Maximum period of study
If your course is below degree level, the grant of permission must not lead to you being granted more than two years’ permission as a Student to study courses below degree level from the age of 18.
If the course is at degree level, the grant of permission must not lead to you being granted more than five years’ permission as a Student from the age of 18 to study courses at degree level, unless the course of study is in architecture, medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and science, music at a music college that is a member of Conservatoires UK, or law (where you have completed a course at degree level or above and are applying for a course of study which is a law conversion course validated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board in England and Wales, or a Masters in Law (MLaw) in Northern Ireland, or an accelerated graduate LLB in Scotland).
If you have previously been granted permission as a postgraduate doctor or dentist, the grant of permission must not lead to you having been granted more than 3 years’ permission as a postgraduate doctor or dentist.