An international applicant can be eligible to compete for a studentship without having every tuition cost covered. Identify the difference between the award’s fee contribution and the university’s overseas tuition charge. Ask whether that difference is waived, paid by another award or left to you. Eligibility, admission and affordability are separate questions.
Choose among six defined cancer-biology projects spanning chromatin, ageing and immunity, pancreatic cancer, cell engineering, kidney-cancer evolution and transcriptional regulation. Exact project requirements differ.
An interdisciplinary four-year studentship joining two Loke Centre research groups to investigate placental biology, early development or maternal–fetal interactions.
Business and management social-science doctoral proposals considered through the SGSSS open competition.
Compare several Computing Science PhD funding schemes for October 2027 entry. Graduate School awards include fees and stipend, while other schemes offer Home-rate fees, partial international discounts or part-time teaching remuneration. These are different packages; a common award amount is not guaranteed.
ESRC doctoral training across multiple social-science pathways, with a three-month Research in Practice placement.
Competitive institutional AHRC funding for original arts and humanities projects, including interdisciplinary and collaborative research.
SGSAH-linked arts and humanities studentships with cohort training, placements and knowledge exchange.
Challenge-led social-science and health doctoral competition with internal interview and nomination before the final DTP submission.
Arts and humanities doctoral awards combining research, a career-enhancing placement and possible additional skills training.
Broad funded-project competition across Ulster faculties, with applicants selecting a project through the PhD Finder.
Develop semantic-aware caching and delivery methods for immersive media with NexCache and Essex networking laboratories.
Open-topic ESRC route spanning medieval to modern economic and social history, including migration, gender, business, environment, war, memory and digital or oral history.
Builds coupled hydrodynamic, structural and turbine-load models for flexible floating tidal-energy platforms.
Studies how environmental exposures at mucosal barriers alter immunity and drive chronic inflammatory disease using computational and experimental methods.
Develops and analyses lattice hard problems, cryptanalysis and lattice-based post-quantum or privacy-preserving primitives.
Combines multiscale computation and experiments to predict elastomer degradation under extreme thermomechanical loading, with Michelin.
Cross-disciplinary full scholarship for applicants from the Americas proposing supervisor-supported doctoral research at Bath.
Cohort doctoral training combining AI with design, society, law and governance across public-interest challenges.
Combines bioleaching, metabolic engineering and life-cycle assessment to recover rare-earth elements from secondary resources.
Create a planning table with overseas tuition, award fee contribution and confirmed waiver. Calculate the remaining difference only from compatible figures for the same academic year and study mode. Then add maintenance and excluded costs. If an amount is not published, mark it as unknown and request it from the provider instead of assuming the gap is zero.
A fee-gap waiver can have conditions that differ from the main studentship, including start dates or applicant groups. Ask whether it applies throughout the funded period and whether it is automatic or competitive. Southampton’s project examples show that a broad funding headline can leave important details unresolved. Confirm what happens if your start changes or the project continues beyond the award duration.
UKRI contributes up to Home fee rates. Its guidance says an international student may need to contribute towards fees and the provider must explain the amount. A university may offer additional support, but that must be confirmed in the project or award terms rather than inferred from UKRI participation.
No. Acceptance of an overseas qualification addresses academic equivalence. Funding can have separate restrictions based on residency, nationality or fee status. A project’s entry requirements may welcome equivalent qualifications while its award is restricted. Check each condition separately and ask how your circumstances will be assessed.
Investigate living expenses, travel, visa and immigration health surcharge costs, as well as any project-specific costs. UKRI explicitly excludes student visa and IHS payments from its funding. Other schemes may provide different support, so build the budget from the terms of your actual offer.
Our research guide explains the decisions and links to official university and government guidance. Applications and funding decisions are handled by the offering institution.
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