EU students on full-time bachelor's programmes at the University of Malta, MCAST and ITS pay no tuition fees, while non-EU students pay – e.g. €8,500 a year for a BA in History at UM. The University of Malta has around 1,900 international students from 127 countries, and English is enough for most casual jobs. Find out where to look for housing and what around €900–1,400 a month covers.
How long: at the University of Malta you can do a PhD full-time or part-time; MCAST offers a part-time professional Doctor of Research (DRes) lasting at least 5 years.
Your status: mostly a student; doctoral students may teach or demonstrate for up to 100 hours a year.
How to get in: a relevant master's degree (some holders of a First or Upper Second Class honours degree also qualify), a research proposal of 2,000–3,000 words and an interview. You can start on 1 October, 1 December, 1 February, 1 April or 1 June.
Where to look: doctoral positions and calls are published on the websites of universities and their doctoral schools and on EURAXESS. Programmes in Malta in our database: Malta – 37 doctoral programmes (as of September 2026) »
Sources: Eurydice – national description of third-cycle (PhD) programmes (updated 25 March 2026). As of October 2026.
Sources: European Commission – Study in Europe (education.ec.europa.eu/study-in-europe), Eurostat, official national study and residence portals and authorities, Eurodesk, enic-naric.net, studentnews.eu. As of September 2026.
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