St Antony’s College

Graduate Degree Courses

Admissions selection criteria

General criteria

Applicants must first have been accepted by a Department or Faculty of the University of Oxford before any college or permanent private hall may consider them.

Applications are considered for any of the courses in which the College offers admission. Please consult the following list to see these courses: Courses list

Please note that any offer of a place will be subject to satisfactory financial evidence that the applicant can meet the tuition and living costs for the duration of their course. Please consult this guidance for more details: Financial guarantees

Applications are usually considered by the Tutor for Admissions but may also be referred to the Senior Tutor and/or other academic staff. The College aims to admit a certain number of graduate students each year spread across the range of subjects in which it accepts graduate students, and this will determine the number of offers which can be made to applicants. Where there are more applicants than offers which can be made, the relative academic merit and potential of the applicants may be taken into account. It may not be possible to make offers to applicants whose applications are received late in the admissions round, when places are full.

Academic criteria

Preference will normally be given to applicants whose area of study overlaps with the academic interests of the College’s academic staff. At St Antony’s College there is a particular focus on international area studies as the College houses seven regional centres covering Africa, Asia, Europe, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union. The North American Studies programme is currently being established.

Students applying to St Antony’s should normally have a first degree in one of the following subjects: history, politics, international relations, economics, economic history, sociology, philosophy, language and literature, geography, anthropology. Graduates with first degrees in other subjects may also apply if their proposed research relates to the areas of interest in which the College specialises.

The possession of competitively-won funding may be taken into account as an indicator of the applicant’s academic merit and potential.

The final decision on whether to offer a place in the light of the overall competition for graduate places and the spread of those places across subject areas is usually taken by the Tutor for Admissions.

All prospective students should apply to the University online. For more information see the University Graduate Studies Prospectus.