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Paying with a credit or debit card

Complete your module payment quickly and easily with a single card payment.

When you register, you pay for each module individually, so you only pay for what you will study each year.

What cards can I use?

We accept credit or debit cards from American Express, Mastercard, Visa or Visa Electron.

How do I pay with a card?

You can use your card to pay online, through your StudentHome portal, or over the phone with our Student Recruitment team.

Paying for your module(s) in full before the advertised final enrolment date completes your registration.

Can I use a card to part pay?

Of course! Some of our students pay part of their module fee with a card and pay the remainder in instalments through the Open University Student Budget Accounts (OUSBA). Or, you might even be able to secure sponsorship from your employer to pay for part (or all) of your tuition costs. Find out more about mixing your payment methods.

At school, I’d gone up to A-levels, and then I made a right mess of that, so I didn’t do any more education until I got into my thirties, and I became obsessed with the idea of proving to myself that I could do a degree. I was reading something and thought, ‘I could do that!’ At the time, one of my nephews was doing his A-levels, which spurred me on, too. I paid for it via OUSBA with a monthly direct debit. I could cope with that.

Carl Jones, BA (Hons) History

Carl jokes that The Open University turned out to be an expensive dating agency, as he met his partner online while she was studying the same course. He says: “The Open University gave me my partner Becky and our wonderful OU baby Morgan.”

That’s what we call a sound investment!