Hi all,
Please can you help? I am trying to gather info on the cost of PhDs per year in Universities internationally, as the president of my uni anounced a 100% increase in fees in 4th year and beyond, bringing the cost to just over 5.000€ per year, and the cost of a 6 year PhD to aprox 30.000€ instead of 22.500€. As most of the PhD students in my Uni are self-funded, (only one girl in my subject has funding, out of 10 of us) that is a considerable cost, esp considering it is before we spend on books not available in the library, travelling for conferences etc (and for me personally most of the books I need arent in the library)
Here is a break down of our old and new pricing structure:

Year 1 5.200€ Year 1 5.200€
year 2 5.200€ year 2 5.200€
year 3 5.200€ year 3 5.200€
year 4 2.600€ year 4 2.600€

total for average 4 year phd under old system is 18.200€
total for average 4 year phd under new system is 20.800€

if for any reason (pregancy/marraige/illness/mental block/general life just slowing the process down) your PhD continues into the quite accepted 5-6 year bracket, the difference gets greater:

year 5 2.600€ year 5 5.200€
year 6 2.600€ year 6 5.200€

5 year PhD old system 20.800€ 5 year PhD new system 26.000€
6 year PhD old system 23.400€ 6 year PhD new system 31.200€

this is at todays price, which of course is only going to increase over the next few years, and covers tuition and services (such as a cut in library opening hours, departments loosing staff due to retirment who are not being replaced due to a recruitment embargo, and a ban on buying new books for the forseeable future!)

The reason for this increase? Seemingly it is to bring us inline with international practice? So can you all please help, as we are detirmined to oppose these increases, by telling me how much does yours cost? is there a reduction in years 4 and beyond, or does it stay the same? if the prices are similar is this becase there is funding available?

Thank you all so much!

Hey,

I'm funded so not sure on exact costs, but know that yearly fees for my uni are around £3000 per year. If you go over 3 years and are writing up, there is a writing up fee of around £500 per year (I think). I also get conferences, etc paid for and we are able to order new books into the library.

Your fees seem extortionate.