Postgraduate research funding for international (including EU) students

About the project

We offer scholarships, bursaries and other funding to help you with tuition fees and living expenses.

Funding opportunities open and close all the time, so please check this page throughout the year.

Doctoral Training at York

Government schemes, like Doctoral Focal Awards (DFAs) and Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLAs), are the main sources of financial support for postgraduate researchers.

In addition to covering tuition fees in full, membership of a funded DFA or DLA usually includes a UKRI stipend, funding for research costs (such as fieldwork or conferences), and access to networking, cohort activities, and specialist training. These programmes offer a strong research community and help you build skills and experience valued both in academia and beyond.

• Discover Doctoral Training at York

Funding for students with disabilities

If you have a mental health problem, long-term illness or any other disability, you may be eligible for additional financial support.

• Funding for students with disabilities

White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership Studentships

The White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) is a partnership of seven Universities including York. Each year, WRDTP offers a range of social sciences PhD studentships, alongside comprehensive training, to develop the next generation of social science leaders for a diverse range of careers.

White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership Studentships

Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program

The Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program supports research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of health, natural sciences and engineering and social sciences and humanities, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research.

Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program

John Monash Scholarship

The John Monash Scholarship provides yearly funding to outstanding postgraduate taught and research students from Australia.

John Monash Scholarship

Tan Kah Kee Scholarship

The Tan Kah Kee Scholarship offers postgraduate scholarships for Singapore citizens and permanent residents pursuing full-time PhD or Masters degrees.

Tan Kah Kee Scholarship

Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund Lånekassen

The Ministry provides grants and loans for higher education study outside of the Nordic region.

Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund Lånekassen

Commonwealth Scholarship

The University of York is a host university for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. Various opportunities are available throughout the year. The majority of awards are funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Commonwealth Scholarship

Joan Samuels Scholarship

Two awards, to be paid as a living cost stipend, for two postgraduate taught students or postgraduate researchers with a disability each academic year.

Joan Samuels Scholarship

Wolfson Humanities Scholarship

With generous funding from the Wolfson Foundation, the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships fund doctoral research in three areas: History, Literature and Languages.

Wolfson Humanities Scholarship

COLFUTURO Scholarship Loan programme

We grant a 25% tuition fee discount to most COLFUTURO-sponsored postgraduate students. You can combine this with most University of York partial scholarships.

COLFUTURO Scholarship Loan programme

Departmental opportunities

Many of our departments and centres offer additional opportunities and specialised guidance on funding your studies.

• Centre for Applied Human Rights
• Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
• Centre for Health Economics
• Centre for Medieval Studies
• Centre for Modern Studies
• Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
• Department of Archaeology
• Department of Biology
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Economics and Related Studies
• Department of Education
• Department of English and Related Literature
• Department of Environment and Geography
• Department of Health Sciences
• Department of History
• Department of History of Art
• Department of Language and Linguistic Science
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Philosophy
• Department of Politics and International Relations
• Department of Psychology
• Department of Sociology
• School of Arts and Creative Technologies
• School for Business and Society
• School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
• York Law School

Other schemes and resources

External opportunities are not vetted or endorsed by the University.

• Commonwealth Scholarships
• Open Society Foundations
• USA Direct Loans for postgraduates

Previous opportunities

Many funding opportunities are renewed annually. Some of those listed below may reopen for applications later in the year.

• ANID / Becas Chile
• Beca Carlos Quijano
• Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Foreign Study Award
• China Scholarships Council Scholarship
• Gowrie bursary
• IODE War Memorial Scholarships
• Jansons Scholarships
• Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life PhD scholarship
• Marshall Scholarship
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Doctoral Fellowships
• Overseas PhD Scholarships for University of the Punjab in service non-PhD teachers
• Roberta Sykes scholarship
• Santander | British Council Online English Course 2026
• Snowdon Masters Scholarship
• The IAEA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme

Contact us

International team

• international @york.ac.uk
• +44 (0)1904 324000

Related links

• Country-specific funding
• Tuition fee rates
• International students
• Check your fee status

Research areas