How did you pay your way through University?

Took a year out after college and saved up around £10,000 then went to uni and got a temp job in the Library for some spending money.

Oh also forgot the company I worked for in my year out sponsored me through Uni by paying all my tuition fees on the previso that I came back and worked for them in the Summer holidays.
 
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My parents are very generous and help me out substantially by paying my fees and helping me out quite a bit with accomodation.

I pay for the rest mainly from a student loan but i also saved up a couple of thousand working for a year before i went to uni. I also work during the summers in order to bulk that fund back up a bit. Nearly run out but i'm in the second half of my final year so i should be fine. Fortunately i haven't had to resort to a overdraft yet which iirc makes me the only one out of my group of friends (many of which get more financial help than me, god knows how they spent it all) but if it got to that i'd rather get a partime job behind a bar or something.
 
Parents pay for me. But next year (being first year at the moment) I will be getting job so I have alcohol moneies =]
 
Student loan for course fee's and accomodation, and I work during half terms to cover the following term.
 
I went to my local University (And still do, last ever year for me now though) mostly because of the bizarre situation with student finance. Because you are judged not on yourself but on your parents income, I was entitled to nothing but the minimum loan, therefore to go away to my other preffered University would have meant I'd have needed to take out a commercial loan in addition to my student loan simply to afford living costs, or ask my parents to fund my way through Uni. I didn't want to do this.

So, I stayed at home, had a great time and had my student loan each year + part time work. I also worked full time for a year on my placement, and work during the holidays. This enables me to pay my own undergrad fees (I had no LEA assistance) and also leaves money left over to indulge my hobbies of cars and computers. I don't use my overdraft and my only debt is the Student Loan.
 
parents and a job paying roughly £380 a month

I would have struggled without help from parents, didn't qualify for any "free" grants

My advice for students before they start their 1st year is work full time the summer before, whatever you think you will need, double it
 
saved up a little bit of money before i went, worked one a day a the local footie ground and worked in the summer hols and it was enough to buy me a new pc every year :)

MW
 
Help from my folks, they paid my food bill, grant which covered halls, part time job and the smaller student loans back then. Took a year out too. Students on my course used to moan about being broke but then refused to take part time work because it was 'below them'. Never understood that.

Tuition fees now make it more expensive but you get more than I used to for a student loan (£1800 per year), so it just comes out of that. Annoying that it leaves you in debt, I think that is unfair, but universities have really improved as a result.
 
Working during gap year
Working during holidays (3rd year now, worked during the summer at end of 1st and 2nd year)
Maximum loan
Parents
Small grant
Old tuition fee system + grant to cover fees anyway
Working a small amount at uni (visit days, stuff like that, very infrequent)

Left in a reasonably comfortable position as my rent is cheap and I don't just go out and max out my overdraft by buying stupidly expensive TVs/PS3s etc.
 
I went to my local uni and lived at home. I hated it and the stress of working every day to stay there so quit half way through. The course was nothing much new to me anyway and the made us do things that wer unrelated to the course and what I wasn't interested in. I was given a loan, but that only covered the tuition fees.

It'll hurt me in the future, but I know people with wonderful degrees and they have no jobs, they won't even work in the local pub, so I can't be doing too badly now.
 
Student loan and LEA assistance, worked during every summer (no way I could've worked weekends and not killed myself). Managed to break just under even every year. I got out of university debt (excluding student loan) 3 months after my last exam.

It sickens me that people got handouts from parents and drank away/put in ISA their loan money. I needed that money to find my next meal.
 
There were still grants and no tuition fees in my day. The grant was enough to cover my rent, summer work plus a student loan was more or less enough for food, going out and other expenses. Had a small deficit of approx £300 per year (slightly more in my final year) so I left with £1000 overdraft which I soon cleared once I started working.
 
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