Loans

[maddle90]

Hi guys,
Anyone know what loans are available to UK students doing undergraduate medicine in ireland, for living costs?
Thanks guys

[MentalNote]

Hi Maddle,

I'd say you'd need to contact the banks individually to find out it they have any constraints for UK students studying in Ireland.

The banks offering loans are Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and Allied Irish Bank (AIB). You should probably check out the websites of the Uni's offering GEP for details of which branch to contact, because I think if you contact head office or a random branch you may just get the brush off from someone who doesn't know what they are talking about.

Good luck.

[squarah]

This is so true!! I was months trying to organise a loan with my local AIB and in the end found out they were going to charge interest at a rate ot 8.9% !! - they hadn't a clue about the grad med loan.
So i talked to the lovely people in AIB in UL (now moved to the Castletroy branch) and got a rate of under 3% - and it was all sorted in a couple of weeks. Also the woman in there told me no one doing grad med who applied for a loan had ever been refused (up to €100,000 over 4 years - no payments til after graduation).
That said, I dont know if its different with UK students or with normal undergrad med.
Good luck