Fees
UK applicants
The fee for year 1, 2021 entry is £5,670 for full-time students and £2,840 for part-time students.
International and EU applicants
The fee for year 1, 2021 entry is £17,500 for full-time students, if you pay your fees in full before you enrol we offer a discounted fee of £16,800.
All fees are currently correct, but may change as a result of changes in government policy on tuition fees, entitlement to fee reductions and tax or benefit rules. Please check for the latest information before you enrol.
More details about fees, paying your fees and fees for previous years please see the fees & finance pages.
How to fund your PhD?
Charity Awards (Home and Overseas)
The Alternative Guide to Grad Funding is the most popular postgraduate funding resource in the UK. It focuses on a major alternative but underutilised source of postgraduate funding: charities and trusts. UCA subscribes to this resource and you will need your applicant number and the University pin number to access the resource.
Student Loan
If you’re from the UK or the EU, you may be eligible to take out a PhD loan from the UK government. For more information about this loan see: www.gov.uk/doctoral-loan
UCA fee bursary awards (Home/EU only)
We offer a small number of PhD bursary awards to suitably qualified applicants to carry out research. These are awarded after interview and on a merit basis.There is no separate process for application. You just need to tick the funding section of the research proposal form to indicate that you wish to be considered for an award. The criteria for award is strictly on the quality of the applications received.
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