You can now submit your academic year 2025/26 full-time undergraduate courses on our Courses Management Service (CMS).

All open full-time courses that were in CMS for academic year 2024/25 have been rolled over to the academic year 2025/26 tab. These are now ready for you to review and save.

You can also submit your postgraduate master's courses for Scottish-domiciled students.

You should complete your course submission by 14 February 2025.

It's your responsibility to make sure that you only submit courses that you're designated for. You can find more information about this in our CMS user guide.

Please take extra care with your course information to make sure the course details are correct and align to policy and guidance.

New for academic year 2025/26

Tuition fee limits

Maximum full-time undergraduate tuition fees have increased from £9,250 to £9,535. This applies to new students and returning students if it's set out clearly in your terms and conditions. The limits are set out per category on GOV.UK. Please make sure that extra care is taken when entering tuition fees on CMS for academic year 2025/26.

Foundation year courses

Maximum full-time undergraduate tuition fees for classroom-based foundation years are capped at £5,760. This is dependent on provider category and Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) codes on the course. Please make sure that extra care is taken when entering foundation year tuition fees on CMS for academic year 2025/26. Further information on the affected HECoS codes can be found on GOV.UK. All other foundation years will continue to be capped at the maximum full-time undergraduate fee of £9,535.

Architecture courses

Changes introduced by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) mean that they no longer accredit part 1 courses, and existing course accreditation will expire on 31 December 2027. For new students from academic year 2025/26, part 1 courses will instead be identified by the relevant HECoS code. Only courses sitting within Common Aggregation Hierarchy (CAH) grouping CAH3 Code 13-01-01 will be considered to lead to qualification as an architect:

• 100121 (architectural technology)
• 100122 (architecture)
• 100583 (architectural design)

You should review your architecture course listings to ensure they're relevant and capture HECoS codes correctly. If these courses are already listed on CMS, there’s no need to create replacement courses. If you need any HECoS code changes on existing architecture courses, please contact ssin_queries@slc.co.uk.

Franchisable locations

There’s now an additional column in your locations tab to show if a campus location can be franchised. This allows you to choose which of your campus locations other HEPs can use as a franchise location. Only locations you’ve ticked will be visible by other HEPs when they’re searching for franchise locations. If you wish to untick a location, CMS will stop another provider using it as a franchise location during validation.

School Direct courses

If you offer School Direct ITT courses, please follow our updated guidance on adding ‘unsalaried’ to the course title.

SLC course code increase

New courses created on CMS will now contain up to 11 digits in their SLC course code. There's no change to already created course codes. The updated technical specs on how to deal with this change were sent in May 2024 and are on the HE Gateway.

If you have Scottish students, the course code is included in some files that SAAS sends and receives from HEPs. Therefore, all HEPs need to make sure that they're able to send and receive files containing up to 11 characters in the course code field. If you need to contact SAAS about this change, please email SAASEvents@gov.scot, with ‘SLC CMS Changes’ in the subject line.

Begin your course submission on CMS.

Once you've finished... let us know

Please email our CMS validation team confirming the date you plan to complete your course submission. This will let us track the level of course returns.

Please also send an email to the validation team to confirm you've completed your course submission.