The Mitochondrial Biology Unit has an active post-graduate programme for training students for the Ph D or occasionally M Phil degrees. The programme aims to provide high quality training in both research and in transferable skills. The students are supervised and assessed by a research supervisor and a separate advisor, under the overall supervision of the Unit's graduate education committee consisting of three of the Unit's Faculty.

Students become registered for the Ph D (or M Phil) degree at the University of Cambridge in the Graduate School of Life Sciences (Biological, Medical and Veterinary Sciences). At present 45 students in the Unit are registered in this programme.