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Fees & Scholarships

Fees and Scholarship Information for Postgraduate Research Students

If you are thinking about undertaking a research programme, you will need to consider how you will fund each of the following: a) your living costs, b) the research costs e.g. laboratory materials, costs of field work etc and c) the programme registration fees.

Each year a limited number of scholarship opportunities are available.

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Research & Innovation are delighted to announce the ARISE MPhil Scholarship Programme 2026

 

​There will be a maximum of 5 MPhil awards, 1 in each of the priority areas:  

  • Biopharma, Life Sciences and Medical Technologies; 
  • Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering;  
  • Food, Agritech, Bioeconomy and Sustainability;  
  • ICT and Financial Services;  
  • Audio-visual, Creative and Cultural. 

 

Full details of the call are available in the ARISE Call Document 2026.docx.  Applications are invited from full-time and pro-rata staff and researchers at TU Dublin and should be submitted, using the ARISE Application Form 2026.docx, to research.scholarship@tudublin.ie by 12 noon (GMT), 6th July 2026.

 

 

Foreign governments may also provide funding for their citizens, for example: 

Registration Fees

For Self Funded Projects, students are required to pay the relevant registration fee and also fund the project costs.

For Funded Projects, normally a scholarship is provided to the student and registration fees and project costs are also paid by the funder.

A Continuation Fee of €1,000 is payable by all students who submit their thesis for examination 6 months or more beyond their submission date.

Annual Graduate Research Student Fees with effect from May 2024

Student Fees
EU full-time  €5,500
EU part-time  €3,666
Non-EU full-time  €11,000
Non-EU part-time  €7,333

 

Visiting Graduate Research Student Fees with effect from May 2024

 

Visiting Period in a Calendar Year

Fee

< 11 weeks

€0

12 – 71 weeks

€1200

>72 weeks

€2400

 

 

 

For further information about fees, contact the team at phd@tudublin.ie