Student services
We offer a range of services and information to help you while you're at Birkbeck. If you want to talk to someone, or get face-to-face advice, please contact our My Birkbeck helpdesk.
Application, enrolment and registration
- Enrolling on Certificates of Higher Education or short courses
- Applying for our undergraduate, postgraduate and MPhil/PhD courses
- International students - how to apply
- Apply online
- Application deadlines and interviews
- What happens once you apply?
- The offer of admission
- New student registration
- Enrolling on an undergraduate, postgraduate or MPhil/PhD degree
- Contact details
Fees and payment
- Fees information
- Fees for Certificate of Higher Education modules
- International fees
- Concessionary fees (CertHE)
- Reduced fees for academic English courses
- Payment information
- How to pay online
- Instalment plan for Certificates of Higher Education
- Instalment plan for degree students
- Paying by credit or debit card
- Paying by post
- BACS payments
- Paying in cash
- Sponsored students
- Refunds
- Eligibility criteria for part-time overseas (non-EU/EEC/Swiss) students
- Additional expenses
- Residence requirementsfor 'Home' students
- Fees office contact details
Orientation and induction events
- Orientation and induction events
- International students' orientation
- Orientation and study skills events for new students studying in Stratford
- Online orientation: advice and information for new students
- Student Guide
for all new students - Get Ahead: Stay Ahead - information and interactive tutorials to help you get the best possible start to your course and support during your studies.
Student support
- Academic support
- Accommodation services
- Birkbeck Graduate Research School
- BLE / Blackboard
- Career services
- Computing and IT services
- Disability and dyslexia support
- English language modules
- Financial support
- Getting started at Birkbeck
- Health services
- International students - who to contact
- Learning support and skills training
- Library services
- Lockers
- My Birkbeck helpdesk
- Nursery
- Students' union
- Students' union advice centre
- Studying in Stratford
- Volunteering support
- Rules and regulations
- Forms and cover sheets
About you
- Your student card
- Your student records
- Proof of student status
- Studying in Stratford
- Transport for London discount
- Your username and password
- Your print account
- Your computer account
- Your email
- Student feedback
Exams and assessment (certificate students)
- Exemption
- Submitting coursework: general requirements
- Submitting your long essay or project: general requirements
- Learning support for coursework and essays
- Mitigating circumstances
- Exams procedures and information
- Plagiarism and other assessment offences
- Your results
- What to do if you don't succeed: reassessment
- Contact details
Exams and assessment (degree students)
- Coursework: essays, fieldwork projects, presentations
- Exams
- MPhil / PhD dissertations
- Plagiarism and other assessment offences
- Assessment re-entry fees for non-enrolled students
- Award criteria
- Learning support for exams and assessment
- Registry contact details
- Intercollegiate module procedures
Changing your course
- Taking a break from your studies
- Withdrawing from your course
- Administration fees for taking a break or withdrawing from your course
- Contact details

