many international students who want to Ph.D. in quantitative finance or statistics in the UK worry about funding issues as scholarships usually are given to people from Euproe.For a US citizen, what are the possible grants resources available? For a Canadian, what are the possible grants resources?Where can they find those resources?Please share your thoughts to help those students

most american phd programs give fellowships and assistantships to those admitted into the phd program.

QuoteOriginally posted by: KackToodlesmost american phd programs give fellowships and assistantships to those admitted into the phd program.Please read the title. I am asking the case in the UK NOT in the US

Funding in the UK is far from common. Funding in Reading(no fees + £10 000) is automatic if accepted and there is no nationality requirements : www.icmacentre.rdg.ac.uk

Most finance research students in the UK are from countries outside the EU. Many of these students have a living allowance and fees paid by their university, in return for teaching and/or research assistance.Competition at some universities for such studentships is severe, at others it may be easy to secure funding.It is best to apply early (now for next October) and to be able to persuade people that you can be of real assistance. Strong linguistic skills, finance education and math training will help.SV

QuoteOriginally posted by: SvetlanaMost finance research students in the UK are from countries outside the EU. Many of these students have a living allowance and fees paid by their university, in return for teaching and/or research assistance.Competition at some universities for such studentships is severe, at others it may be easy to secure funding.It is best to apply early (now for next October) and to be able to persuade people that you can be of real assistance. Strong linguistic skills, finance education and math training will help.SVAt which universities is it easy to get funding?

QuoteOriginally posted by: CarolynTQuoteOriginally posted by: SvetlanaMost finance research students in the UK are from countries outside the EU. Many of these students have a living allowance and fees paid by their university, in return for teaching and/or research assistance.Competition at some universities for such studentships is severe, at others it may be easy to secure funding.It is best to apply early (now for next October) and to be able to persuade people that you can be of real assistance. Strong linguistic skills, finance education and math training will help.SVAt which universities is it easy to get funding?The bad ones. I will let you figure out which ones belong to this class.

It can seem a bit random. Some years we need teaching help in some areas more than in other years. Some years there is more money in our budget.Try to decide what you want to study (QF<>statistics), try to identify where you can find good supervision and only then think hard about the funding issue.SV

QuoteOriginally posted by: SvetlanaIt can seem a bit random. Some years we need teaching help in some areas more than in other years. Some years there is more money in our budget.Try to decide what you want to study (QF<>statistics), try to identify where you can find good supervision and only then think hard about the funding issue.SVIn the UK, which professors have similar interests as Andrew Lo's interests? How about stephen taylor?

QuoteOriginally posted by: CarolynTQuoteOriginally posted by: SvetlanaIt can seem a bit random. Some years we need teaching help in some areas more than in other years. Some years there is more money in our budget.Try to decide what you want to study (QF<>statistics), try to identify where you can find good supervision and only then think hard about the funding issue.SVIn the UK, which professors have similar interests as Andrew Lo's interests? How about stephen taylor?Andrew Lo is in financial econometrics and I would think Carol Alexandra in Reading will be pretty close. If you want to do research on more die hard financial econometrics, you can take a look at the research interests of Neil Shephard at Oxford.

As Carolyn T must know, Stephen Taylor = Svetlana.Successful UK academics in the area of financial econometrics include (alphabetically) Carol Alexander (Reading), Chris Brooks (City), Ser-Huang Poon (Manchester), Mark Salmon (Warwick), Steve Satchell (Cambridge), Neil Shephard (Oxford) and Stephen Taylor (Lancaster).SV

Is Dr. Christian Dunis at Liverpoor J R university included?

No comment. CarolynT can always e-mail me...SV