Postgrad degrees?

So I'm doing Combined Honours in Arts (English Literature, German and Economics) at Durham, is it possible to do a postgraduate degree in English Literature at Oxford/Cambridge if I haven't purely studied English Lit at undergrad level?
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I take it a MSt is not as respected as an MPhil? (Thanks for the help hobnob, I repped you for't )

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Well, actually it's just different names, but they're both pretty much the same thing: what the AHRC defines as "research preparation masters" - one-year taught courses that are meant to prepare you for a postgraduate research degree (DPhil or PhD). If you don't want to do a DPhil/PhD afterwards, there are also MLitt courses (conveniently called the same at both universities), which are sort of halfway in between: they're two-year research degrees at the end of which you have to write a thesis that's a bit shorter than the DPhil/PhD thesis. However, as the MLitt is a research degree, I'm fairly sure the universities would nevertheless ask you to do an MSt/MPhil as well, to make sure you've acquired the relevant research techniques or something like that.

I thought an MSt was more like an MA at most universities (excluding Oxford/Cambridge and the other UK ancients). It is quite common in the arts and social sciences for you to have to do a masters before being allowed on a PhD programme, Oxford is not unusual in this requirement.

Also I'm positive that an MSc at another university qualifies you to apply for a DPhil.

I thought an MSt was more like an MA at most universities (excluding Oxford/Cambridge and the other UK ancients). It is quite common in the arts and social sciences for you to have to do a masters before being allowed on a PhD programme, Oxford is not unusual in this requirement.

The Cambridge MPhil is an odd beast in that it can be 1 or 2 years long and taught or research, whereas at most universities it is 2 years by research only. Again the MLitt is an unusual degree in that in England it is a research degree, but in Scotland it is being standardised as a taught degree. This all stems from the fact that all the ancients offer an MA either directly at undergraduate level or at some time afterwards without further examination and so these universities need to have seperate master's degrees for those pursuing further study. This factor puts them out of kilter with the rest of the higher education system which is simply BA, MA, MPhil/MLitt, PhD/DPhil.

In science we have undergraduate masters degrees that allow you to enter PhD programmes directly (unlike the ancient MA) so that just makes it even more confusing!

Seeing as though there is no central admissions process, is it possible to apply to both Oxford and Cambridge for a masters degree?

Is it as difficult to get into Oxbridge for postgrad as it is for undergrad or is it generally less competitive?

Not as difficult, but still competitive.