Finance PhD
Queen's University Belfast · Belfast, United Kingdom
About this programme
The Department of Finance is an energetic and enterprising research cluster that continuously strives for excellence in both its teaching and scholarship. The group's expertise spans equities, derivatives, banking, corporate finance, and financial history, with particular strengths in financial markets and institutions, financial history, empirical asset pricing, household finance, sustainable finance, and machine learning and AI in finance. Research students benefit from: • Tailored finance courses and reading groups for rigorous preparation • Access to FinTrU Trading Room facili
- Level
- Doctoral
- Field
- Business
- Tuition
- £22,500 / year
- Study mode
- Full-time, Part-time
Visa
- Visa required
- Student visa
- Application fee
- GBP 558
- Proof of funds
- GBP 1,171/mo
- Processing time
- 3–8 weeks
Standard figures for this route. Some applicants pay a reduced fee or none at all — confirm your own case on the official visa page.
Scholarships available (11)
- Commonwealth ScholarshipFully funded
- Queen's University - China Scholarship Council Joint PhD ScholarshipsFully funded · Annual call - see programme page for current deadline
- Alumni Postgraduate Research AwardsPartial funding · Deadline 9 May (annual)
- North-South Postgraduate ScholarshipsPartial funding · Deadline 13 May (annual)
- Early Confirmation AwardPartial funding
- Great Britain-China Educational Trust Chinese Student AwardsPartial funding · Two rounds yearly: 11 October (autumn) and 11 April (spring)
- Canadian Centennial Scholarship FundPartial funding · Annual call - see programme page
- Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund GrantsPartial funding · Deadline 2026 round closed. Check official website for future rounds