Funded Studentships

The department holds funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to support a number of Home fee status research students per year. These awards cover fees at the Home rate and a stipend at the standard UKRI rate. All applicants for the DPhil with a home fee status will automatically be considered for this funding.

Students with an Overseas fee status are also considered for a small number of the awards from EPSRC. There is no separate application for these awards, but competition is strong.

In addition, the Department advertises studentships funded by various partners, sponsors and the department.

DPhil Studentships

Candidates are encouraged to make informal equiries to the member of Faculty listed in each of the studentships. Candiates must submit a graduate application and are expected to meet the gradute admissions criteria. Please see below for details of studentships available for October 2025. Where relevant, please take note of the reference for the studentship and quote this in your application.

Fully Funded Doctoral Studentship: Probabilistic Verification of Concurrent and Distributed Systems: the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford is offering one fully funded DPhil studentship for home or overseas students in the Programming Languages and Verification themes under the supervision of Professor Nobuko Yoshida and Professor David Parker to commence next academic year (October 2025). Learn more about the studentship here.

Fully Funded Doctoral Studentship: Computational Cardiology: the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford is offering one fully funded DPhil studentship for home students in the Computational Biology and Health Informatics theme under the supervision of Professor Blanca Rodriguez to commence next academic year (October 2025). Learn more about the studentship here.

DPhil Teaching Assistant opportunities

The department employs a number of DPhil Research students each year as Teaching Assistants. Details will be provided below when studentships become available.

Graduate Scholarships and Other Funding Opportunities

The University offers a variety of scholarship programmes based on academic excellence, giving candidates from around the world the opportunity to pursue graduate study. You can find out more about scholarships, plus other graduate funding opportunities from the University's Graduate Funding pages. The helpful fees, funding and scholarship search tool will enable you to find out about the cost of studying and living at Oxford, as well as discover scholarship opportunities.

Fees

Fees for the DPhil in Computer Science can be found at the main university website.

For an outline of fees and living costs, please use the Fees, Funding and Scholarship Search tool.