You could apply

for a student overdraft

up to £2,000

When you apply for a Student Overdraft, we’ll give you up to a £500, interest-free overdraft in your first term (subject to approval). After that, you can apply to increase your limit up to £2,000 interest-free (subject to approval).

This means that you don’t need to pay any interest or fees as long as you stay within your arranged overdraft limit.

What you should know

Our Student Overdraft is a form of debt and is repayable on demand. Always make sure you have enough money in your current account, or a suitable Student Overdraft limit in place before any payments are due to come out of your account.

You can apply to increase your Student Overdraft up to £2,000 (subject to approval) after the first term of your first year of study. 

Increase my overdraft

When you graduate we’ll change your Student account to a Graduate account. This will happen in your graduation year and we’ll give you 60 days notice before we do this.

When your account changes to a Graduate account, the amount of your arranged overdraft that's interest-free reduces each year. This is to help encourage you to pay back any money you may have borrowed whilst studying. 

In the first year after you graduate you can get up to a £2,000 interest-free arranged overdraft.

In the second year of your Graduate account, you can still have an overdraft of £2,000, but only the first £1,000 will be interest-free.

In the third year after you graduate you will automatically move onto a Select account and your arranged overdraft will no longer be interest-free.

Find out more about Graduate Overdraft

Our Guide to Overdrafts is a great place to start and contains lots of helpful information including:

• what is an overdraft
• how does an overdraft work
• tips to stay in control of your spending, and much more

Pop on over if you would like a bit more information before making a decision. 

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