Biological Sciences

Features

• In our graduate school, you will also gain the broader personal and professional skills essential both for your PhD research and for your lifelong career choices.
• We have a strong record of supporting postgraduate research students in this exciting and rapidly developing subject area.

Programme Structure

Our main areas of research are:

• computational and systems biology
• developmental biology
• ecology and evolution
• microbiology
• molecular and cellular biosciences
• neuroscience
• plants and food security

Admission requirements

Academic requirements

GPA: Upper Second Class

English requirements

English language proficiency tests:

• Duolingo English Test: 120
• PTE Academic: 67
• IELTS: 6.5

General requirements

• an upper second class honours (2:1) degree
• an equivalent set of qualifications, for example a lower second class (2:2) honours degree, plus an MSc

Fees and funding

Tuition Fees

International: 51,576 AUD / year (≈ 27,300 GBP / year)

Domestic: 9,896 AUD / year (≈ 5,238 GBP / year)

Living costs

Southampton, United Kingdom: 1,317-2,065 AUD / month