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University of Oxford, Pawel-Sytniewski
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Oxford Graduate Application 2012/13

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Reply 3500
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Original post by sj27
I assume Corinna was basing her statement on the way the universities define it, i.e. they classify students as either UK/EU or international.


They actually differentiate very much between national students (citizens) and EU students. EU students have to pay a lot more, naturally.
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Reply 3501
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Original post by Noldorin
They actually differentiate very much between national students (citizens) and EU students. EU students have to pay a lot more, naturally.


Strangely enough, all of the courses i've looked at - except the ones where they charge the same flat fee for everyone irrespective of origin - charge the same fee for UK and EU students, and a higher one for "international". I read somewhe else that this is usual and is something to do with the EU treaty.

In fact, if you look at the Oxford page on fees, they confirm that home and EU students pay the same fees:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/feesandfunding/fees/information/feestatus/
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Original post by Noldorin
They actually differentiate very much between national students (citizens) and EU students. EU students have to pay a lot more, naturally.


This is wrong. UK and EU pay the same, and "overseas" pay a lot more.
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Original post by sj27
Strangely enough, all of the courses i've looked at - except the ones where they charge the same flat fee for everyone irrespective of origin - charge the same fee for UK and EU students, and a higher one for "international". I read somewhe else that this is usual and is something to do with the EU treaty.

In fact, if you look at the Oxford page on fees, they confirm that home and EU students pay the same fees:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/feesandfunding/fees/information/feestatus/

Yeah, you're right it's not just the UK that does this. Universities in all EU countries have to treat students from member states the same for fee purposes. For that reason lots of students from England are applying to the Republic of Ireland (and other countries) as they are treated as home students and pay lower fees than they would in the UK.
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Repeating some of the above, but just to clarify, under EU law a member state must set the same level of University tuition fees for the students of all members. Not only that but they must make the same provision for paying for these fees - so EU students are entitled to tuition fee loans in England and to free tuition in Scotland.

It works the other way around. UK students may study in other member states' Universities on the same terms and at the same cost as their own students pay.
Has anyone, (January applicants especially), heard from Worcester College? Thanks!
Original post by GabrielleT
Mmm try going to school in a snowstorm or when it's -35! (It happens all the time in Canada, especially in January or February, and we have snow until at least April.) Having dug in Greece at 40-45 degrees and experienced Canadian weather, I am looking forward the mild winter and the beautiful spring that the UK gets!!! It seems like a good middle-ground to me. But hey, maybe I am just too positive and I idealize Oxford too much! :wink:


For fairness sake, I must say that Vancouver is in Canada, yet it hardly sees any snow at all. The winter is similar to UK, only more rain (if you can imagine), the summer is exactly the same.

Montreal and Toronto, indeed, are buried under the snow every winter and it gets really cold.
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Original post by janjanmmm
For fairness sake, I must say that Vancouver is in Canada, yet it hardly sees any snow at all. The winter is similar to UK, only more rain (if you can imagine), the summer is exactly the same.

Montreal and Toronto, indeed, are buried under the snow every winter and it gets really cold.


Yes, you are quite right! I should have mentioned that I was talking about where I live, Montreal, and where I am from, Quebec city.
Hi everyone! Long time no update!

I got an offer for the MST in Medieval Literature and got a place at St. Peter's College

However I got no funding. And york have offered me an AHRC master's grant So I'm going to reject Oxford, which is kind of gutting, but que sera sera. All the best to everyone else
Original post by Aeschylus
Hi everyone! Long time no update!

I got an offer for the MST in Medieval Literature and got a place at St. Peter's College

However I got no funding. And york have offered me an AHRC master's grant So I'm going to reject Oxford, which is kind of gutting, but que sera sera. All the best to everyone else


congratulations on your funding! If you are interested in continuing for a PhD, I believe you are making the right choice. A funded offer from a great uni is much more impressive than an offer from Oxford.
Original post by Aeschylus
Hi everyone! Long time no update!

I got an offer for the MST in Medieval Literature and got a place at St. Peter's College

However I got no funding. And york have offered me an AHRC master's grant So I'm going to reject Oxford, which is kind of gutting, but que sera sera. All the best to everyone else


Congrats bro, AHRC scholarships are ridiculously hard to come by.
Original post by The Lyceum
Congrats bro, AHRC scholarships are ridiculously hard to come by.


thanks mate means a lot coming from you
Original post by *Corinna*
congratulations on your funding! If you are interested in continuing for a PhD, I believe you are making the right choice. A funded offer from a great uni is much more impressive than an offer from Oxford.


Cheers. A PhD is one of my cards on the table :smile:
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Original post by sj27
Strangely enough, all of the courses i've looked at - except the ones where they charge the same flat fee for everyone irrespective of origin - charge the same fee for UK and EU students, and a higher one for "international". I read somewhe else that this is usual and is something to do with the EU treaty.

In fact, if you look at the Oxford page on fees, they confirm that home and EU students pay the same fees:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/feesandfunding/fees/information/feestatus/


Yep, EU law guarantees this it seems. I should have been clearer originally; at least in the undergraduate case it is the foreign governments of EU nations that heavily subsidise tuition fees for their students coming to the UK...
Hi, I am starting an MSt at Oxford University soon and was wondering if there will be some sort of reading week around november, or if the terms are too short for anything like that.
Am about to start a postgrad degree at Ox but still haven't got a college letter... :frown: does this mean I will probably get into an inconvenient/unattractive college?
I'm dying to know where I will have to live next year. Also, do colleges provide cleaners for our rooms? Back in the day I remember my cousin telling me that she had a cleaner do her bed everyday at Oxford (Pembroke college) ...
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smh30
.... Oxford is a collegiate system so in fact we do say "college"
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smh30
Ps to the op - graduates often receive their college offers late - so don't worry. It doesn't mean you'll end up in a "less desirable college". I think I remember getting mine around July when I was accepted for my MSc there.
Original post by Harry Styles
Are you American? Here we don't say "College" we say "University"



Original post by smh30
.... Oxford is a collegiate system so in fact we do say "college"


SLAMMED
there is no reading week, no. but terms are only 8 weeks long

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