How to apply The University requires candidates to apply online and for their referees to submit online references.

To access the online application system, which is hosted by Embark on behalf of the University, please visitwww.graduate.ox.ac.uk/applyonline Paper applications are only acceptable in exceptional cases where it is not possible for you to apply online. Applicants who have an exceptional need to use a paper application form should use the instructions and form available in our Guidance for paper applications. The online application system comprises:

six pages of questions, which will require you to input essential data about your application further pages allowing you to upload supporting materials for your application a reference system requiring you to register your referees' e-mail address and other details, which then allows your referees to log in to the system and submit online references an Application Inspector to check that you have answered all mandatory questions a declaration for you to read and confirm regarding the information and documentation provided in your application

If you have technical difficulties or queries regarding the application, you should request support from the Embark Support Centre at embarksupport.zendesk.com A range of assistive measures are in place to support applications from students with disabilities; for example, a paper application will be accepted where necessitated by an applicants disability. Further information on this support is available under Disability Support. For current taught Oxford graduate students applying for readmission to a doctoral programme only For full information about your eligibility for this process and additional guidance on the readmission procedure, please see the supplementary information in Guidance for continuing Oxford graduates Readmission students use a tailored version of the Embark form which does not require payment details. After logging in to Embark, candidates should choose to Proceed to Readmission Form. If you log in with the same e-mail address and password as you used in making your last online application to Oxford, some information will be pre-populated for you; you may also create a new account if you wish.

When to apply Each programme of study may use one or multiple application deadlines. If a programme has more than one deadline listed in the Course Guide, you may apply to any of these; applicants to earlier deadlines will receive earlier decision outcomes. Please check the Course Guide to see which application deadlines are available for your chosen programme of study and submit your complete application and all required supporting material as early as possible, preferably at least two weeks in advance of the deadline date. Standard application deadlines for entry in October 2013 Application Deadline Date 1 Friday 16 November 2012 2 Friday 4 January 2013 or Friday 18 January 2013 3 Friday 8 March 2013

Please note that not every programme will use more than one of the deadlines above and that there may be other deadlines in use for specific sources of funding or other processes. The January deadlines are the deadlines for the majority of scholarships offered by the University and its departments and colleges. You must apply by the relevant January deadline both for the scholarships where all eligible candidates are automatically considered - for example, UK Research Council funding - and for the scholarships which have a tick box on the application form, as detailed in the section 'About your funding' below. Please note that there are also other scholarships which require that you specifically apply to them and they may have a range of deadlines; you should check the deadlines for any funding you intend to apply for carefully. If you are intending to apply for a visa for a programme commencing in October, you should aim to apply by the relevant January deadline. Applications and other materials must be successfully submitted online by 23:59 GMT on the deadline date. Any materials sent via post must be received by the Graduate Admissions Office by the end of the working day, 17:00 GMT, on the deadline date; the date of posting is not taken into account. Application deadlines are strictly enforced. Your application and all supporting materials, including references, must be received by the deadline. About you YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS Your name will form the basis of your applicant record, so please ensure it is full and accurate. If you hold a passport or other official document, you should state your name exactly as it is printed there; this will be critical if you need to apply for a student visa.

If you contact us separately to your application, please provide your name in the same format used in your application, so that we can match all enquiries and materials to the correct record. YOUR CONTACT DETAILS If your contact details change at any time during the admissions process, you must notify us via the online query system so that we can update our records. The University will need to contact you throughout the admissions process. NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP Please include all countries that you currently have nationality of. If you are NOT a national of an EEA country (including UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man) or Switzerland, please provide details of the passport that you intend to use to enter the UK. ETHNICITY MONITORING The University is required under statute to seek and return information about the ethnic background of all its applicants for HESA (the British Governments Higher Education Statistics Agency). The information provided is used to monitor rates of participation in Higher Education by particular groups of people and will not form part of any assessment of your application. DISABILITY SUPPORT All admissions decisions are taken based on your academic performance and potential in relation to your chosen programme of study. The University is committed to making reasonable adjustments to enable students with disabilities or long-term health conditions - including specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, Asperger Syndrome and mental health difficulties - to apply for study at Oxford and participate fully in student life. Please see our Guidance for applicants with disabilities for more detailed information about how the University can support students with disabilities during the application process. If you have a disability for which you usually have special accommodation requirements, we very strongly encourage you to disclose it in the About You section of the application form. We also encourage you to apply by the relevant January deadline where possible as early notice will help us to support you in the college admissions process in the case that your application is successful and college accommodation tends to fill up as the year progresses. Please note, however, that no candidate is guaranteed college or university accommodation. If you wish to discuss this section of the application form, or anything to do with University provision for such needs, please contact the Disability Advisory Service:

