> Last I heard, PhD students in my old department were getting upwards of 
> 15k a
> year - that was the standard EPSRC stipend that any engineering PhD 
> student
> could expect, which won't vary much between universities. And that's 
> tax-free.
> I imagine it's similar or better in mainland Europe or the US.

Yeh, when I was at Universtiy (5 years ago) it seemed that 12-14k tax free 
was the norm.  15k tax free is equivalent to about 19k gross, so it's not at 
all that bad.

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