496 verified fully funded scholarships & phd positions for 2026–2027 are open right now. The soonest deadline is 27 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by TU Delft, Max Planck Society and University of Manchester. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
University of Chicago · United States
The Chicago Fellows programme supports postdoctoral research across the Biological Sciences Division.
University of Leeds · United Kingdom
This joint Leeds–China Scholarship Council route combines university tuition support with CSC maintenance funding.
Choreomundus Consortium (VMU) · Lithuania
Choreomundus investigates dance and movement systems as intangible cultural heritage, and its relaunched Erasmus Mundus edition is run by a consortium led from Vytautas Magnus University with Athens, Clermont Auvergne and Roehampton. Applications for the 2027/2028 intake open on 15 October 2026, and the last campaign used a 1 February closing date.
Northumbria University · United Kingdom
The Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence CDT places people and communities at the centre of AI research.
University of Oxford · United Kingdom
Clarendon Scholarship is the University of Oxford's flagship graduate scholarship scheme, offering over 200 new scholarships every year to academically excellent students from around the world.
CLMCE Consortium (University of Glasgow) · United Kingdom
CLMCE, hosted at the University of Glasgow with European partners, studies children's literature, media and cultural mediation for careers in publishing, libraries and cultural institutions. Recent application rounds have used a mid-January scholarship deadline; the live dates are posted on the Glasgow programme page.
The University of Edinburgh · United Kingdom
Edinburgh’s College Research Awards support eligible doctoral offer holders, including Business School researchers. The award provides tuition and a living stipend for the specified period.
Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) · Germany
The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research offers up to 12 fully funded PhD positions in ageing research at Germany's leading ageing research cluster. Three-year contracts with TV-L E13 salary. Application deadline: 3 November 2026.
University of Glasgow · United Kingdom
Glasgow's School of Computing Science offers competitive funded doctoral studentships. Hosted by University of Glasgow in Glasgow. Apply by 31 January 2027.
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) · United Kingdom
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) recruits five CREATE PhD Programme Fellows, a Wellcome-funded global health doctoral training programme with studies beginning in September 2027. CREATE trains researchers to address major global health challenges through interdisciplinary research spanning epidemiology, infectious disease, immunology, health economics and health policy, with research projects designed jointly with partners in LMIC settings and a structured programme of training, fieldwork and secondment.
University of Cambridge · United Kingdom
Cambridge's CREATES NERC doctoral funding supports environmental research through eligible courses and projects.
Centre for Genomic Regulation · Spain
The CRG International PhD Programme offers fully funded 4-year fellowships at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona. Open to candidates of any nationality with a Bachelor's and Master's degree. Deadline: 22 November 2026.
University of Manchester · United Kingdom
CRUK Manchester Institute PhD recruitment 2027 is open: six funded projects starting autumn 2027, stipend from GBP 21,113/year with fees paid. Apply by 6 November 2026, 17:00 GMT.
University of Oxford · United Kingdom
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Chemical Synthesis for a Healthy Planet (CSHP CDT) offers a fully-funded four-year PhD programme delivered jointly by the Universities of Oxford and York. The programme trains the next generation of synthetic chemists to address global challenges in Human Health, Energy & Materials, and Food Security. Next deadline: 13 November 2026.
Chinese University of Hong Kong · Hong Kong
Full tuition HK$190,000 per annum plus HK$9,000 monthly stipend for MA in Intercultural Studies at CUHK. For underrepresented groups. Deadline: 15 January 2027.
German Academic Exchange Service · Germany
The DAAD EPOS Scholarship offers fully funded Master's and PhD studies in development-related fields at German universities. Monthly stipend €992 (Master's) or €1,300 (PhD) plus insurance, travel, and family allowances. Open to developing and emerging countries.
German Academic Exchange Service · Germany
DAAD RISE Germany 2027: paid summer research internships in Germany for undergraduate science and engineering students. €992 monthly stipend plus travel allowances. Apply by 30 November 2026 (11:59 pm CET).
DENSYS Consortium (Université de Lorraine) · France
DENSYS trains engineers for decentralised smart energy systems across Université de Lorraine, KTH, UPC and Politecnico di Torino. The 2026 round closed on 26 January at 18:00 Paris time, and the 2027 round is expected to use the same date for its scholarship applications.
The University of Edinburgh · United Kingdom
The Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing CDT combines language technology with responsible design and interdisciplinary research. Its application process begins with a first-stage online form.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Sweden
KTH Royal Institute of Technology is hiring a doctoral student to work on game-theoretic methods for multi-agent autonomous systems. The project develops decision-making frameworks in which multiple autonomous agents interact, compete or cooperate, using tools from game theory, optimisation and machine learning to design robust strategies under uncertainty.
ETH Zurich · Switzerland
Fully funded ETH Zurich doctoral position on generative AI-based computational design methods for engineering. Competitive salary. Deadline: 1 November 2026.
Lund University · Sweden
Lund University advertises a doctoral position in medical radiation physics focused on tritium persistence in soils and sediments. Tritium - a radioactive isotope of hydrogen released by nuclear facilities - behaves in environmental systems in ways that are still imperfectly understood, and the project studies how organically bound tritium persists in soils and sediments, how it moves through food chains, and what this means for radiological assessment.
ETH Zurich · Switzerland
Fully funded PhD evaluating novel mineral sources for treatment of micronutrient deficiencies in humans at ETH Zurich. Clinical trials focus. Rolling review.
ETH Zurich · Switzerland
Fully funded PhD in sparse reconstruction of virtual histology images at ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute. Rolling review. Machine learning and X-ray imaging.