Priority closing date for SUSI applications approaching

SUSI, the national student grant awarding authority, is urging students who have not yet submitted their applications for student funding in academic year 2020-21 to do so now by applying online at www.susi.ie.

The priority closing date for new applications is Thursday, July 9.

Eleanor Murphy, the communications and customer services manager at SUSI, said: “I encourage all further and higher education students planning to apply for funding for the new academic year to check out susi.ie and begin the process now.

“Students who submit their application on or before July 9 will receive priority processing.

“Our aim is to have as many grant application decisions as possible with students before the start of the new academic year.

“The sooner we receive the application, the sooner the student will receive an outcome.”

Students do not need to have their Leaving Cert results, or to have accepted a course, in order to apply.

They can supply details of the course they hope to study and can update their final course choice online at a later date.

SUSI, which is in its ninth year of operations, opened for applications for academic year 2020-21 on April 23.

More than 77,000 applications have been received to date from new and returning students and more than 43,000 students have already been awarded funding.

SUSI will continue to accept applications for student funding after July 9 – however, those applications will not receive priority processing.

On average, it takes approximately five weeks to process an application.

Students who have applied for funding can track the progress of their applications online through their SUSI accounts.

In the last academic year, SUSI processed almost 96,000 applications and more than 76,000 students were awarded funding.