Graduate Studies

If you come to do graduate work in Oxford, you will be in good company: about sixty people begin graduate work in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature or in Ancient History every year, and a further 15 in Classical Archaeology. You might take a one-year Master's degree (the M.St.) or a two-year Master's degree (the M.Phil.); if you already have a Master's degree, you might begin doctoral work immediately. Or you might prefer to take another undergraduate degree.

Whatever course you choose, Oxford offers top-rate facilities. The Sackler Library is a research library for Classics: specialists come from all over the world to use it. The Bodleian Library, as a copyright library, is automatically offered every book published in Britain, and also takes a vast number of foreign publications. The Classics Centre, on a central site, offers an opportunity to meet other classical graduates socially, together with computing and other facilities; these are also provided by the colleges, which offer a community where you mix with people studying all other subjects. Our Resources pages will tell you more about the facilities available to you in Oxford. For those with appropriate interests, our various Research Projects offer unparalleled collections of material. Find out more about these in the Research section of this website. Graduate applicants in classics are treated as candidates without separate application for various funding opportunities: see Funding

Above all, we offer excellence and diversity. There is no dominant ideology, no cult of 'the way we do it here': faculty members offer a wide range of approaches as well as interests. Whatever you choose to do, our aim is to help you to do it well.

• Graduate Courses in Classics and Ancient History
• Graduate Courses in Classical Archaeology (Archaeology website)
• Graduate Courses in Philosophy (Philosophy website)

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