We'll assess your fee status when you apply to Essex and if you are successful in gaining an offer, your fee status will be confirmed in your offer letter. Visit our fee status page for more information.
We offer a wide range of scholarships, studentships and bursaries to make funding your studies easier, including our Postgraduate Research EU Scholarship worth up to £8000. If you're an Essex graduate or studied abroad here and your PhD is your first postgraduate course with us, you could also be eligible for our alumni loyalty discount.
If you are studying part-time at twice the standard duration (i.e. 72 months for a PhD) then you will pay half of the relevant fee each year.
The tables below show full-time fees, for one year of study, for students in 2024-2025.
Each year, UKRI usually increases its fee and stipend levels in line with inflation, based on the Treasury GDP deflator. Minimum fees recommended by UKRI are adopted as the University of Essex Home-level tuition fee for postgraduate researchers on most doctoral programmes. The UKRI minimum stipend level is often used as a guide for other funders.
Department/Centre | Home fee | International fee |
Life Sciences Psychology Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Science | £4,786 | £21,500 |
Art History Computational Finance and Economic Agents Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Economics Essex Business School Government Health & Social Care History Human Rights ISER Languages and Linguistics Law Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science Philosophy Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies Sociology | £4,786 | £18,750 |
Department | Home fee | International fee |
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies |
£5,000 | £9,375 |
School of Health and Social Care: Occupational Therapy | £2,393 | £21,500 |
School of Health and Social Care: Clinical Psychology Fees for UK funded places are paid by Health Education East of England. International fee includes £5,000 bench fees. |
£19,000 | £24,000 |
School of Health and Social Care: Speech and Language Therapy (this course is only available to applicants from the UK or EU) | £2,393 | N/A |
School of Health and Social Care: all other Prof Doctorates | £2,393 | £18,750 |
School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences | £2,393 | £10,750 |
The tables below show full-time fees, for one year of study, for students in 2025-26.
Each year, UKRI usually increases its fee and stipend levels in line with inflation, based on the Treasury GDP deflator. Minimum fees recommended by UKRI are adopted as the University of Essex Home-level tuition fee for postgraduate researchers on most doctoral programmes. The UKRI minimum stipend level is often used as a guide for other funders.
Department/Centre | Home fee | International fee |
Life Sciences Psychology Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Science | £5,006 | £22,550 |
Art History Computational Finance and Economic Agents Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Economics Essex Business School Government Health & Social Care History Human Rights ISER Languages and Linguistics Law Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science Philosophy Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies Sociology | £5,006 | £19,650 |
Department | Home fee | International fee |
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies | £5,250 | £9,825 |
School of Health and Social Care: Occupational Therapy | £2,393 | £11,275 |
School of Health and Social Care: Clinical Psychology | £19,000
Fees for funded places are paid by Health Education East of England | £25000
Fee includes £5000 bench fee. |
School of Health and Social Care: Speech and Language Therapy (this course is only available to applicants from the UK or EU) | TBC | TBC |
School of Health and Social Care: all other Prof Doctorates | TBC | TBC |
School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences | TBC | TBC |
For students commencing their studies at the University of Essex in 2025-26 academic year, your fees will increase by up to 5% for each academic year of study. This is subject to review for each subsequent academic year.
PhD, MPhil, MAD and MSD tuition fees for Home students are set by UK Research Council (UKRI). UKRI usually increase their fee levels in line with inflation.
We publish information on how we use your fees.
The following fees apply to the courses listed above for all subject areas and all fee status categories for the academic year 2024-25. The rates for the academic year 2025-26 will be updated in the Summer term.
Completion, extension and other fees | Fee |
Completion Period (up to three terms) | £250 per term |
Further Completion for students first registered prior to 2008-2009 (up to three terms) | £500 per term |
Exceptional extension to maximum period, following Completion period, for students first registered from 2008-2009 | £500 per term |
Extension fee for Doctorate in Clinical Psychology | Part-time fees per term |
PGR re-examination or re-submission* | £200 |
*In addition to the re-examination fee, you will also be liable for the appropriate registration fee for the referral period. In most cases, this will be the ‘exceptional extension to maximum period’ fee (per term). However, if you originally submitted your thesis without using the maximum three terms of ‘completion period’ available to you, you will first be registered for the remainder of your ‘completion period’ term(s) followed by the ‘exceptional extension to maximum period’ for the rest of your referral period. Details of the fees for these periods of study are outlined above.
Listed below are the potential additional costs that Postgraduate Research Students may have to pay in addition to the standard fee when undertaking a research degree with us.
In some Schools/Departments/Centres, please note that additional fees are charged to cover direct costs related to the project, such as bench fees and the costs of consumables.
Where a research project will attract such fees, these will be detailed in the formal University offer letter. In other cases, there may some costs associated with your studies that are required in order for you to progress, alongside other costs that are not required but which you may wish to cover on a voluntary basis in order to support your studies.
All additional costs vary by department and, sometimes, by research area. Your department will be able to advise you about all possible additional costs associated with your studies.
Find our tuition fee payment policies and information on how you can pay your tuition fees.