PhD Programme

Funding, Fee, and Scholarships

The Department of Political Science normally admits around four students per year to the PhD programme, and typically provides financial support in the form of tuition grants, stipends, teaching and research assistantships, along with support for postgraduate conference and research travel.

Where other funding is not available, applicants are strongly encouraged to apply for Trinity College Awards.

Students in their second year have been very successful in attracting funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Graduate students are also given the opportunity of teaching and tutoring on the Department’s undergraduate courses.

For the academic year 2012-13, the fee structure for the programme is:

• EU students - €5,250
• Non-EU students - €8,880

As mentioned above, the Department typically pays these fees on students' behalf.