For you as a student, nothing will change for the foreseeable future. You will continue to study at and graduate from Kent as planned. In time, we hope this collaboration will create more opportunities and benefits for students, but your day-to-day experience will remain the same.
See the FAQs below for more information. If these don't answer your questions you can email FutureKent@kent.ac.uk
*Name TBC following a formal Office for Students process.
Student FAQs
Yes, students will continue to study the courses they applied for at their chosen university.
There are currently no planned changes. As individual organisations, we continually review our portfolio and curricula. Like all universities we will also always be subject to normal workforce changes as people move on or progress, but there are clear processes in place to ensure this will not affect your ability to complete your course.
No, there are no planned relocations of teaching for all current students or for those applying for the 2026/27 academic year.
Nothing changes immediately, and we have strong assurance from the DfE that this will not impact students’ visa status. There are sometimes changes to UKVI rules and we will continue to alert students on visas in the usual way if anything changes.
Students already have shared library facilities across the two universities. Following the creation of the London and South East University Group they will benefit from access to facilities across all campuses.
Students will continue to receive access to the student support services within their current chosen university. Over time, we will enhance the offering through shared resources, but this would follow after a successful completion of this process.
There will be no impact on current bursaries or scholarships. Contracts will simply move over to the new university group.
Yes, students will continue to be awarded by and graduate from their chosen university.
Graduation ceremonies will continue as they currently are at each institution, with University of Kent students graduating at Canterbury and Rochester Cathedrals and University of Greenwich students graduating at Greenwich Chapel and at Rochester Cathedral.
The students’ unions are independent organisations, so this would be for them to determine. This is a new institutional model for the students’ unions too, and they will have their own process to undertake on how best to support the students at the University of Kent and University of Greenwich.
There are no changes at this time. Student societies are independent of the universities, so this would be for them to determine.
We anticipate that this new collaboration will be an attractive offer to new students and, with the growth and opportunities it offers, enable us to increase our student body.
Future students will still apply for their chosen course and university –they will apply to, study at and graduate from their chosen university.
Students studying Masters and Doctorates will continue as they are and will be awarded their qualification from their chosen university.
No, anyone who has been awarded a qualification from the universities in the past will continue to retain that qualification from the university that they studied at.