Tuition Fees - How Much Are They?

This page provides information about fees for postgraduate research degrees. For more information about fees for postgraduate taught degrees, please check our course records.

Tuition fees are grouped according to the subject area shown in the table below. 

General Principles 

1. Fees are per annum unless otherwise stated. All figures are GBP (£) unless otherwise stated. 
2. Fees are set by year of entry,
3. For students starting in 2024/25, and unless noted specifically otherwise, fees will remain the same for the duration of a course. 
4. For students starting their programme in 2025/26 (and later), fees will be subject to an annual inflationary increase and are expected to rise throughout the programme of study. The fee listed on the course database is for the first year of the course only; fees for subsequent years will be confirmed not less that 3 months before the start of the academic year to which the increase is intended to apply and will be published on the Finance webpages.
5. In deciding the annual level of increase the University will take into account inflationary pressures on the costs of delivery.
6. Tuition fees will rise annually by up to the higher of;       
   1. 6%, or,     
   2. the latest annual percentage increase in the Consumer Prices Index.
7. EU students will pay the overseas fee for the duration of their course. 

Postgraduate Research 

Standard Full-Time Fees for 2025/26 entry

Standard Part-Time Fees for 2025/26 Entry

Fees are set on a pro-rata basis of the standard full-time fee plus 10% (rounded up to the nearest 100 where appropriate). The figures in the table above are based on 0.5FTE with a further £500 reduction calculated for the part-time fee equivalent

Arts and Humanities

Social Sciences and Health

 Sciences 

Business School

Full-time Postgraduate Research

Exceptional Postgraduate Research Full-Time Fees for 2025/26 entry 

*Due to the high teaching element of these programmes, fees are levied at the taught fee band in appropriate years. 

**Students will be charged in years 2 – 4 at the PGR rates applying to students beginning standard PhD courses in the same year as the first (Master’s) year of the Integrated Studies course. 

***Year 2 fees for these programmes are set at the standard PGR fees.

****Programme fees for F4A201 (PhD in Heritage & Preservation Studies | Archaeology) will have the respective Home or Overseas apportioned over 5-years.

Part-time Postgraduate Research

Students' tuition fees are charged according to academic year of entry.

Part-Time Fees for 2025/2026 Entry

Fees are set on a pro-rata basis of the standard full-time fee plus 10% (rounded up to the nearest 100 where appropriate). The figures in the table above are based on 0.5FTE. 

Operating Principles

1. Home/Islands fees for 2025/26 are set in line with grants awarded by Research Councils, which are usually released in the April of the previous academic year.
2. Overseas students entering from 2016/17 will pay the same fee for the duration of their course, i.e. with no annual increases.
3. Overseas students who receive concessions to extend their studies will not be moved onto a different fee band as long as the extension is no longer than one year. Where the extension is greater than one year, students will be moved onto the fee band for students who started the same number of years later.