Venture Science Doctorate: venture-creation PhD program (funded scholarship)

The Venture Science Doctorate (VSD) program, 3rd cohort, starting January 2026.

** Applications for the January 2026 intake are now CLOSED. You can still submit an application if you're interested in being considered for future programs. **

About VSD

The world’s first 3-year venture creation focused PhD program run by Deep Science Venture College at Woolf University: a globally recognised, decentralised institution widening access to higher education. Our focus is exclusively on solving global challenges in health, climate, agriculture and computation through science as the basis for designing research projects from first-principles, and creating new companies founded by candidates based on this research.

The VSD is backed by a philanthropic consortium of mission aligned Partners, including Schmidt Futures, Innovate UK and SPRIN-D (Germany), and embedded in a global R&D coalit...