Sitting in the quad at Linacre College
Sitting in the quad at Linacre College
Credit: Ashley Tsai

Graduate admissions statistics

37,593 graduate applications were received for entry in the academic year 2022-23.

Our graduate students represent many countries and cultures, and are from a wide variety of academic and professional backgrounds.

Graduate headline figures

  • 11,413 applications (30.4%) were for graduate research degrees and 26,180 applications (69.6%) were for graduate taught degrees.

  • 28,019 applications (74.5%) were received from candidates with a country of domicile outside of the UK. 3,767 (10.0%) were domiciled in EU countries and 24,252 (64.5%) were domiciled in non-EU countries. 9,574 (25.5%) were domiciled in the United Kingdom.

  • 32,377 individuals applied to one or more graduate programme.

  • The total number of acceptances was 6,057. Of those accepting their offer or a place at Oxford in 2022-23, 2,870 (47.4%) were male and 3,187 (52.6%) acceptances were female.

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2022-23 admission cycle

Graduate Admissions statistics for previous years

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2021-22 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2020-21 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2019-20 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2018-19 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2017-18 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2016-17 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2015-16 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2014-15 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2013-14 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2012-13 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2011-12 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2010-11 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2009-10 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2008-09 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2007-08 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2006-07 admission cycle

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2005-06 admission cycle

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