Fees

• University fee for 2012/13 for graduate students from the UK, EU, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland (home/EU rate) will be about £3,900 pa. 
• The College fee will be about £2300 pa. 
• Living expenses are estimated at approximately £13,000 pa.
• Some funding may be required to cover additional expenses such as travel and research costs.

Departmental Prize studentships

The department awards up to 8 highly-prestigious four-year Prize PhD studentships annually funded by the MRC, EP Abraham Research Fund, the Clarendon Fund, and Oxford Colleges. These are advertised from October each year here and in Nature and FindAPhD.com, with a closing date in early January and interviews in late January. Applications are open to students from ALL countries.

International (overseas) students

The University fee for international students that are not from the EU, Switzerland, Norway or Iceland will be about £27,550 pa for 2012/13.  International applicants are eligible to apply for Departmental Studentships which will cover the full fees.

Visa and immigration information for international students can be found here.

Wellcome Trust 4 year PhD Programmes

These are open to all students. Typically the first year involves a rotation through 2-3 laboratories after which students choose a supervisor for the next 3 years. Supervisors from this Department participate in the following programmes:

·         Infection, Immunity and Translational Medicine

·         Chromosome and Developmental Biology: the Cell in Heredity and Development

·         Structural Biology: From Molecules to Cells

Wellcome Trust Training Fellowships for Clinicians in Basic Sciences

Suitable for clinicians who want to undertake research in this Department.

The Oxford/NIH Graduate Partnership Programme

This provides opportunities for the most promising postgraduate students from the United States to undertake collaborative four-year PhD training based in both Oxford and the intramural campus of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda (Maryland, USA).

Wellcome Trust and National Institutes of Health four year PhD studentships

This scheme provides opportunities for the most promising postgraduate students from the UK or EEA to undertake four-year PhD training based in both any UK academic institution (including Oxford) and the intramural campus of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda (Maryland, USA).

Croucher Scholarships

These are for permanent Hong Kong residents.

Further information about funding