Almost all the 22,000 other students are still grappling with how to pay back tens of thousands of pounds.
According to the NUS, many students have been given a deadline by their university of mid-April to decide whether to stay on their course.
Some universities are trying to add teaching during the week or transfer students to similar courses with weekday modules, so that students can continue to be eligible for loans in future.
This does not change the expectation that loans already taken out will have to be repaid by students, after the decision to clarify that the courses were not eligible.
“These students need reassurance that they don’t need to suddenly take out major loans or find the funds from anywhere in order to pay back these funds immediately,” said Campbell.
A statement issued by Universities UK on behalf of the institutions caught up in the row said they were “extremely concerned” that thousands of maintenance loan payments to students had been “abruptly blocked”.
They said they were now urgently seeking clarification from the government and many were taking legal advice, adding that the main focus was supporting students.