Tel. +44 (0) 1865 280459 Fax. +44 (0) 1865 280300 e-mail disability@admin.ox.ac.uk Website www.ox.ac.uk/students/shw/das NOMINATED THIRD PARTY You may use the application form to nominate a third party, such as a relative, for the purposes of handling your confidential data. We will not discuss your application with anyone other than you unless you nominate a representative in this section. Please note that anyone you appoint will then be able to give us instructions relating to your application. CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS To help the University reduce the risk of harm or injury to students and staff caused by any criminal behaviour of students, we must know about any relevant convictions that you may have. For full information on which convictions should be declared and how the data you provide will be used, please see our page on Criminal convictions. AGENTS The University does not have any financial, co-operative or other arrangements or relationship with agents who assist in the preparation and submission of graduate applications for a fee. All applicants are required to complete and submit their own application and must provide their own personal details. All of the information necessary to complete an application to any graduate course is available via the Graduate Admissions website, Fees and Funding website and departmental websites. Your course and college preference Important supplementary guidance is available on this topic for paper applications COURSE CHOICE The online form requires you to select from a list of available graduate study options at Oxford by searching a keyword. If the course you wish to apply to is not listed as an available option, it may use a separate application process, i.e. MBA, or it may have closed to applications. Please see the Course Guide for details of application deadlines. If you want to apply for more than one programme, you will need to submit separate applications, along with full supporting materials, and pay the application fee for each. Full details of the procedure for starting a second online application are available in the 'Instructions' section of the online application form

You will not be able to amend your programme choice after you have applied, so please check this carefully before submitting your application. FULL-TIME OR PART-TIME STUDY If you wish to apply for part-time study, you must:

Check whether your programme supports a part-time option; this information can be found in the Course Guide Either (i) indicate that you do not have any college preference or (ii) select your preferred college before selecting the full/part-time option, as not all colleges will accept part-time applicants

START TERM You may only select the mandatory start date for your programme in the online form. If you wish to apply for an alternative start date - i.e. other than October 2013 - for a research programme, you should contact the department in the first instance regarding whether this could be supported. Start dates for taught courses cannot be changed. COLLEGE PREFERENCE All of Oxford's matriculated students are members of a college or Permanent Private Hall (hereafter referred to jointly as 'colleges'). Not all colleges accept students on every course; when you select your course, the online form will only display the colleges that do consider applicants to that particular course as available options. The Department for Continuing Education offers some non-matriculated courses that do not confer membership of an Oxford college. If you are applying to one of these courses, the only option available to you in the online form will be to indicate that you do not require a college place. In the form, you may either (i) indicate that you have no preference, in which case a college will be selected on your behalf, or (ii) state a college preference. You will not be able to amend your preference after you apply, so please make sure that you are happy with what you have indicated on the form before submitting the application. Whether or not you state a college preference will not affect how your department assesses your application and ultimately whether or not they decide to make you an offer. If you do indicate a college preference, any further applications you submit must indicate the same preference, unless that college does not accept applications to the other programme(s) you apply to.

