Graduate students are an essential part of the thriving and exciting research environment that characterises the science and mathematics community at Oxford. There are ten departments in the Division: Chemistry, Computing, Earth Sciences, Engineering Science, Materials, Mathematics, Physics, Plant Sciences, Statistics and Zoology. There are also four interdisciplinary doctoral training centres in the Division, established with funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC): the Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation, the Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre, the Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre, and the Systems Approaches to Biomedical Sciences Industrial Doctorate Centre.
Each department is amongst the very best in its field in the United Kingdom, and all have outstanding international reputations for research and teaching. We have extensive links with other leading universities, research institutes, public sector bodies, and business and industry, in the UK and abroad.
Teaching is a major part of the Division’s activities and a number of highly rated taught Master’s courses are offered. For research students, a range of courses are available and the Division is developing further cross-disciplinary provision for key research skills.
Research at the interface between disciplines is strongly encouraged, both within the mathematical, life and physical sciences, and within the medical and environmental sciences. There are opportunities for graduate students in all departments to study for doctoral degrees, and in many departments to study for Master of Science by Research degrees, under the supervision of leading researchers in their fields. Our graduates are much in demand from academia, business and industry, government and the professions.
The research interests of each department, and programmes of study offered, are set out in the following pages. Applications are welcome from prospective graduate students from all over the world.
All candidates are strongly advised to contact the department in which they wish to study before applying, and to check the department’s admissions webpages for studentship application deadlines.
