Free tools for international students coming to the UK
The official UK student visa rules, worked out for you in minutes.
Calculators for students and parents. How much money you must show and by when, how many hours you can work, and what living there really costs. Answer a few questions and every figure comes back with the rule behind it and the date a person last checked it.
What would you like to work out?
How much money do I need to show?
The exact amount, plus the dates the money must sit in the account and the last day you can apply.
Start →Answer from the official rulesAm I allowed to work?
How many hours a week you may work, and the jobs the visa forbids no matter how few hours you do.
Start →Estimate from your answersWhat will it cost me to live there?
A monthly budget built from your own choices, next to what the visa assumes and what you could legally earn.
Start →Estimate from your answersWhat will my accommodation cost?
The cost of a whole tenancy, and how much of it reduces the money you must prove.
Start →How it works
No account. No email needed. Nothing you type is saved.
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Answer a few questions
Your course dates, your university, how you want to live. Everything comes off your offer letter or CAS.
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See your figures
The amount, the dates, the hours. Each line shows the arithmetic behind it, so you can follow how it was reached.
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Check it yourself
Every figure links to the exact rule on GOV.UK and shows when a person last read it. You never have to take our word for it.
Why you can trust these numbers
Plenty of websites publish these figures. Very few tell you where they got them, or when they last looked.
Taken from the law
Every figure is quoted word for word from the Immigration Rules, with a link to the paragraph it came from.
Checked by a person
The official pages are re-read every day by machine, but nothing is published until someone has checked it and put their name to it.
Estimates say so
Where we estimate rather than quote, every line is labelled: official statistic, our own pricing, or something you told us.
Gaps stay visible
Where a figure is not published anywhere, we say so and leave it out rather than quietly guessing.
Still not sure?
18 plain-English guides answer the questions that come up most often — whether a parent’s bank account counts, what the 28-day rule really means, whether students pay council tax.
Read the guidesThis is not immigration advice. It is arithmetic applied to published rules, and it cannot tell you whether your application will succeed. Always check the official guidance. For advice on your own circumstances, speak to a solicitor or an adviser regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority.