Paying online by instalments
Heriot-Watt University offers its students to pay for their tuition and accommodation fees, by fixed instalment plans with a debit or credit card, at no additional cost.
Students who do not choose to pay by recurring payment plan must pay their tuition & accommodation fees by the due date identified on their invoices. Tuition fees will be due 14 days after the end of the student registration period, while accommodation fees are due within 30 days.
Setting up your recurring payment plan
to set up a recurring card payment plan, you must:
- Fully complete online enrolment (please wait 24 hours after completing enrolment before trying to set up a payment plan).
- Activate your central Heriot-Watt University email account.
- You do not need to have a UK bank account to make recurring card payments.
Please ensure your plan is set up before the first payment is due. Please note, if a plan is set up after the first collection date, all missed instalments to that date will be claimed immediately.
To pay for tuition and accommodation fees by instalments:
- Go to the online payment portal
- Select 'Pay Your Fees Online'
- Log in
- Select 'Recurring Card Plan'
For all Recurring Card Plans, both Tuition and Accommodation, instalments are taken on the 15th of the month.
Please ensure you have either sufficient money or credit available in your account, to meet each instalment payment in full.
Payment confirmations
Once you've set up your recurring card payment plan, you will receive an advance notice email for each invoice. This tells you the exact dates and amounts when payments will be taken. You will also be sent an email that confirms each monthly payment.
All successful payments will be shown on the credit or debit card statement you get from your card provider. If you have doubts about whether a payment has been processed, please contact your card provider.
Further information is given in the student fee policies:
Types of payments
September intake students studying for the full academic year can pay their tuition fee in four monthly payments between October and January. The monthly instalments are calculated by taking your total tuition fees less any advance payment.
January intake students can pay their Tuition Fee in two monthly payments between February and March.
Single semester students & Go Global second semester transfer students, will be required to pay their fees in full.
For more information about paying your fees online, see our online payments page.
Payment queries
If the University cannot take the payment at the first attempt, we will try again, within five days.
If this again fails, students can pay the missed instalments through the student portal, Pay Your Fees Online, 24 hours after the second failure.
There is an option to enter the amount as a one-off payment.
If you have any questions or queries surrounding RCP Payments, you can email rcp@hw.ac.uk.