nothing from my parents.
I worked in pubs in the holidays, and term time too, which was tough as the medical school timetable was pretty full on.

At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old woman, students lived far more frugally in those days (at least the ones I knew did). We bought our clothes from charity shops, we never had takeaways, and certainly never ate in restaurants. We walked home after nights out, never took a taxi, and longer journeys were done on the coach rather than the train. DS1 is a student now. He eats out with his housemates sometimes, they often order pizza, they take Ubers home, the girls get their nails done, and all their clothes are new. It’s a different world!

No grant for me (1995-98). Accommodation was £344 per term which my parents paid. They also gave me £10 a week for food plus £2 for laundry.

I worked in the holidays but also had various jobs whilst at uni including some tutoring and a four hour shift working in the local branch of a chain I worked in at home.

I went for 3 years and my grant covered my housing, I had to get a loan each year for everything else (but tuition fees were paid for). I did have to share a room for the first year in halls though and there were communal toilets and bath rooms (no showers), that was from 1996 in Wales.

Started in 1997, no grant as parents’ income was too high. I think loans were possible but my parents funded me - from memory they paid my rent (can’t remember how much halls were, but 2nd and 3rd year accommodation was £40 a week in the nicer areas of the city) and gave me £250/month on top IIRC, which covered everything easily.

88 -92. In my first year I had money left over at the end of the year (full grant of just over £2000 for the whole year). No tuition fees obviously, though I’m in Scotland so we still don’t have them for home students. No loans then either - different world! No one, or very few people, worked during term time, though I had a summer job in my dad’s office, filing mainly!

I remember I had the cheaper accommodation which was £200 a term and the most expensive was around £400 a term.

Very similar.

2002 - 2005 - I got just shy of £4k in years one and two and third year it was just over £4k.
I worked events and waitressing and bar during term time and full time during summer holidays to pay off my overdraft.
No parental contribution apart from £50 for birthdays.

Mu sister was at Uni from 1992 -1996 she didn't get much as my parents income was too much ,I think my parents gave her £800 / term and she got £200 grant?
She did work every summer and save up
I trained to be a nurse and we were affiliated to the university, we got a bursary of £360 ( I think) / month this was 1993- 1996