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
• 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.

To register interest in the Minto Scholarship, please contact EconPGR.Enquiries@ed.ac.uk once you have submitted an application for the PhD programme. 

All applicants for the scholarship who are considered as eligible for entry onto the programme by the School's PGR Director will be interviewed.

The closing date for applications for the scholarship is Monday 2nd February 2026. Interviews will be held in late February/early March.

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

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