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Graduate study at Oxford is a distinctive experience: all graduate students are members of both a department or faculty in their subject area and a multidisciplinary college.

The golden pelican at the top of the Pelican Sundial in the main quad of Corpus Christi College.

Golden pelican at the top of the Pelican Sundial in the main quad of Corpus Christi. Credit: Steve Langton / Graduate Photography Competition

Oxford’s colleges, including those designated as societies and permanent private halls (PPHs), are small academic communities where graduate students meet academics and fellow students in a range of subjects from around the world. Several colleges are dedicated to graduate students only and provide uniquely tailored college support for over one third of our graduate population. Two external colleges also accept Oxford's graduate students for theology and related courses.

Colleges accepting graduate students

Courses offered by each college
The chapel of Balliol College in Summer

Balliol College

Balliol is one of the oldest and most centrally situated of the Oxford colleges, well known for its high academic standards, diverse community, friendly atmosphere and lively spirit of intellectual debate.

Front of Blackfriars

Blackfriars

Blackfriars Hall has been a centre of scholarly excellence for over 800 years. Located in the heart of the city, Blackfriars is a small and welcoming academic community that flourishes as a space for intellectual and social debate and discussion.

Chapel and quad of Brasenose College

Brasenose College

Situated in the heart of Oxford next to the Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera, Brasenose is a friendly and diverse community with a strong tradition of academic excellence.

Campion Hall

Campion Hall

Campion Hall is the Jesuit Hall in the University of Oxford. Its unique character combines the intellectual and educational traditions of Oxford with the Society of Jesus. Accepts only graduate students.

A view across the fish pond in the centre of Tom Quad with a statue of Mercury in the middle

Christ Church

Christ Church is home to a welcoming community of students and staff studying in one of the most beautiful colleges in Oxford. Christ Church has a vibrant, international academic community in a diverse range of disciplines.

The golden pelican at the top of the Pelican Sundial in the main quad of Corpus Christi College.

Corpus Christi College

Corpus Christi College combines a significant intellectual reputation with a friendly community life and a strong commitment to graduates.

View across Front Quad towards the Chapel, with the MCR on the left

Exeter College

Graduates make a valuable, and valued, contribution to life at Exeter, both through regular events designed to stimulate intellectual debate and through the thriving MCR, which in 2016 celebrated the 50th anniversary of its foundation.

A view of the Radcliffe Observatory

Green Templeton College

Green Templeton College is a graduate community at the heart of the University of Oxford. It brings together students, academics and practitioners with a particular focus on business and management, health and medicine, and other social sciences.

Harris Manchester College Tate Quad

Harris Manchester College

Harris Manchester College is dedicated solely to mature students, and accepts both graduate and undergraduate students from the age of 21, with no upper age limit.

A view of the Bridge of Sighs

Hertford College

Hertford welcomes students from around the world to engage in study and research across all of the University’s academic divisions.

Jesus College

Jesus College

Jesus College’s lively graduate community makes up 45% of the student body. The college is committed to offering its graduates the best possible support for their studies, through very generous research and book allowances, a range of grants, high-quality accommodation, a Graduate Study Room, and other facilities.

Liddon Quad of Keble College

Keble College

Keble’s home for graduate students, the H B Allen Centre, opened in 2018. Located just north of the college's main site on Parks Road, the centre combines graduate accommodation and facilities with space dedicated to research, innovation and start-ups. It raises the college’s provision for the graduate community to a new level.

The Geoffrey Thomas Building in Kellogg College

Kellogg College

Kellogg College is Oxford’s most international and interdisciplinary graduate college, championing lifelong learning and academic opportunity. Accepts only graduate students.

The Talbot Building of Lady Margaret Hall, viewed across the Wolfson Quad

Lady Margaret Hall

Lady Margaret Hall has a thriving graduate community, welcoming students from all over the world.

Looking towards the Griffiths Building and grounds at Linacre College

Linacre College

Linacre is a graduate college with a strong environmental and egalitarian ethos. The student community comes from more than 80 different nations and most are new to Oxford. Accepts only graduate students.

Front Quad, Lincoln College in Autumn

Lincoln College

Lincoln College has long been known for its strong commitment to graduate study and offers excellent facilities and accommodation for its graduate students.

Magdalen College

Magdalen College

Magdalen has some of the most beautiful buildings in Oxford and is set in 120 acres of grounds which include the Deer Park and Addison’s riverside walk. The atmosphere is relaxed but with ambitions towards academic and extra-curricular success.

Mansfield College

Mansfield College

Mansfield College offers an informal, stimulating environment in which tutors and students work together to achieve academic excellence and sustain a supportive as well as lively community. In any one year there are around 195 graduates in the Middle Common Room (MCR).

Merton College

Merton College

Graduates at Merton College form part of a dynamic and diverse intellectual community. In addition to excellent facilities, they enjoy many opportunities to interact with one another and with established scholars.

A view of New College chapel and quad

New College

New College is one of the largest, most famous and architecturally striking colleges, with beautiful gardens, and a variety of modern and old buildings. It has a thriving, supportive and internationally diverse graduate community, with approximately 100 new graduates admitted each year.