If you indicate that you do not have a college preference, you will not be placed at Campion Hall, St Benets Hall or Blackfriars, as these colleges have specific entry criteria. If you are offered a place on a course by a department or faculty then you will be guaranteed a place at a college or hall. Please note, however, that this may not necessarily be your preferred college. For current Oxford undergraduate and graduate students only If you wish to stay at your current college, you must indicate this college as your preferred college on the application form. You should first check that they accept applications for the programme you are applying to. If they do not normally accept applications for the programme, you should contact your college office to discuss whether an exception is possible. IIf your college indicates that they would be willing to consider your application under these circumstances, or if you are currently a Fellow of All Souls College, please contact Graduate Admissions for further assistance with completing the admissions process. APPLYING FOR SCHOLARSHIPS AT OTHER COLLEGES Almost all college scholarship schemes do not require that you indicate that particular college as your preference on your application form, unless clearly stated otherwise in the scholarship requirements. If you wish to stay at your current college but you are applying for scholarships for other colleges then you should select your current college in the form, unless you are applying for a scholarship which requires you to indicate a different college preference. If you specify an alternative preferred college for any reason and you are unsuccessful, your application will enter the same college allocation process as external applications and will not be routed back to your current college. About your qualifications Please ensure that you include details of all qualifications gained at degree (i.e. university) level and above, and do not provide details or documentation of your primary or secondary education. Prospective applicants for graduate study at Oxford should usually have at least an upper second-class - or for some programmes, first class - UK Bachelors degree with honours or equivalent, e.g. 3.5 GPA in the US system (3.8 for first class); please consult the Course Guide for further information about the eligibility requirements for each course. If you are an international applicant and you would like to know how your degree compares with a UK equivalent, you may contact the UK National Academic Recognition Information Centre (UK-NARIC) for advice. However, you do not need to convert your qualification into the UK system or provide a statement of comparability from NARIC in order to apply; as long as you select a qualification from the available options with (EU) or (Overseas) in the title, as appropriate, you will be able to enter the result without reference to the UK grading system.

Your language skills and admissions tests English is the language of instruction and assessment for all programmes offered at Oxford and it is mandatory that all theses or examination papers are written in English. Full details regarding which students may need to submit a language test, which may include those who have studied in or are permanent residents of the UK and other EU countries, are available in our Guidance for international students. Where required, evidence of English proficiency needs to be in the form of a certificate of an English language test taken within two years of the date your programme will commence. The University only recognises certain English tests details of these tests and the standard and higher level score requirements in each are available in ourGuidance for international students Please do not enter IELTS, TOEFL CPE or CAE information if you have not yet obtained test results. If you do not have test results at the time of applying, you should send them on as soon as these are available to you. If you are later offered a place, the University will verify all IELTS and TOEFL results online; if you have uploaded a CPE or CAE, you will be asked to supply the original document as results cannot be verified online. Please do not post your certificate to the Graduate Admissions office unless we request this from you. LANGUAGE TEST WAIVER The requirement to provide proof of English language proficiency may be waived, at the discretion of the University, in cases where you have successfully completed, or are currently completing, a full-time degree-level course of a minimum of nine months at a recognised institution where the medium of instruction and assessment is entirely in English. Full details of the circumstances in which you may be able to successfully apply for a waiver are available via ourGuidance for international students. If you wish to apply for a waiver of the English test requirement, please upload or attach a letter with your application outlining the reasons why you should be exempted from the requirement. You must do this at the time of your application. Please do not use the English Language Test results section to do this. For current Oxford graduate taught students only See also Guidance for continuing Oxford graduates Continuing graduate students do not need to provide IELTS/TOEFL results or other evidence of English language proficiency in this section on the readmission form. About your funding You must complete this section either by listing the main sources of funding you are most likely to use to fund your tuition fees, college fees and living expenses in the event that you are

not offered a scholarship by the University, or by indicating with the tick box that you have not yet made any funding arrangements. Please do not include here details of University scholarships and departmental studentships which you will apply for in the following sections. The information you provide in this section will not affect your eligibility for scholarship funding offered by the University, its colleges and departments. You should enter the amount of funding in this section for one year of study, or for the duration of your programme if less than one year. For a personalised estimate of the amount of funding you will need per year to cover your university fees, college fees and living costs, you should use the Fees, Funding and Scholarship Search. This will also provide you with valuable information on sources of funding from the University and its colleges and departments for which you may be eligible. For a more general overview of fees, costs and funding at Oxford, please consult the Fees and Funding website. DOCUMENTING YOUR FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS If you receive an offer of a place, your college will require you to complete a College Financial Guarantee form providing evidence that you have sufficient funding to cover your fees and living expenses for the duration of your programme; for some part-time non-matriculated courses, the Department for Continuing Education may also require you to provide satisfactory evidence of funding arrangements. Oxford scholarship applications This section of the form allows you to apply for two types of funding departmental studentships and University-wide scholarships. How to apply for a departmental scholarship A departmental studentship is a specific type of funding offered by an academic department, particularly in the Sciences, which requires you to apply by entering a reference code in this section of the application form. Studentships will be advertised, along with their reference codes, on departmental websites. You should also check the closing date for the studentship to ensure that you submit your application form on time. How to apply for University-wide scholarships University-wide scholarships are not department-specific and offer funding in a wide range of subjects to candidates from countries all over the world.

