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Course Overview

Areas of research in which staff are currently active include gaming, e-business, home automation, learning technologies, intelligent systems, security and forensics, robotics, and cloud computing.

Why Choose Us?

  • Expert staff supervisors, keen to help their students succeed
  • Encouragement and support for you to publish your work
  • Opportunities to support and teach other students, including bringing your new research into their education.

What's covered in the course?

A Ph.D., “Doctor of Philosophy”, is the highest-level qualification, based on individual and detailed research, resulting in a thesis of about 80,000 words.

The School offers specialist supervision if you wish to pursue research programmes for the award of Ph.D. You may undertake your research either full-time or part-time. If you are accepted for Ph.D. research you will be assigned to a Director of Studies (your main supervisor) and at least one-second supervisor. There will be a programme of training workshops and seminars to support you.

As a research student, you will be exposed to a versatile range of academics. You will be encouraged to take part in various activities, seminars, published in collaboration with your supervisors, and take part in research conferences nationally and (where possible) internationally. The Faculty as a whole also has a growing population of research students who organise social and academic events.

Entry Requirement 

Ph.D. applicants will normally be expected to hold a Master's degree in a relevant area.

You will need to complete the research degree application form and provide a statement of your initial research ideas (we advise between 1,000 and 2,000 words, with full referencing to relevant literature).

As each Ph.D. is an individual research project, it is impossible to specify precisely what additional costs (fieldwork, travel, etc) may be incurred. Any potential costs should be identified in your application.

Although the School and Faculty have some limited financial support towards the direct costs of research (e.g. attendance at conferences and workshops, etc.) this is allocated on a competitive basis and you may need to supplement this. 

UCAS tariff

Under the current tariff, a typical standard offer from Birmingham City University would be BBC at A-Level, DMM in a BTEC Extended Diploma, or D*D* in a BTEC Diploma, which equates to 280 tariff points.

Under the new UCAS tariff, this will equate to 112 points.

English Language Requirements

International Students

Valid Academic IELTS certificate with an overall score of 7.0 with no band below 6.5 or equivalent.

Fees

Part-Time fee: £6600 per year


This information was accurate on : 30/04/2021
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