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.

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

China – the CSC Chinese Scholarship Council
Kazakhstan – the Bolashak International Scholarship
Saudi Arabia – the King Abdullah Scholarship Programme
Brazil – CNPq website
Mexico – Conacyt website

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 July 2026

Student	Programme	Annual Fee
EU Full-time	PhD	€5,500
	DMus	€5,500
	MPhil	€5,500
	PgDip	€5,500

EU Part-time	PhD	€3,666
	DMus	€3,666
	DBA	€5,500
	DCP	€5,500
	MPhil	€3,666
	PgDip	€2,750

Non EU Full-time	PhD	€11,000
	DMus	€11,000
	MPhil	€11,000
	PgDip	€11,000

Non EU Part-time	PhD	€7,333
	DMus	€7,333
	DBA	€11,000
	DCP	€11,000
	MPhil	€7,333
	PgDip	€5,500

Visiting Graduate Research Student Fees with effect from July 2026

Visiting Period in a Calendar Year	Fee
< 11 weeks	€0
12 – 71 weeks	€1200
>72 weeks	€2400

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

Fees & Scholarships

Fees and Scholarship Information for Postgraduate Research Students

International Scholarship Opportunities

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

Registration Fees