Bench fee for doctoral students

Source: https://www.ugent.be/en/research/doctoralresearch/benchfee.htm Parent: https://www.ugent.be/phd/en

Since academic year 2017-2018 PhD students are required to contribute to the costs of their research activities on top of settling the tuition fee.

This annual lump-sum contribution or 'bench fee' is used by the supervisor to pay for expenses as a result of conducting high-quality research (use of laboratory, study material, research equipment, participation to seminars, conferences,…)

As this is an official governance rule it is part of the codex where all details can be found. That document is in Dutch and for internal use only.\

UGent can make arrangements with certain PhD scholarship financers to set other benchfee amounts, in the frame of overall agreements. Such agreements are in place for example with the Higher Education Commission (HEC, Pakistan); the China Scholarship Council (CSC, China); Senecyt Ecaudor, Colfuturo Colombia, …. More information on this (internal) page.\

As a PhD student with external funding, you can contact your promotor to know more details.

Read this webpage In Dutch.

Annual benchfee amounts per faculty and doctoral degree

Contact

benchfee@ugent.be