Postgraduate research funding
EPSRC Mobility DTP in Leadership and Excellence in Circular, Resource-efficient, Sustainable Manufacturing
One of a number of pilot programmes aimed at widening participation in Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) doctoral training, specifically those from industry and other non-academic backgrounds.
Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment (ACCE)
Our fully-funded PhD programme offers projects aligned with the grand challenges in environmental research: securing ecosystem services and environmental resources; predicting and mitigating impacts of climate change; understanding the dynamics of biodiversity; and mechanisms of evolutionary change.
Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment Towards Sustainable Chemical Use (ECORISC)
The ECORISC Centre for Doctoral Training will produce a generation of innovator scientists that can identify, understand and effectively manage the risks of chemicals through the use of state-of-the art science and out-of-the box thinking.
Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment Towards Sustainable Chemical Use (ECORISC)
NERC Panorama DTP
PANORAMA equips its postgraduate students with the skills necessary to understand the complex interactions within the Earth system, so they can contribute to the development of scientific, policy and industrial solutions for the national and global scale problems we face in coming decades.
ANID / Becas Chile
We offer a 25% tuition fee discount for Becas Chile-sponsored postgraduate students.
Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund Lånekassen
The Ministry provides grants and loans for higher education study outside of the Nordic region.
Overseas PhD Scholarships for University of the Punjab in service non-PhD teachers
This scholarship is aimed at candidates who have secured a PhD place for at a university ranked in the top 200 of the QS World University Rankings.
Overseas PhD Scholarships for University of the Punjab in service non-PhD teachers
Jansons Scholarships
Jansons scholarship will help to finance studying abroad for certain postgraduate degrees.
John Monash Scholarship
The John Monash Scholarship provides yearly funding to outstanding postgraduate taught and research students from Australia.
Roberta Sykes scholarship
The Roberta Sykes Indigenous Education Foundation provides supplementary financial assistance to Indigenous Postgraduate students who wish to undertake studies at recognised universities outside of Australia.
Gowrie bursary
This bursary is targeted at those who are serving or have served in the Australian Defence Forces and their lineal descendants, particularly those for whom the monetary value will make a real difference.
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.
COLFUTURO
We grant a 25% tuition fee discount to most COLFUTURO-sponsored postgraduate students. It is possible to combine this discount with most University of York partial scholarships.
Yorkshire Bach Choir
We are now accepting applications for our choral scholarship scheme for 2025/26. The 12-month scholarships will be open to all four voice parts.
York Minster Choral Scholarships
York Minster offers choral scholarships lasting 12 months or longer to altos, tenors and basses who are undergraduate or postgraduate students.
Previous funding opportunities
These opportunities are closed to applications. They may reopen in future years.
- BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (YBDTP)
- Chemistry PhD Studentships
- China Scholarships Council Scholarship
- EPSRC CDT in Chemical Synthesis for a Healthy Planet (CSHP)
- Krebs Memorial Scholarship
- NERC DLA in Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment (ACCE+)
- Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Grant
- The IAEA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme
- Wild Fund Studentship
- Wild Prizes and Bursaries
- EPSRC CDT in Chemical Synthesis for a Healthy Planet (CSHP)
- BBSRC White Rose DTP (WR DTP) in Mechanistic Biology: Diverse Talent Scholarships
- Beca Carlos Quijano
- Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Foreign Study Award
- EPSRC CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero (PINZ)
- IODE War Memorial Scholarships
- Marshall Scholarship
- NERC Panorama Doctoral Training Partnership
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Doctoral Fellowships
- Rem@ke PhD Studentship
- Saïd Foundation Scholarship
- Snowdon Masters Scholarship
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowships
- Tan Kah Kee Scholarship
- York Graduate Research School PhD Scholarship