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Postgraduate Study

University College has a large and vibrant graduate community right at the heart of the College. Our current graduates (some 200 students reading for taught Master’s, Master’s by research, and research degrees) come from more than 35 countries. They study a broad range of subjects, each of which represents a priority area for the College and is supported by a number of academics.

Oxford’s graduate students are among the best in the world. University College is committed to fostering a coherent and well-integrated international community of scholars, offering them high-quality accommodation, in many cases throughout the duration of their course.

Univ offers a large number of scholarships to graduates, several of which were set up with financial support from individual Old Members or by the College’s active and generous Old Members’ Trust, whereas others represent joint initiatives between the College and various University departments and faculties. We also offer all graduate students book, travel and conference grants.

We have a thriving Middle Common Room. We also have a special induction programme for new graduate students, distinct from that for undergraduates. In addition to a Freshers’ Dinner for graduates at the start of Michaelmas term, graduates are invited to various functions throughout the academic year, such as dinner with members of the Senior Common Room, which brings together graduate students, Fellows, and their guests; and a supervisors-supervisees dinner, at which the College entertains supervisors and their supervisees both from Univ and from other colleges.

All of our graduates have College Advisers, working in the same or similar area of study, with whom they can discuss academic progress and any academic or practical problems that they may encounter. Each student meets with the Master, the Dean of Graduates and their Adviser at least once each year for an Academic Review.

Our graduates are invited to College-based research presentations throughout the academic year and are given the opportunity to talk about their work to senior and junior members of the College at events organised in the Master’s Lodgings.