12 months full time
Fees per academic year 2013-14
UK and EU: full time £5,500
International: full time £14,750
More information is available about tuition fees and discounts.
An MRes is a research-based qualification with a taught component that is of an equivalent standard to an MSc.
The MRes in Animal Behaviour is one of a suite of MRes programmes. It provides a springboard into a career that involves a working knowledge of scientific research in academia and industry.
It is designed for graduates with a BSc in the life sciences and is also suitable for graduates from other science disciplines and for intercalating and fully qualified MBBS or BDS students. The MRes can be taken either as a stand-alone qualification or act as an entry route onto a PhD or MD.
The programme provides training in contemporary biosciences through three subject-knowledge modules in or related to:
The programme enables you to experience an internationally competitive research area, predominantly in academia but also potentially in industry.
If you register for an integrated MRes/PhD, MRes/MD or MRes/DDS you will be allocated projects that are relevant to your proposed PhD or MD, or DDS programme.
The core module on the biological study of behaviour introduces the central questions related to animal behaviour research (adaptive consequences, proximate mechanisms, development, and evolutionary history) and the research methods associated with each.
Research-led seminars, delivered by members of Newcastle University's Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, form a significant part of the programme and cover a wide range of taxa (insects to humans), topics (olfaction to cooperation), and methodologies.
Find out more detailed information about the programme modules
An upper-second-class Honours degree, or international equivalent, in a science or related discipline, is preferred. You should also provide two satisfactory, appropriate references.
Applicants whose first language is not English require a minimum of IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.5 both overall and for each sub-section).
Our INTO Newcastle University Centre can provide extra tuition to help you meet the University's English language requirements.
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has rules for international students regarding minimum English language requirements.
The Centre for Behaviour and Evolution at Newcastle University has a limited number of Scholarships (usually to the value of £1,000) available to students who apply for either the MRes in Animal Behaviour or the MRes in Evolution and Human Behaviour. It is open to UK, EU and international students who are not already fully funded by external sources.
Other funding information is provided on the MRes webpages.
More information on scholarships, studentships, bursaries and other funding is available from our database.Visit our postgraduate application site.
The MRes programmes begin at the end of September and applications are accepted at any time of year up until the closing dates.
The closing date for applications from overseas students is mid-June, UK and EU graduates are encouraged to apply before the end of July. Applicants to the MRes in Evolution and Human Behaviour, who want to be considered for a scholarship should submit their application before 1 July. Under exceptional circumstances applications may be reviewed at the discretion of the MRes Director of Admissions and Recruitment.
Please note: As a formal condition of the offer to study at Newcastle University, students from outside the UK/EU are required to pay a deposit of £1,500 or submit an official letter of sponsorship for their chosen programme. The deposit payment is non refundable, but will be deducted from tuition fees upon registration.
For further information:
UK/EU students should contact:
Medical Sciences Graduate School
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7002
Fax: +44 (0)191 222 7038
E-mail: medpg-enquiries@ncl.ac.uk
International students wishing to discuss these opportunities may contact:
Professor Steve Yeaman
Director of International Postgraduate Studies
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7433
Email: biomed-international-pg@ncl.ac.uk
This programme is within the subject area of Biological Sciences.