Ensure that you are eligible for the scholarship by reading the relevant scholarship profile on the University-wide scholarships webpage Apply no later than the January deadline for your course

On the application form, tick the box next to the scholarship that you wish to be considered for - if the scholarship is marked with an asterisk (*), you will need to submit additional supporting material together with your application; for further details of this additional supporting material, please consult the relevantscholarship profile

Scholarship applications may be rejected if you do not follow these instructions. Due to the volume of applications received, it is not possible to contact unsuccessful applicants individually or to provide feedback on applications. However, once all awards for a scholarship have been made, the relevant scholarship profile will be updated to reflect this. The University reserves the right to consider any eligible candidates for Oxford scholarships. References Important supplementary guidance is available on this topic for paper applications You will need to ensure, in good time, that your referees are willing and able to write a reference (letter of recommendation) for you. We must receive your references by the application deadline and we will not contact referees on your behalf. You should nominate referees who can provide an informed view of your academic ability and suitability for your chosen programme of study. The University will accept professional references, if these are relevant to the programme of study, but please note that personal references, such as those from family and friends, are not acceptable. If you are a current or recent Masters student, one of your referees should be your supervisor or course director from the Masters programme. If you do not provide a reference of this kind with your application, the department will usually ask you to do so before completing the assessment of your application. INFORMATION FOR REFEREES Full information on the reference process is provided to referees via our Guidance for referees. You should ask your referees to comment on your academic ability and general suitability for the proposed programme of study, and to provide any other information they consider to be relevant to your application. You may wish to supply your referees with the selection criteria for your chosen programme - available via the Course Guide - so that they can comment on your performance against the criteria. If they have knowledge of your recent study, it would be helpful if they could indicate the standard attained. References must be submitted in English, unless otherwise permitted by the department, and on institutional or professional letter-headed paper. If this is not possible - for example, where a referee has retired - the reference should include the referee's contact details and current (or relevant previous) position. Please note that all references must be received by the application deadline. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you register your referees

and/or request references early in the process, in order to ensure that all references are submitted for the relevant deadline. References must be submitted online via the References section of the Embark application form. On Page 5 of the application form (Page 6 in the Readmission form) you must give contact details for your three referees, including their institutional or professional e-mail address. You will be asked to specify the date by which your referees need to submit their references so that they are aware of the application deadline you are using. You must also register your referees' institutional or professional e-mail addresses via the online reference system, as detailed below, which will send your referees an automated e-mail requesting a reference on your behalf. This notification, which will be sent automatically as soon as you register each referee, also comprises essential information and login credentials that will allow your referees to use the online reference system. You must enter your referees details in both locations as the online reference system is separate to the main application form, and we may need to match your references to your central application record using this information. If you are unable to use the online system to register your referees, please contact the Graduate Admissions Office via our online query system for advice, as registration of three referees online is mandatory for all applicants. To register your referees, please click on the "References" button listed on the left-hand side menu:

Please note that you will not be able to see or access your references, but you will be able to track their status by going to the "References" section. You will receive an e-mail notification when a reference has been submitted. You do not need to wait for your online references to be submitted to the online system before you submit your application. Submitted references will continue to be transferred to the Graduate Admissions Office, although please note that both your application and references must still be submitted by the deadline you are applying to. Please note that we are not able to accept references uploaded to the online form - or otherwise transmitted to the Graduate Admissions Office - by the applicant. Any submission must be made by the referee directly. If someone listed on your application form is subsequently unable to act as a referee, you may arrange for another person to act as your referee, as long as that person is also able to comment on your academic performance and suitability for graduate study. You may delete a referee and re-register an alternative in the References section of Embark at any time, provided that the referee to be deleted has not yet submitted their reference. Please note that any new referee must also submit their reference by the deadline.

