Next steps
Once you receive the History Faculty’s offer letter you should check carefully whether the quoted academic conditions, if any, attached to your offer are achievable within your current programme, and whether you can comply by the given deadline. As soon as you have done so you should send us a short message indicating your initial acceptance of the offer, and also advising us of any problem you may have with submitting the relevant information by the deadline. Similarly, you should take care to acknowledge promptly the receipt of an offer of a place with a college, so that both Faculty and College have a clear indication that you intend to take up your place. (Please also send us a notification if you later on change your mind.)
Fulfilment of conditions. When offers are conditional on certain academic conditions being fulfilled, it is the responsibility of the candidate to supply evidence as and when these conditions are met, at the latest by the deadline set out in the Faculty’s offer letter. All offers of college places are conditional on applicants being able to supply appropriate financial guarantees. Applicants unable to meet any of these requirements by early September will lose their place and must, if still wishing to attend, reapply for the following year.
International students and
As soon as overseas applicants are in receipt of a confirmed offer notification (i.e., when they have fulfilled their academic and financial conditions of acceptance) our Student Immigration office and the Faculty will prepare also their Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) which they require for their application to the UK Border Agency for a Tier 4 Student Visa. This is an online process which will generate a CAS number of which applicants are notified by e-mail; they will need to quote this number in all their communications with the UK Border Agency when submitting the required documentation for their Visa application. For further details about the process please consult the University's information about Visas and Immigration.
Advance contact with supervisors. All applicants offered places as research students will be told the name of the supervisor assigned to them; if not informed in their offer letters, students may obtain this information from History Graduate Admissions. Students who have accepted offers and fulfilled all conditions and who wish to undertake some preliminary work specifically in relation to their intended dissertations – in the form of background reading, preliminary research or training – may wish to make advance contact with supervisors (most supervisors’ e-mail addresses can be obtained through http://www.ox.ac.uk/contact/). Note however that supervisors may not be able to respond quickly to such enquiries, either because of pressure of teaching commitments during term, or because they are absent on research trips during the vacation. Students are encouraged to let supervisors know the exact date of their arrival in Oxford, when that is clearly established, and to make contact indicating their availability for a meeting promptly after their arrival (again on the understanding that supervisors may not be free to arrange a meeting until the start of term).Programmes
- Research degrees (by thesis only)
- Master of Letters (M.Litt.)
- Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.)