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Student Account

This account is no longer available to new or existing customers.

If you already have a student account, all the features and benefits of the account will still apply.

  • £1,400 interest free overdraft in your 1st year.
  • Up to £1,700 interest free overdraft in your 2nd year.
  • Up to £2,000 interest free overdraft in your 3rd year.
    • You need to be 18 or over to arrange an overdraft and you will need to pay in £300 or more to activate it.
    • You will need to contact us to request an increase to your overdraft limit. Your overdraft limit will not automatically increase in your 2nd, 3rd, or subsequent years of study. Approval will depend on an assessment of account conduct.
  • With our Student Account overdraft, there is no monthly account fee and no overdraft charges. You’ll only be charged interest if you go over your overdraft limit.
  • For the first year after you finish your degree, your overdraft will be interest free and there will be no monthly account fees.

    1 year after the end of your final year of study your account will convert automatically to our Current Account. We will treat the end of your final year as the end date that was supplied as part of your application.

  • Bank online or on mobile.

    Use secure online banking or our mobile app any time of day or night.

Representative example

Assumed credit limit

£1400

With debit interest at

0% EARvariable

Based on the representative example above, if you didn't pay it back for

1 month

you would owe a total of

£1400

  • Bank online or on mobile

    Use secure online banking on our mobile app any time of day or night

Help for existing customers

Help and information about current accounts, for our existing customers.

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The Co-operative Bank reserves the right to decline any application.

Whether we can offer you credit depends on your circumstances and our lending policy. We may decline your application based on your circumstances or our lending policy. We may be able to offer a product that's different to the one advertised.

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