Tuition fees
2024/25
- Research/Doctoral Fees for Home Students 2024/25
- Research/Doctoral Fees for International Students 2024/25
2023/24
- Research/Doctoral Fees for Home Students 2023/24
- Research/Doctoral Fees for International Students 2023/24
2022/23
- Research/Doctoral Fees for Home Students 2022/23
- Research/Doctoral Fees for International Students 2022/23
2021/22
- Research/Doctoral Fees for Home/EU Students 2021/22
- Research/Doctoral Fees for International Students 2021/22
2020/21
- Research/Doctoral Fees for Home/EU Students 2020/21
- Research/Doctoral Fees for International Students 2020/21
You can now apply for a loan for PhD Study, please visit https://www.gov.uk/doctoral-loan/what-you-get for further information.
Research Student Scholarships
The University offers a range of funding opportunities for research students, which include dedicated funding streams and access to funding sources available to other students.
Roehampton PhD scholarships
AHRC TECHNE Studentships
The University of Roehampton is pleased to be a member of technē, a consortium of nine institutions in London and the South-East that form an AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). The technē consortium will fund 57 studentships per year over five years (2019-24), for outstanding Arts and Humanities postgraduate researchers across the partner institutions.
technē is comprised of nine academic partner institutions: Royal Holloway University of London (co-ordinator), University of Roehampton, Brighton University, Kingston University, University of Surrey, University of the Arts London, University of Westminster, Brunel University and Loughborough University, London; and fifteen cultural partner organisations. Please visit technē to find out more about the aims and opportunities of the consortium.
Applications for 2025/26 are now open
Find out more about AHRC TECHNE Studentships
ESRC SeNSS Studentships
The University of Roehampton is pleased to be part of the South and East Network for Social Sciences for (SENSS), a consortium of 8 universities working as a Doctoral Training Partnership to offer Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) studentships. Roehampton and SENSS welcomes applications for doctoral funding which speak to SENSS core research themes.
Applications for 2025/26 are now open.
Find out more about ESRC SeNSS Studentships
Alumni Scholarship
All UK, EU and international alumni holding a full Roehampton undergraduate degree or postgraduate qualification and those who studied here on an exchange/study abroad programme who wish to return to the University of Roehampton to take a higher programme of study. This applies a 20% discount to your tuition fees. You do not need to apply for this scholarship; your eligibility will be assessed automatically.
International PhD Students
International students are not excluded from the University's scholarship awards, although you may be required to pay the difference between the 'home/EU' and 'overseas' student fee rates. Visit the International Students website for more information on financing your studies in the UK.
The Connected Waters Leverhulme Doctoral Programme: The evolving interactions between human agency and freshwater ecosystems
This Leverhulme doctoral programme will recruit scholars in three cohort over three successive years. In total the award will fund up to 18 full time PhD Scholarships, including three scholarships for international applicants. 12 home (UK) PhD scholarships, and 3 Master's plus PhD scholarships. Of these, 6 home, 2 Master's plus PhD and 1 international scholarships will be based at the University of Roehampton.
Each PhD scholarship award will include fees and stipend costs for scholars for up to 4 years paid at UKRI's standard domestic rate, with an additional grant of £10,000 to each student for research expenses.
For Master's plus PhD scholarships there is funding (fees and stipend) for an additional 1 year Master's programme before the PhD programme commences.