Submission Pending and Training Support fees for postgraduate research students

About the project

• Submission Pending and Training Support fees for postgraduate research students: As part of your postgraduate tuition fees, you may need to pay Training Support and Submission Pending fees.

Submission Pending fees

If you are a doctoral student, have completed the minimum period of registration for your programme, and are in the final stages of preparing your thesis for submission, you may be eligible to request a transfer to ‘Submission Pending’ status.

While registered under this status, you will be eligible to pay a reduced annual tuition fee as follows:

With Submission Pending status you will continue to:

• £745 for the 2026/27 academic year
• £765 for the 2027/28 academic year
• have access to Digital, Data & Technology (DD&T) services, including your email account
• have access to Library resources
• receive supervision

Training Support fees (TSF)

If you are a doctoral student, you may be charged a Training Support fee on top of your tuition fee. You will receive details of this charge in your offer letter. When you accept your offer of a place, you will also be accepting the level of TSF you will need to pay.

Training Support fees, sometimes called 'Bench fees', provide funding to the department which will assist your research project so that they can help you complete your PhD. Any equipment bought with a TSF belongs to the University, not to you or any sponsor.

The TSF can cover a range of costs, including:

How they are used depends on your research project and you will be able to discuss this in detail with your supervisor at the University. Changes to your project that involve making use of new or unexpected University resources beyond those agreed at your interview may lead to extra costs that are in addition to the Training Support fee quoted in your offer letter.

Find further details on using core research facilities as a student .

• training
• conference attendance
• laboratory consumables
• printing
• photocopying
• books
• laptops
• other project costs

Research areas