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Who can apply: Citizens of countries where the Japanese embassy runs MEXT recruitment

Who can apply: Citizens of countries on NIIED's eligible list

Who can apply: Any nationality, already in a Canadian PhD (international recipients capped at 15%)

Who can apply: Any nationality, already in a Canadian PhD (humanities/social sciences)

Who can apply: Students already in an English-taught Master's/PhD at BUT

Who can apply: International students nominated by a French institution

Who can apply: Any nationality except UK citizens

Who can apply: Any nationality (bachelor's earned January 2020 or later)

Who can apply: Researchers from 183 eligible countries (Master's done, age 35 or under)

Who can apply: International applicants (not Turkish citizens)

Who can apply: Any non-Chinese nationality

Who can apply: Young people from underrepresented backgrounds, mainly African

The International Baccalaureate Excellence Scholarship gives £5,000/year to overseas undergraduates — one of the few named, disclosed undergraduate awards we found at Imperial. For PhD applicants specifically, the President's PhD Scholarships are far more generous: full tuition plus a £26,500/year stipend plus a £2,000/year consumables fund for your first 3 years.

The KAUST Fellowship covers tuition, housing, health insurance and relocation support for admitted graduate students of any nationality.

Estonian PhD study does not work like bachelor's or master's study: there is no tuition fee for anyone, and international doctoral candidates are hired as salaried 'Early Stage Researchers' rather than paying to study.

TUM doctoral candidates are exempt from tuition regardless of citizenship, and are typically employed as research associates rather than paying to study — a fundamentally different model from bachelor's or master's study.

AGH's Doctoral School charges no tuition to any doctoral student and instead pays every admitted candidate a monthly scholarship.

KTH doctoral students are employees of the university, not fee-paying students — the standard Swedish PhD model.

University of Warsaw's Doctoral School charges no tuition and pays every admitted student an automatic stipend for up to 4 years.

Wrocław University of Science and Technology, founded in 1945 on the engineering tradition of the pre-war Technische Hochschule Breslau, is one of Poland's largest technical universities with roughly 26,000 students across 50 bachelor's, master's and PhD programmes. Its Faculty of Information and Communication Technology runs a fully English-taught Applied Computer Science engineering bachelor's covering software development, algorithms, databases, networks and IoT.

The University of Iceland in Reykjavík is the country's oldest and largest university. It charges no tuition — only an annual registration fee — and while Iceland is introducing tuition for students from outside the EU/EEA/EFTA from 2027-28, doctoral (PhD) students are exempt, so PhD study stays close to free.