Supporting materials Please note that all applications require supporting materials to be submitted along with the completed application form. Please read this section of the notes thoroughly and also refer to the Course Guide for programme-specific information. All supporting materials must meet the following criteria:

In English (unless stated otherwise)

Documents you have written yourself - e.g. statement of purpose/research proposal, written work - must be written in English, unless otherwise permitted by the department; an English translation by a third party from your own work in another language is not acceptable unless explicitly permitted by your department. Official documents i.e. transcripts which are not in English should be translated by a professional translator or the relevant issuing body and certified as such on the translation; the official document should be also submitted together with the certified translation.

Easily identifiable

Please clearly indicate your name as well as the type of document, e.g. transcript, on the document if this is not already clearly stated. Please ensure that your name is given on the document in the same format you have given in the application form itself.

Clear and legible

Scanned and digital copies must be accessible and clearly legible; please ensure that scanned files are rotated correctly.

Submitted at the same time as your application form

Wherever possible you should upload an electronic/scanned version of your document(s) COMPULSORY SUPPORTING MATERIAL The following materials are compulsory for all programmes: 1. Three academic references 2. Transcript(s) of previous higher education 3. CV/rsum 4. Statement of purpose/research proposal Applicants may also be required to supply one or more of the following materials with their application, depending on the requirements of the course:

Academic written work Portfolio (e.g. of artwork, performance recordings) GRE results Maths admissions exercise

Please see the relevant page of the Course Guide to check which additional supporting materials your department requires. On each Supporting Materials page, you can upload electronic or scanned copies of your documents directly to the online application form. Adding a name to the document will save the document for later use. There is a size limit of 2MB for each document upload; please ensure that documents meet this requirement and are fully legible. If you are unable to produce a legible scan of 2MB or less, please ensure that your document is submitted to us via the online query system by the deadline you are applying to. It is not necessary to upload a document into every available page on the online form if you are not required to submit the particular type of document requested. If you are offered a place you may be asked to supply original transcripts and test certificates; please do not send original document(s) unless specifically requested to do so. Materials sent to the Graduate Admissions Office will not be returned. Please do not send or upload degree certificates or other documents which are not required to support your application. On each Supporting Materials page, a document may be uploaded from your computer. Adding a name to the document will save the document for later use. Documents saved in this way are visible on the previously uploaded document pull-down list. If you wish to reuse one of the saved documents to submit another online application from your account then you must use the Attach document button, as previously uploaded documents are not automatically attached to applications. Please also note that saved documents are only available for re-use for a few months and will then be automatically deleted.

For current Oxford graduate taught students only See also Guidance for continuing Oxford graduates Oxford Master's students applying to continue to a research programme must supply the full set of required documents as detailed in this section of the Application Guide. However, some departments will allow you to request that the Graduate Admissions Office re-use documents

submitted in support of your previous application to Oxford. Please check the Supporting Materials for Readmission Candidates page to see whether your department is willing to allow you to re-use materials and then indicate which items you would like to be re-used from your most recent application on the final page of the online readmission form. For references, please indicate the names of the referee(s) whose document you would like us to re-use - along with details of any new referees - on page 6 of the form. The documents that you specify for re-use will be added to your central application record by the Graduate Admissions Office once your application is received. All applicants to a research programme should submit a research proposal. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/RESEARCH PROPOSAL All applicants must provide a statement regarding their proposed study/research at Oxford. If you are applying for a taught programme, i.e. any PGDip, PGCert or Masters (incl. BPhil, BCL and MJur) other than the MSt programmes in Legal Research and Socio-Legal Research, you should submit a brief statement around one page in length - explaining your motivation for applying to graduate study at Oxford, in which you may wish to consider the following:

What relevant academic, research, or practical experience do you have? Why are you applying to this particular programme of study? Which areas of study within the subject interest you?

Your department may provide specific guidance on the length and/or content of this statement; if department- or course-specific guidance is provided on the departmental website, you should follow this carefully. If you are applying to a research programme, i.e. DPhil, MSc by research or MSt in research methods, including the MSt in Legal Research, you should supply a statement detailing your research plans, often termed a research proposal. This should be approximately two pages in length, unless the department states otherwise; the level of detail required varies considerably between different subject areas at research level, and you should check the relevant page of the Course Guide and the departments website for further information. For example, if you are applying for research programmes in the humanities and social sciences you will usually be expected to submit a comparatively well-developed proposal, giving an outline of how you intend to structure and undertake your research, and where possible, a preliminary title for the thesis. In other subjects you may only need to provide a short statement indicating which existing research groups you would like to join. If you are applying for a departmental studentship for work on a specific project or research topic, you will only need to indicate this fact in your statement and no other details will be required, unless the studentship advertisement specifies otherwise.

