Funding Opportunities

Standard fees apply to the PhD programme, this programme is in the Fee Band C for international students.

Find out more about fees here.

Postgraduate studentships are available from a variety of government, charitable and industrial sources, and close collaborations exist with industry and research institutes both in the UK and internationally. 

Funding sources for our current PhD students are:

• research councils (BBSRC and ESRC), 
• Age UK, 
• University elite scholarship, 
• Brazilian studentship, 
• Government funding.

Information about current postgraduate funding opportunities at the University of Birmingham can be found on the Graduate School Intranet site and on the College of Life and Environmental Sciences webpages.

Science without Borders

The Science without Borders programme offers funding for Brazilian postgraduates to study in the UK.

Under the scheme students can study for a PhD in science, technology, engineering or mathematics subjects at a UK university for 3-4 years. 

The scholarships cover:

• Full tuition fees
• Bench fees (the maximum amount available for tuition and bench fees combined is £20k per year)
• A generous stipend paid directly to the student 

For information on applying visit the Brazilian government’s website.

Brazilian funding agencies no longer provide pre-sessional English courses for PhD students. However students can access a free online English course.