Sitting in the quad at Linacre College
Sitting in the quad at Linacre College
Credit: Ashley Tsai

Graduate admissions statistics

37,593 graduate applications were received for entry in the academic year 2022-23.

Our graduate students represent many countries and cultures, and are from a wide variety of academic and professional backgrounds.

Graduate headline figures

  • 11,413 applications (30.4%) were for graduate research degrees and 26,180 applications (69.6%) were for graduate taught degrees.

  • 28,019 applications (74.5%) were received from candidates with a country of domicile outside of the UK. 3,767 (10.0%) were domiciled in EU countries and 24,252 (64.5%) were domiciled in non-EU countries. 9,574 (25.5%) were domiciled in the United Kingdom.

  • 32,377 individuals applied to one or more graduate programme.

  • The total number of acceptances was 6,057. Of those accepting their offer or a place at Oxford in 2022-23, 2,870 (47.4%) were male and 3,187 (52.6%) acceptances were female.

Graduate admissions statistics for the 2022-23 admission cycle

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