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Postgraduate Study

Funding Opportunities

All successful Home* and a limited number of International* applicants will receive full funding (fees and maintenance) covering all six or seven years of the course.

*To be classed as a home student, candidates must meet the following criteria:

  • be a UK National (meeting associated residency requirements), or
  • have settled or  pre-settled status (meeting associated residency requirements), or
  • have indefinite leave to remain or enter (meeting associated residency requirements), or
  • be an Irish National (meeting associated residency requirements, in line with the UK-Ireland Common Travel Area Agreement).

If a candidate does not meet the criteria above, they would be classed as an International student.

Some funding is also available to cover approved project-specific training, conference and secondment costs.

General Funding Opportunities


Fees and Maintenance

My fee status is:

I shall have the following financial dependants:

Your Estimated Annual Commitment:


Component Cost
University Composition Fee £5,178
Total Annual Commitment £5,178
Component Cost
University Composition Fee £6,851
Total Annual Commitment £6,851

Please note that fees shown for the PhD portion of the course are an estimate based on the current PhD fee.  Fees applicable to your year of entry to the PhD have not yet been confirmed, but are likely to be 5% higher than the estimate presented.

Note that the fees displayed are full-time costs. The actual fee will either be 60%/term for five years, or 75%/term for four years.

Guidance on calculation of your maintenance costs can be found here: Maintenance costs for part-time students | Postgraduate Study (cam.ac.uk)

Key Information


2 + 5 years part-time

Study Mode : Research


Master of Research in the first instance

Department of Engineering

Course - related enquiries

Dates and deadlines:

Michaelmas 2025

Applications open
Sept. 4, 2024
Application deadline
May 16, 2025
Course Starts
Oct. 1, 2025

Some courses can close early. See the Deadlines page for guidance on when to apply.

Course Funding Deadline
Dec. 3, 2024
Gates °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï US round only
Oct. 16, 2024

These deadlines apply to applications for courses starting in Michaelmas 2025, Lent 2026 and Easter 2026.


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