Nuffield College lower quad with view of pond and college tower

Nuffield College

Nuffield is a graduate college dedicated to advanced study and innovative research in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and international relations, and sociology and social policy. Accepts only graduate students.

Oriel College

Oriel College

Oriel College has beautiful historic buildings dating from the 14th to the 21st century.

Pembroke College

Pembroke College

Pembroke College warmly welcomes graduate students from all over the world to study a wide variety of courses. With over 250 graduate students on course, there is a thriving graduate community and plenty to get involved in.

Regent's Park College

Regent's Park College

Regent’s Park is known for its friendly atmosphere and strong sense of community. It has a thriving student population of around 300, including undergraduates, graduates, ordinands, and international visiting students.

Reuben College

Reuben College

Oxford’s newest graduate college is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary exchange within an inclusive and impact-oriented community. Accepts only graduate students.

Prospective students and their families look around Somerville College.

Somerville College

Somerville has a diverse and lively graduate community, reading for a wide variety of disciplines.

St Anne's College

St Anne's College

St Anne’s, well-known for its friendly and supportive academic environment, has over 300 graduates from many countries.

St Antony's College

St Antony's College

St Antony’s is a cosmopolitan, vibrant community of international graduate students specialising in the social sciences and humanities, known globally for its stimulating intellectual life and rich cultural environment. Accepts only graduate students.

St Catherine's College

St Catherine's College

St Catherine's College (referred to informally as 'Catz') has one of the largest graduate intakes of the colleges admitting both undergraduates and graduates, and since its foundation has sought to integrate graduates closely into the academic and social life of the college.

St Cross College

St Cross College

St Cross is Oxford’s most centrally situated graduate college and among its most popular. Accepts only graduate students.

St Edmund Hall

St Edmund Hall

St Edmund Hall is one of the oldest undergraduate teaching institutions in the world, and nowadays also plays host to a vibrant and friendly community of around 300 graduate students.

The dining hall and south building of St Hilda's College.

St Hilda's College

St Hilda’s offers compelling reasons as a choice for graduate students: a commitment to excellence and equality, a stunning riverside location, a welcoming atmosphere, and a wealth of scholarships, grants and facilities. The college’s unique blend of upholding Oxford’s scholarly traditions while fostering a relaxed and accessible environment further distinguishes it as an exceptional institution.

St Hugh's College

St Hugh's College

St Hugh's is renowned for its friendly and informal atmosphere, and this may be linked to the fact that the student community is made up of equal numbers of graduates and undergraduates.

St John's College, front quadrangle

St John's College

St John’s College is proud of its reputation for academic excellence within a vibrant, supportive and socially diverse community.

St Peter's College

St Peter's College

Located in the heart of Oxford, St Peter’s is known for its friendliness, informality, excellent relations between students and staff and strong commitment to diversity and inclusion and student support.

Front Quad, The Queen's College

The Queen's College

The Queen’s College is a close-knit, friendly college located on the High Street in central Oxford. It admits graduate students across a diverse range of specialisms and offers a range of graduate scholarships – both via the University’s central schemes and directly through the college.

Back lawns, Trinity College.

Trinity College

Trinity considers applications for most of the graduate degrees offered by the University and especially welcomes applications in the fields of interest of the college’s fellows.

University College

University College

University College ('Univ') is very proud of its graduate community. The college's graduates are high achievers and many secure highly competitive studentships. They are internationally diverse and make up a large section of the student body.

An Open day at Wadham College

Wadham College

Wadham College has high academic standards and strong traditions in both humanities and sciences, fostered within an informal and progressive atmosphere.

Wolfson College

Wolfson College

Wolfson is a modern and modernist college for graduate students and postdocs. It has been located for over 50 years in a traditional setting positioned on the tranquil banks of the River Cherwell, overlooking its own medieval meadows. Accepts only graduate students.

Worcester College

Worcester College

Worcester College aims to provide a friendly and supportive academic and social environment where every member can thrive.

Wycliffe Hall in snow

Wycliffe Hall

Wycliffe Hall is a centre of excellence for theological study and research, where students are encouraged to grow together both academically and spiritually, within a welcoming and supportive community.

The Oxford skyline through the trees at sunrise

External college: Ripon College Cuddesdon

This Church of England theological college is located in the village of Cuddesdon. Although it is not part of the University, it accepts students for theology and related postgraduate courses.

A view of St Stephen's House

External college: St Stephen's House

This Anglican theological college is located in central Oxford. Although it is not part of the University, it accepts students for theology and related postgraduate courses.

Courses offered by each college

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College life

New College

What is an Oxford college?

The college system is just one of the distinctive features of student life at Oxford. In the context of graduate admissions, ‘college’ and ‘colleges’ refers to all 43 of the University’s colleges, including societies and permanent private halls.

Oxford from Magdalen tower

Living in Oxford

Oxford University doesn’t have a campus—the University and its colleges are spread across the beautiful city of Oxford.

Worcester College

Choosing a college

When you make your graduate application, you can express a preference for one of our colleges, or ask us to find a college for you.