Student, Graduate, Post-graduate or normal bank account?

peet23

Hello,

I'm new to this forum so I hope not to violate any of your rules.

Here are the topics of my current situation:

- I'm from Portugal and I moved a month ago to the UK to start a Masters Course. It is a full time course that will last for one year. It is in Cranfield University.

- I have a bachelor that I achieved in Portugal.

- I'm not interested in overdrafts.

- I will have at least a minimum deposit of £500 per month.

- I searched all over the internet but when I search for student accounts they all refer to overdrafts and their benefits and so on.

- I also searched about normal current accounts, like the Santander and in their criteria they say I must not be in a full time course.

- I have about £2000 to open my account.

What do you think it better suits for me? I'm tired of searching on internet but I'm not quite sure about the difference of graduate, post graduate, master, etc, because it's a bit different from Portugal.


I hope you can help me!

Thank you,
Kind regards to everyone.

Florasaurus

Hi Peet,

If you're doing a Masters then you can get a student bank account. All you have to do is find an account (I would go with a bank with a branch near to where you're living), and then go into the branch with evidence of your course, when it starts and when it ends, and ask to open a bank account.

If you're opening an account with a new bank you'll probably have to take ID as well but if you ring them up, they'll tell you what you need to bring

The main comparison for student accounts is the overdraft, so you don't need to do lots of comparing online

Hope this helps!!