There is no specific word limit for these statements, unless otherwise stated by the department, and there are no restrictions on font size or line spacing, although the document should be clearly legible. The statement must be entirely your own original work except where clearly indicated, i.e. fully-referenced supporting quotations from academic works. Please note that your statement does not count towards any written work that you may have to submit for the purposes of your application. CV/RSUM This should include a summary of your recent achievements, including details of qualifications, publications and any experience relevant to your application. TRANSCRIPT You should submit a detailed record of your higher education up to the present, including programmes of study taken and grades achieved. This should be produced for you as an official document by the institution where you studied, and then visibly and indelibly certified by the issuing institution. If you have not yet completed your undergraduate degree, you should provide an interim transcript detailing grades achieved to date. If you have not yet completed a graduate programme for which you have not undertaken any assessment, you do not need to provide a transcript for that particular qualification. Your institution may require several months to produce this document for you and you should check your institutions policies and procedures well in advance of the Oxford application deadline you are applying to. Documents which are not appropriately certified cannot be accepted as a transcript. Please also note that a degree certificate is not considered a transcript for the purpose of applying to Oxford, as it does not comprise detailed information on your grades. When applying online, you should scan and upload your official paper transcript in the first instance, or an official, visibly certified electronic transcript if this is available to you. Unofficial and/or self-certified transcripts, including printouts/screenshots from student self-service websites, are not acceptable. If your institution offers an official, secure transcript sharing service such as Digitary, you will need to register the Graduate Admissions Office as an authorised recipient with the e-mail address graduate.admissions@admin.ox.ac.uk. The transcript needs to be shared with our office in a manner which allows us to retrieve and verify the full document by the deadline you are applying to. If you are offered a place, you will be asked to send the original document(s) of any scanned or electronic official transcripts you have uploaded.

If your official transcript is not in English, you must submit both (i) the original official document issued by the your institution, and (ii) a translation into English certified by a professional translator or by the issuing body of the original transcript. Current and former Oxford students are not exempted from submitting a valid official transcript. Please see the Student Gateway for details of where to obtain your transcript. WRITTEN WORK Written work is a piece of academic writing, usually an academic essay, which should include referencing and/or a bibliography where appropriate. A single piece of written work should be 2,000 words in length (not including bibliographic references) unless stated otherwise in the Course Guide. Please do not supply documents longer or considerably shorter than the stated requirement as they may not be considered. You may wish to submit a clearly defined extract from a longer piece of work in order to meet the word limit. Applicants to courses in English Literature, History and/or Women's Studies may choose to submit one longer piece of 4,000 words rather than two 2,000-word pieces. Applicants to these courses who would prefer to submit one longer work should upload their 4,000-word essay in the first Written Work page of the form, and on the second Written Work page should type or upload the statement: "I have included one long essay in lieu of the two short essays as permitted by the department." The topic of the written work should relate as closely as possible to the course you are applying to, and where two pieces of written work are required, they should usually be on separate topics. Written work must enable the assessors to make a judgement about your suitability for your chosen programme of study, and it is your responsibility to supply written work of the appropriate type and length. Written work must be entirely your own original work except where clearly indicated, i.e. fullyreferenced supporting quotations from academic works. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY SCORE TEST CERTIFICATE You should upload a scanned copy of the original English language test certificate to your online application. If you do not have test results at the time of applying, you should send them on as soon as these are available to you. If you are applying for a waiver of the proficiency requirement instead of supplying test results, please use the next page ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST WAIVER REQUEST to upload the relevant document. ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST WAIVER REQUEST The requirement to provide proof of English language proficiency may be waived, at the discretion of the University, in cases where you have successfully completed, or are currently

