Oxford MPP 23/24 Applicants

Hey guys!

Just wanted to create a thread for all the applicants of Oxford MPP 23/24.

How is everyone else feeling regarding their applications?

I applied.

Amazing! All the best to you 🙂.

What’s your profile like if you don’t mind me asking? I’ve only got 2 years of experience in an executive leadership role so I think that may work out as a negative for me, even though there are other areas in my profile which I believe can cover for it.

Thank you! All the best to you too. I have more than 4 years of experience. I don't think your experience will work out negatively. Which country do you belong to? Did you apply for any scholarships?

Thanks for creating the thread, I only have a couple of years of experience as well but i don't know if i can make up for the lack of experience. Please could you let me know what you mean by other areas that can cover it? FYI I'm a UK applicant

I had some time to review the profiles of the current MPP candidates and there are all quite impressive! In some way, kinda makes me less confident in gaining admission into the BSG MPP program. I am curious to hear about y'all profiles. Here is a summary of mine:

Undergraduate: Low GPA
Postgraduate: Distinction at a Top UK Institution (wanted to make up for my low undergraduate GPA)
Background: Engineering with 4+ years of work experience (Private Sector)

Little to no experience in Public Policy and so trying to use the MPP to pivot into the Public Sector.

I think BSG also gives chances to low GPA/ less experienced students. I also made a little bit research on the students' profiles. It seems, BSG also gives opportunity who demonstrates passion for public services though s/he might not have relevant experiences or a high GPA. Let us be optimistic. Did you apply public policy course to any other universities? I applied to Cambridge and got rejection.

Really? I was actually applying for Cambridge’s MPhill as well. Applications are open till February, have they been processing on a rolling basis?

Unfortunately, I do not have much idea about Cambridge. I applied to the scholarship deadline and got my application feedback a few days back.

I also applied to Cambridge but missed the scholarship deadline. For some reason, I thought it was going to be the same date as the previous year but they moved it much earlier this year and so hoping to outsource external funding if I am accepted. I applied two weeks ago and still no changes. I'm a bit skeptic about Cambridge as the decisions are made on a rolling basis and the later one applies, the lesser the chances of admission.

Hey guys!

Just wanted to create a thread for all the applicants of Oxford MPP 23/24.

How is everyone else feeling regarding their applications?

I applied as well. Just enduring this excruciating wait until decisions (good or bad) are finally released in March haha. I have some consolation in the meantime as I got a Cambridge MPP offer last week. Best of luck to you all!

I applied as well. Just enduring this excruciating wait until decisions (good or bad) are finally released in March haha. I have some consolation in the meantime as I got a Cambridge MPP offer last week. Best of luck to you all!

Hey! Current Oxford MPP student here going through Hilary term. I remember being the person to create the Oxford MPP 2022/23 thread on TSR last year, so I completely empathise with how you all are feeling. I, too, felt the intimidation that came with browsing through previous year student profiles on BSG.

There was a question somewhere above about coming from Pakistan and whether that would make a difference. If you mean whether you'd be at a disadvantage, then you shouldn't worry - BSG does look for diversity in a variety of ways and we have 52 nationalities in our cohort this year.

If you guys have any other MPP-specific or general Oxford questions, feel free to post them - and I'll do my best to get back to you. Bear in mind though that I don't work for Admissions, so won't be assessing your odds of getting an offer/wait list/rejection.

Thank you for your support. Does BSG give full funding from BSG's internal scholarship? I applied to two external funding opportunities. Now curious to know about internal funding.

There are some but not many. It can be very competitive and may be very niche - e.g. there is one for public service and that's a difficult one to get because pretty much every single person who gets an offer is likely to have contributed to public service one way or another. Plus student numbers are growing, this year we had around 140 students and in the past it was 120. I would rely less on internal funding and apply for as many external funding opportunities as you can.