This guide explains how to complete the graduate application form and provide supporting documents.
Our Application Guide covers all aspects of completing the graduate application form and uploading your supporting documents. If you're looking for tips and advice on preparing your application, such as how to write a personal statement or how to find a supervisor, please consult our How-to guides.
This section covers when to apply, how to start an application, and how to complete the first two tabs of the application form.
This section covers how to complete the following two tabs of the application form.
This section of the Application Guide covers how to provide references as part of your application.
This section covers how to complete the 'Qualifications', 'Languages' and 'Funding' tabs of the application form, and our requirements for English language proficiency.
This section explains how to complete the 'Supporting Documents' tab of the application form, and the requirements for supporting documents.
This section explains how to complete the 'Declaration' tab of the application form and pay the application fee.
This is a guide to making an application in 2023-24, and cannot be used to apply in later years. Guidance for applications in 2024-25 will be available from September 2024.
This Application Guide and the Graduate Admissions webpages are definitive, with the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about Oxford’s admissions process and requirements. These may change and you should consider the version currently online to be the most accurate source of information at any given time.
External websites may give information about graduate courses and admissions to Oxford which can be incomplete and/or inaccurate. Department and college websites may also repeat information about how to apply. However, if there is any conflict, this Application Guide and the Graduate Admissions webpages should be considered definitive and accurate.
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If you're thinking about applying for graduate study at Oxford, our How-to guides provide advice and tips from our students and staff, such as how to write a CV, personal statement or research proposal. This new section replaces our Applicant advice hub.
The instructions in this Application Guide are relevant to applications for all graduate courses at Oxford, except for:
After starting an application via the course page, you can save your progress and continue it later:
Please be aware that genuine communications from the University will be sent to you from [email protected] or from an ox.ac.uk email address.
If you have a query about graduate admissions at Oxford, we're here to help:
