Postgraduate Research Fees

Source: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/finance/studentfinance/fees/pgr/ Parent: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/finance/studentfinance/fees/

Tuition fees are payable for each year of your course at the start of the academic year, or at the start of your course, if later. For details on how to pay your fees, please see our Making Payments pages.

Please note that the standard course fee is charged per academic year - totalling up to:

• 36 months for full-time students and
• 60 months for part-time students

Postgraduate Research fees for MRes/PhD in Economics or Warwick Business School's DBAs

You may be advised of different arrangements in your offer letter depending on your funding arrangements . For more information please see:

• MRes/PhD in Economics
• Warwick Business School DBA

Visiting Postgraduate Research Students

Visiting Postgraduate Research StudentsLink opens in a new window will not incur a fee for their first year. For visits over 12 months, postgraduate research fees will be 50% of the course fee for the relevant academic year pro-rata.

*Part time fee are charged at 60% of the full-time rate and both fees due and any stipend awards will be adjusted accordingly.

**Students from the Channel Isles or the Isle of Man are charged at the Home rate from 2020-21.

***The rate for Home students included in the table above for 2026-27 have been confirmed and published by UKRI (UK Research and Innovation).

Our tuition fee rate for UK postgraduate research students (Home) is aligned to the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) fee levels.

PhD by Published Work - External Applicant

The standard charge is an amount equivalent to one year's full-time fee for the traditional PhD in the relevant academic year and department, regardless of the date of submission of the work. Please see above table for full time fees.

PhD by Published Work - Internal Applicant (members of staff and graduates of the University of Warwick)

The charge for members of staff and for graduates of the University of Warwick in 2025/26 is £1,001 (2024/25: £957) which is 20% of the home PGR rate.

For future years the charge will be calculated at 20% of the home PGR rate which is subject to Research Councils UK (RCUK) funding rate changes and therefore not yet confirmed. Fees are expected to increase and the inflation rate applied by RCUK is generally expected to be in line with RPI.

For further information relating to PhD by Published work please see hereLink opens in a new window

Postgraduate Research Overseas Fee Bandings

**** For a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), see the Postgraduate Taught Fees page

***** For MRes in Economics, see the Postgraduate Taught Fees page