Application Guide
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 unsure where to begin, we recommend first consulting our guide to getting started.
How to apply
Please note
The instructions in this Application Guide are relevant to applications for all graduate courses at Oxford, except for:
Important information about published information
This is a guide to making an application in 2025-26, and cannot be used to apply in later years. Guidance for applications in 2026-27 will be available from September 2026.
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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