Transferring or Leaving Your Course

• Do you feel that you have not chosen the right course?
• Are difficulties in your personal life affecting your work?
• Are you struggling with a particular module and can't manage your workload?
• Are you feeling lonely and homesick and feel that Sunderland is not for you?

Here is some advice that you may find useful if you are thinking of transferring course or withdrawing from the University of Sunderland 

How to organise withdrawal

• Other options available to you

Making the decision.....

It is always a big decision to start studying at university and you will have made many arrangements to enable you to study, so when you decide that this university is not for you need to think carefully so that you can consider the options available to you.

There is lots of help and advice available from Student Services within the university and from the advisors in the Students' Union and it may help you to ask for help, as your decision to transfer or withdraw may affect your future. Here we look at different aspects of your situation;

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• The Problem
• Your Academic Options
• Protecting Your Support Rights
• Immediate Financial Implications

Need academic advice?

The Academic Affairs Department offers students advice on academic problems.

• If we can't help you we'll try to find someone who can.
• All enquiries are dealt with in the strictest confidence.
• Drop in and see us whenever you like, we are located on the Ground Floor Edinburgh Building on the City Campus.
  Open - Monday to Friday 9am-4pm
  Closed - Weekends and Bank Holidays

Alternatively you can contact us by phone on:

0044 (0)191 5152743 (Diane Rooney)

0044 (0) 191 5152768 (Joanne Cocklin)
0044 (0)191 515 3030 (Students' Union Reception)

We will be happy to phone you back so you don't have to worry about the cost of the call.

Email:
diane rooney,Academic Advisor
joanne.cocklin, Academic Advisor