Non-means Tested Loan Scheme /
Non-means Tested Loan Scheme for Post-secondary Students
Summary of Statistics

Academic Year 2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009
(as at 30.11.2008)
No. of applications
- received
- with results issued
58 512@
58 512
55 630+
55 630
43 931*
35 769#
No. of applicants
- with loan offered
- with loan paid
58 350
24 283
55 454
23 056
35 679#
11 889
Average amount of loan paid^ $37,347 $41,278 $28,194
Total amount of loan paid^ $906.9m $951.7m $335.2m

^ Approved loan will be paid in more than one instalment. The amount of loan paid in 2008/09 shown in the table above does not reflect the full amount of loan paid in the year until the 2008/09 application cycle ends.

@ Including 32 058 auto-created cases [because students who have applied for TSFS will be informed of their TSFS and NLS entitlement simultaneously in their TSFS notification of result with effect from 2006/07 academic year (applicable to full-time tertiary students who are covered under TSFS only)].

+ Including 29 222 auto-created cases.

* Including 21 501 auto-created cases.

# Including 18 791 auto-created cases with results issued.