Minto Scholarship

The scholarship provides a stipend at UKRI rates (this is updated each academic year; for 2025/2026 this was £20,780), paid monthly, and a full fee waiver, and is awarded for four years subject to satisfactory academic progression. The School's PhD programme has a duration of four years; applicants should be advised that no funding is provided during the writing-up period.

The Minto scholarship is available to students who are residents of the following countries:

• Australia
• New Zealand
• Canada
• Finland
• Norway
• Sweden
• Denmark

Applicants for the scholarship must have applied for first-year entry to the School's PhD programme. Information on the application process can be found on the Degree Finder at the following link: PhD with Integrated Study in Economics

All scholarships will be awarded on academic merit. 

To obtain admission to the PhD programme, applicants must have a distinction in a Masters degree equivalent to the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics MSc, taught at Edinburgh (more information on this is available on our website at the following link: Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics).

We also require a research proposal that is feasible and in an area that we can supervise; information on our academic staff can be found on our website at the following link: Academic staff - Schol of Economics.

The deadline for applying for this scholarship has now passed.

Interviews will be held in late February/early March.

The University reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to amend or withdraw any of the advertised scholarships, without further notice.

All decisions will be communicated by the end of March 2026.

Grace Oliver, Projects and Planning Officer - EconPGR.enquiries@ed.ac.uk