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.
Front Quad, Lincoln College in autumn. Credit: Alexandra Dolan / Graduate Photography Competition
About the college
Lincoln College was the first Oxford college to establish a middle common room (MCR). Graduates now form half of the total student body of the college and their strength in numbers ensures a lively and sociable community.
The college is proud of the diversity of its MCR; over 40 per cent of its members are from countries outside the UK/EU and a wide range of subject areas and types of degrees are represented. Graduates participate in the various academic, sporting, musical and dramatic activities organised in college.
Each graduate is assigned a college tutor to act as their advisor. Graduates and fellows are also encouraged to meet informally at regular events where students and tutors give presentations on research in progress, at seminars and debates, at advisors’ lunches, and at High Table.
Lincoln College offers a wide range of generous graduate scholarships, and there is financial support in the form of the Graduate Research Fund and additional funding for college activities.
Key facts
| Students (total*) in 2025-26 | Full-time places in 2027-28 | Part-time places in 2027-28 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taught graduates | 90 | c. 79 | c. 0 |
| Research graduates | 230 | c. 50 | c. 1 |
| Undergraduates | 320 | N/A | N/A |
*Total across all year groups (see source data)
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College tour
Facilities
The college library, housed in a splendidly-converted 18th-century church, has a comprehensive law collection and an important collection of rare books in the Senior Library.
Wi-Fi access is available across the college. Wired network points are available in all student bedrooms.
There are also two dedicated graduate computing rooms.
The college has an excellent choir and the competitive choral scholarships are open to graduate as well as undergraduate students. There are lively drama and music groups, supported by a performance room with grand piano, and an annual arts Festival, co-organised with Jesus and Exeter Colleges. Music practice rooms are available.
The college has a sports pavilion, playing fields, cricket pitch, squash and tennis courts, and student-run teams are available in many sports. Rowing is especially popular and the college boathouse on the Thames has dedicated ergo gym facilities for rowers. All students of the college are currently offered free membership of the University gym and swimming pool.
The college has four study-bedrooms adapted for disabled students; special dietary needs can usually be accommodated in the college's dining hall. The hall, bar and Middle Common Room (MCR) are wheelchair-accessible. Please contact the college about any accessibility requirements.
Lincoln’s Welfare Co-ordinator, Lisa Stokes-King, is always happy to talk to graduate students about any issue, and the college also has an onsite counsellor one day a week, and a nurse.
Lincoln was the first college in Oxford to provide a Middle Common Room (MCR), which is located in the heart of the college, in the Berrow Foundation Building. It has daily newspapers, TV, games console and refreshments. It is a popular meeting place, especially after meals. Partners of graduate students are very welcome to become associate members of the MCR.
Graduates elect their own officers to run the MCR and represent the graduate interest on college committees. The MCR Social Team organises a very full programme of events and activities each term, with the result that Lincoln is widely reputed as having a particularly lively MCR.
Accommodation and meals
Lincoln can usually offer single-person accommodation to the majority of its first-year graduate students and is able to house some continuing students. The college does not have accommodation suitable for couples or families.
Lincoln College has a number of rooms for MCR members, arranged in three complexes of dedicated graduate accommodation in the city centre.
Many rooms have en-suite bathrooms and self-catering facilities are available in all graduate accommodation. Some of this accommodation is available for a letting period covering the three terms of the academic year (37 weeks) with the option to extend into the summer vacation.
High-quality lunches and dinners are available in the college's dining hall throughout the year, and light meals are available in the atmospheric cellar bar ('Deep Hall') during term time. A termly kitchen charge is payable which can be used as credit against meals in the college's dining hall and bar. Halal and kosher meal options are available.
Further information on accommodation at Lincoln College is available on the college website.
