Application Guide

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.

The instructions in this Application Guide are relevant to applications for all graduate courses at Oxford that use the standard application form.

This is a guide to making an application during the 2025-26 academic year, and cannot be used to apply in later years. For the majority of courses, applications made in the 2025-26 academic year will lead to entry into the 2026-27 academic year. Exceptions are noted on individual course pages. Guidance for making applications in 2026-27, will be available from mid-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.

Genuine communications from the University will be sent to you from [email protected] or from an ‘ox.ac.uk’ email address.