University College London (UCL)

UCL's funding is spread across the university, its faculties and the UK research councils, and the records below draw from all three. The university's own graduate awards, including its research excellence scholarships for doctoral students, are administered centrally, while most other funding is attached to a faculty or a specific research project.

For PhD applicants the research councils matter most, because they fund the studentships that UCL departments award to specific projects and candidates. In practice that means a funded doctoral place at UCL usually follows from matching a funded project or a supervisor who has a studentship to offer, not from winning one open competition. Taught postgraduate students meet a different field: faculty scholarships, programme discounts and the international awards UCL runs with partner organizations.

UCL publishes its scholarship rounds with firm dates, and the deadline on a card is the current one for that cycle. Each card links to the office that owns the award, and that page is where you confirm eligibility, since several UCL awards are restricted by nationality or by the programme you apply to.