completing, a full-time degree-level course of a minimum of nine months at a recognised institution where the medium of instruction and assessment is entirely in English. Full details of the circumstances in which you may be able to successfully apply for a waiver are available via our Guidance for international students. If you wish to apply for a waiver of the English test requirement, please write a letter outlining the reasons why you should be exempted from the requirement and upload it. You must do this at the time of your application. ADMISSIONS TESTS (GRE, MATHS ADMISSIONS EXERCISE) GRE results are not required to support your application unless specified in the Course Guide, though some departmental websites may request you to supply these results if you do have them. Applicants to the MSc in Mathematical Finance and the MSc in Mathematical and Computational Finance must submit the results of a self-administered Maths Admissions Exercise. There is a separate Admissions Exercise for each of these courses; this exercise must be entirely your own original and unaided work, and you must include the signed declaration. For full details and to download a copy of the relevant test, please see the Mathematical Finance website. Paying the application fee Important supplementary guidance is available on this topic for paper applications The application fee is 50 per programme. You must submit your payment in UK Sterling via the Oxford University Stores website before submitting the application, and payment must be made for each individual application submitted; you will need to purchase the item "Application Fee for Graduate Admissions" via the Product Catalogue, where it is listed under "Graduate Admissions". You will need to enter the purchase order number you receive from the Oxford University Stores into the online application form. Applications cannot be processed before full payment is made and applications which are submitted without a valid payment reference will not be considered. This fee covers the processing of your application and, as we will start processing your application upon receipt of the fee, it is non-refundable. Please note that the application fee will not form any part of the tuition and college fees you will be liable to pay if you are offered and accept a place to study at Oxford. Payment may be made by Mastercard, Visa credit card, Switch, Solo or Delta debit card. If you do not have access to a credit card, some banks are able to offer a disposable credit card voucher which can be used to make online payments. It is also acceptable for a friend or family member to make the payment on your behalf using their card in the online system.

The system will request the applicants name, date of birth, and programme applied for when each payment is made. Applicants from developing countries who do not have access to a bank account and are unable to use a bank card for payment may contact Graduate Admissions for guidance on how to pay the application fee. Readmission form only See also Guidance for continuing Oxford graduates Current Oxford Master's students using the readmission form to apply for a research programme do not need to pay the application fee. In order to submit the readmission application, however, you will need to enter a code from Student Self-Service on the first page of the form. This code is located at the bottom of the Academic Assessment and Information section, under the heading 'Re-admission'. Submitting your application Important supplementary guidance is available on this topic for paper applications The Application Inspector will check that you have provided all mandatory data in the application form before you can submit the application. Please note that the Application Inspector will not assess the content or nature of any documents that you upload or whether you have included all the necessary documentation for an application to your course. You will be requested to check a PDF version of your application before submitting it; you must ensure that all of your documents are present, correct, legible and at the correct rotation. The PDF reflects exactly how your application will come through to the Graduate Admissions Office (with the exception of references, which are transmitted separately via the associated secure online reference system). Applicants will be sent an automated e-mail to confirm their submission. Please note that confirmation of submission is not a confirmation that your application is complete for the purpose of assessment. Once your application has been submitted you cannot replace any attached documentation, or change any details relating to the programme of study, including college preference; therefore, please check very carefully before you submit your application. By submitting an application you are confirming that all of the information provided is, to the best of your knowledge, true, accurate, current and complete and that you will promptly notify the University if any information should change in order to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. You are also confirming that the information contained in your application, including all supporting work, is entirely your own original work, except where clearly

indicated and does not contain any plagiarised elements. You will be required to confirm a declaration with your application to this effect. After submitting your application Your application will not be considered to be complete until all the necessary supporting materials, including references, have been received. It is your responsibility to make sure that any required supporting material not uploaded with your online application or included with your paper application is clearly identified with your full name and programme of study, and is supplied at the earliest opportunity and at the latest by the application deadline. If the form is incorrectly completed, or if required materials have not arrived in the Graduate Admissions Office by the deadline, your application will not normally be assessed. We will endeavour to contact applicants where possible to advise of any problems of this kind, but it is not likely that this will be possible if you submit your application very close to the deadline. Ultimately, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have followed the instructions published to applicants. Completed applications are sent on to the appropriate department for an academic assessment. You will be notified of the outcome of your application by the relevant departments and colleges. The Graduate Admissions Office is not permitted to disclose application outcomes.