Funding for your course

Most students will be required to arrange, or apply for, their own sources of funding, and details of fees and sources of funding can be found on the University admissions website. The exception is when a specific DPhil project is advertised, usually as the result of a successful bid for Research Council funding. Please note that most other sources of funding (including those detailed below) require application by the January deadline.

School of Archaeology Student Bursaries

A small number of bursaries  tenable for a maximum of three years, is available.  These are awarded on the basis of merit to applicants who have no other source of external funding.  There is no separate applications process and successful candidates will be notified by mid-May 2012.

Home/EU Students

If resident in England and Wales all British applicants wishing to read for a degree in the School of Archaeology are eligible to apply to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Applicants resident in Scotland are eligible for support from the Scottish Students Awards Agency and those resident in Northern Ireland from the Department of Education for Northern Ireland.

Archaeology in Oxford currently has three AHRC studentships per year for DPhil students and two for Masters students.

European students are eligible to apply for a Scatcherd Scholarship.  European Union citizens are eligible for their fees to be paid by the UK Research Councils, most often the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) or the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)..

This year we have a quota of one NERC studentship in Archaeological Science which covers fees and maintenance for a doctoral student.

Overseas Students

All overseas graduate students are also eligible to apply to the Clarendon Fund and for Overseas Research Student (ORS) awards.

• American nationals may apply for British Marshall Scholarships in the case of the two year MPhil degree and for Fulbright Scholarships in the case of the one year MSt degree.
• Commonwealth nationals may apply for Commonwealth Scholarships.
• Rhodes Scholars - The MPhil is among the subjects that Rhodes Scholars may study at Oxford.

Funding once your course has started

World Archaeology

The African Studies Committee administers funds for the ORISHA (Oxford Research in the Scholarship and Humanities of Africa) Scholarships. Archaeology and Egyptology are among the subjects included in ORISHA's remit. Further information is available from the Secretary of the Inter-Faculty Committee for African Studies, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD.

The board of management for the Gerald Averay Wainwright Near Eastern Archaeological Fund invites applications for travel scholarships which will be awarded to postgraduate students who have completed at least one year of study at a UK university in Near and Middle Eastern, non-classical Archaeology. For further information, contact the Secretary to the board of management for the Wainwright Fund, The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE.

The Boise Fund was established by Mr Charles Watson Boise to support research on the antiquity and evolutionary origin of modern Homo sapiens and other hominins, with particular emphasis on the continued exploration of appropriate sites in Africa, and on the early migration of Palaeolithic communities.   The Committee for the administration of the Boise Fund invites applications from Oxford University-based researchers, including graduate students.  Notice of award rounds is given in the Oxford University Gazette.

Classical Archaeology

The Craven Committee funds research (travel, conferences, fieldwork) in Classical Archaeology. For further information, contact the Classics Faculty Board Secretary, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LU.

Travel Funds

• Meyerstein Fund, School of Archaeology
• Colleges also have their own travel funds for graduate study and research. The amounts obtainable from these sources are variable.