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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 qualify for Home Fees, applicants must meet the relevant fee status criteria. For more information, please visit the University’s Fee Status webpage.

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:

Your Estimated Annual Commitment:


Component Cost
University Composition Fee £5,439
Total Annual Commitment £5,439
Component Cost
University Composition Fee £7,196
Total Annual Commitment £7,196

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)

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Key Information


2 + 5 years part-time

Study Mode : Research

Doctor of Philosophy
Master of Research in the first instance

Department of Engineering

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Dates and deadlines:

Michaelmas 2026

Applications open
Sept. 3, 2025
Application deadline
April 15, 2026
Course Starts
Oct. 1, 2026

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

Course Funding Deadline
Dec. 2, 2025
Gates Cambridge US round only
Oct. 15, 2025

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


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