Courses
For entry in 2027-28
This college accepts graduate students for the following courses:
- DPhil in Ancient History (full time)
- MPhil in Ancient History (full time)
- MSt in Ancient History (full time)
- MSt in Ancient Philosophy (full time)
- MSc in Applied Digital Health (full time)
- MSc in Applied Financial Economics (part time)
- DPhil in Area Studies (Russia and East Europe) (full time)
- DPhil in Astrophysics (full time)
- DPhil in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics (full time)
- DPhil in Atomic and Laser Physics (full time)
- Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems (EPSRC CDT) (full time)
- Bachelor of Civil Law (full time)
- DPhil in Biochemistry (full time)
- MSc by Research in Biochemistry (full time)
- DPhil in Biochemistry (Skaggs-Oxford Programme) (full time)
- DPhil in Biology (full time)
- MSc by Research in Biology (full time)
- DPhil in Biomedical Sciences (NIH OxCam) (full time)
- BPhil in Philosophy (full time)
- Chemical Synthesis for a Healthy Planet (EPSRC CDT) (full time)
- DPhil in Chemistry (full time)
- MSc by Research in Chemistry (full time)
- DPhil in Classical Archaeology (full time)
- MPhil in Classical Archaeology (full time)
- MSt in Classical Archaeology (full time)
- DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature (full time)
- MSc in Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience (full time)
- DPhil in Clinical Medicine (full time)
- DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences (full time)
- MSc by Research in Clinical Neurosciences (full time)
- MSt in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation (full time)
- DPhil in Condensed Matter Physics (full time)
- DPhil in Criminology (full time)
- MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (full time)
- MPhil in Development Studies (full time)
- Doctor of Medicine (DM) (variable intensity)
- DPhil in Economic and Social History (full time)
- MPhil in Economic and Social History (full time)
- MSc in Economic and Social History (full time)
- DPhil in Economics (full time and part time)
- MPhil in Economics (full time)
- MSc in Economics for Development (full time)
- MPhil in Egyptology (full time)
- MSc in Energy Systems (full time)
- DPhil in Engineering Science (full time)
- MSc by Research in Engineering Science (full time)
- DPhil in English (full time)
- MSt in English (650-1550) (full time)
- MSt in English (1550-1700) (full time)
- MSt in English (1700-1830) (full time)
- MSt in English (1830-1914) (full time)
- MSt in English (1900-present) (full time)
- MSt in English and American Studies (full time)
- DPhil in English Local History (part time)
- MPhil in English Studies (Medieval Period) (full time)
- Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) (part time)
- DPhil in Experimental Psychology (full time)
- MSc by Research in Experimental Psychology (full time)
- MSc in Financial Economics (full time)
- MSc in Genomic Medicine (full time)
- DPhil in Genomic Medicine and Statistics (full time)
- MSt in Global and Imperial History (full time)
- MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy (full time)
- MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology (full time)
- MPhil in Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature (full time)
- MSt in Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature (full time)
- MSc in Health Service Improvement and Evaluation (full time)
- DPhil in History (full time and part time)
- MPhil in History (British and European History 1700-1850) (full time)
- MSt in History (British and European History 1700-1850) (full time and part time)
- MPhil in History (Early Modern History 1500-1700) (full time)
- MSt in History (Early Modern History 1500-1700) (full time and part time)
- MPhil in History (History of War) (full time)
- MSt in History (History of War) (full time)
- MPhil in History (Intellectual History) (full time)
- MSt in History (Intellectual History) (full time)
- MPhil in History (Medieval History) (full time)
- MSt in History (Medieval History) (full time and part time)
- MPhil in History (Modern British History 1850-present) (full time)
- MSt in History (Modern British History 1850-present) (full time and part time)
- MPhil in History (Modern European History 1850-present) (full time)
- MSt in History (Modern European History 1850-Present) (full time)
- MPhil in History (US History) (full time)
- MSt in History (US History) (full time)
- MPhil in History (Women's, Gender and Queer History) (full time)
- MSt in History (Women's, Gender and Queer History) (full time and part time)
- DPhil in History of Art (full time)
- MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture (full time)
- MPhil in History of Science, Medicine and Technology (full time)
- MSc in History of Science, Medicine and Technology (full time)
