Selection Criteria

Graduate Admissions: Selection Criteria at Christ Church

Applicants must first have been accepted by a Department of 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:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/postgraduate_courses/college_guide/index.html

Applicants should note that any offer of a place will be subject to satisfactory financial evidence that they can meet the tuition and living costs for the duration of their course. Please consult this guidance for more details:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/feesandfunding/fees/financialguarantee/

Christ Church 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 will be taken into account. The possession of competitively-won funding may be taken into account as an indicator of the applicant’s academic merit and potential. It may not be possible to make offers to applicants whose applications are received late in the admissions round, when places are full.

Subject to the primary criterion outlined above, preference may be given to applicants who meet one or more of the following secondary criteria:
(i) Those whose area of study overlaps with the academic interests of the college’s academic staff.
(ii) Current or past students of the college.
(iii) Those who are considered likely to contribute significantly to the wider life of the college community.

Applications are usually considered by academic staff in the relevant subject area, the Tutor for Graduates and the Dean.

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 Graduates and the Dean.

June 2011