Graduate admissions statistics

42,065 graduate applications were received for entry in the academic year 2024-25.

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

Graduate headline figures

13,229 applications (31.4%) were for graduate research degrees and 28,836 applications (68.6%) were for graduate taught degrees.
31,261 applications (74.3%) were received from candidates with a country of domicile outside of the UK. Of these 4,121 (9.8%) were domiciled in EU countries and 27,140 (64.5%) were domiciled in non-EU countries. 10,804 (25.7%) were domiciled in the United Kingdom.
35,581 individuals applied to one or more graduate programme.
The total number of acceptances was 6,428. Of those accepting their offer of a place at Oxford in 2024-25, 3,350 (52.1%) acceptances were female and 3,075 (47.9%) acceptances were male.

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