- MSc in Integrated Immunology (full time)
- Intelligent Earth (UKRI CDT in AI for the Environment) (full time)
- DPhil in Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science (full time and part time)
- DPhil in International Development (full time)
- MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine (full time)
- DPhil in International Relations (full time)
- MPhil in International Relations (full time)
- MPhil in Jewish Studies in the Graeco-Roman Period (full time)
- MSt in Jewish Studies in the Graeco-Roman Period (full time)
- MPhil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (full time)
- MSt in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (full time)
- DPhil in Law (full time)
- MPhil in Law (full time)
- MSc in Law, Governance and Artificial Intelligence (full time)
- MSc in Law and Finance (full time)
- Magister Juris (full time)
- Master of Business Administration (MBA) (full time)
- Master of Public Policy (MPP) (full time)
- DPhil in Materials (full time)
- MSc by Research in Materials (full time)
- MSc in Mathematical and Computational Finance (full time)
- MSc in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (full time)
- MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing (full time)
- MSc in Mathematical Sciences (full time)
- DPhil in Mathematics (full time)
- MSc by Research in Mathematics (full time)
- MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science (full time)
- MSc in Medical Physics with Radiobiology (full time)
- DPhil in Medical Sciences (full time)
- DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages (full time)
- MSt in Medieval Studies (full time)
- MSc in Migration Studies (full time)
- MPhil in Modern Languages (full time)
- MSt in Modern Languages (full time)
- DPhil in Molecular and Cellular Medicine (full time and part time)
- MSc by Research in Molecular and Cellular Medicine (full time and part time)
- DPhil in Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease (full time)
- DPhil in Musculoskeletal Sciences (full time and part time)
- MSc by Research in Musculoskeletal Sciences (full time and part time)
- MSt in Music (Composition) (full time)
- MPhil in Music (Composition) (full time)
- DPhil in Music (Composition) (full time)
- MSt in Music (Musicology) (full time)
- MPhil in Music (Musicology) (full time)
- DPhil in Music (Musicology) (full time)
- MSt in Music (Performance) (full time)
- MPhil in Music (Performance) (full time)
- MSc in Neuroscience (full time)
- DPhil in Neuroscience (1+3) (full time)
- DPhil in Oncology (full time)
- MSc by Research in Oncology (full time)
- Oxford 1+1 MBA Programme (full time)
- DPhil in Paediatrics (full time)
- DPhil in Particle Physics (full time)
- MSc by Research in Pharmacology (full time)
- DPhil in Pharmacology (full time)
- MSt in Philosophical Theology (full time)
- DPhil in Philosophy (full time)
- MSt in Philosophy of Physics (full time)
- MSc by Research in Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (full time)
- DPhil in Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (full time)
- DPhil in Politics (full time)
- MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government) (full time)
- MPhil in Politics (European Politics and Society) (full time)
- MPhil in Politics (Political Theory) (full time)
- DPhil in Population Health (full time)
- DPhil in Psychiatry (full time)
- MSc by Research in Psychiatry (full time)
- DPhil in Public Policy (full time)
- MSc in Radiobiology (full time)
- MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (full time)
- MSc in Russian and East European Studies (full time)
- MPhil in Russian and East European Studies (full time)
- MPhil in Socio-Legal Research (full time)
- DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies (full time and part time)
- MSc in Statistical Science (full time)
- DPhil in Statistics (full time)
- MSc by Research in Statistics (full time)
- DPhil in Surgical Sciences (full time)
- MSc by Research in Surgical Sciences (full time)
- DPhil in Theology and Religion (full time)
- MSc in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (full time)
- DPhil in Theoretical Physics (full time)
- MPhil in Traditional East Asia (full time)
- MPhil in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology (full time)
- MSc in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology (full time)
- MSt in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (full time)
- DPhil in Women's and Reproductive Health (full time and part time)
- MSc by Research in Women's and Reproductive Health (full time)
- MSt in World Literatures in English (full time)
Location
Lincoln College occupies a beautiful historic site in the heart of the city, close to University libraries and departments.
Contact details
For application process enquiries, please refer to our frequently asked questions.