Oxford Postgraduate Offer Holders 2023

Ah cool seems like the 2:1 offer is more common than I realised. We got the motivation to smash our courses cmon!!

Hope you get your college

ah good luck with your English test ooh okay that sounds fun, all the colleges are beautiful, just hope I don't get somewhere super far away from the research hospitals!!

Yeh, mine was a 2:1 for MSc Modelling for Global Health and found that v strange - was really expecting to have to get a first! Do you think the offer is common across all applicants or does the condition of the offer vary based on the strength of an application?

ah welcome hopefully you'll get your formal offer next week if you applied in December

I remember people saying it was based on the strength of your application and your current grade. I applied with a 2:1 equivalent GPA so I guess they can't expect me to boost myself to a first in my final semester...

Also another offer I got didn't even specify a final grade I had to achieve, though that one didn't come with guaranteed funding so that may play a role too.

Yeh, mine was a 2:1 for MSc Modelling for Global Health and found that v strange - was really expecting to have to get a first! Do you think the offer is common across all applicants or does the condition of the offer vary based on the strength of an application?

I remember people saying it was based on the strength of your application and your current grade. I applied with a 2:1 equivalent GPA so I guess they can't expect me to boost myself to a first in my final semester...

Also another offer I got didn't even specify a final grade I had to achieve, though that one didn't come with guaranteed funding so that may play a role too.

I personally think the requirement is a 2:1 for everyone who gets admission because I haven't found anyone who was required to provide a first.

my initial thought was strength of application like, they must really like you and so want to make it easier for you.

but yeah, haven't found anyone offered a first. might be for more popular courses like Medicine maybe?

Given all the courses only require a 2i, I really can't forsee any requiring a 1st - I think it's just a more competitive grade for applicants to have already achieved/ be working at. Potentially for American students or others from systems with a GPA it might be more common but in those systems it's usually hard to swing your GPA massively by final year without really bombing some classes, therefore if you have someone working at the first class equivalent in their penultimate semester it would make sense for that to be the offer as a drop to a 2i equivalent may indicate a number of Cs/ Ds/ Fs in the harder level courses which is not ideal for a potential grad student. Here though I know some universities (my own included), the final year counts for 2/3rds of our final classification meaning there's a lot more potential movement without necessarily anything going massively wrong, you can be working at a great standard throughout your degree but one slightly subpar performance in a final year essay or exam and your solid 1st can easily become a very high 2i (I've even seen drops to a 2ii before by some otherwise exceptional students). I don't think it's like undergraduate where they might give you an offer that's higher than the "typical" one.

My brothers offer for MSc Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing was a first a few years ago and he was pretty adamant that my offer would be conditioned on a first also - he was very surprised

Hi all,


I got an invite to interview for the Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP this morning - not sure what to do, as I have been offered a place on the Clinical Neuro DPhil too. My worry is (of course) about funding, I couldn't complete the DPhil without funding but I'm not sure if having a potential 2nd offer would be better or worse in terms of securing a funded place?


Advice would be lovely <3 Do I do the interview?

Go for it. Do the interview and give it your best shot. Being offered a place doesn't necessarily mean you would be given funding as most funding decisions come out April-ish. It's better to have two scholarships and pick the one you truly love than lose the opportunity to not have either.

And no, doing the interview will not interfere with funding for your current offered course.

Thank you! Have accepted the interview.

Thank you! Have accepted the interview.

Hi! I got an offer for the MSt Greek/Roman History, and I am crying since I opened it because the conditions are pretty much impossible to meet. So, I guess I got an offer from Oxford, and that was the worst thing that happened in my academic career. I just cannot believe my luck, but yay?

Congratulations on your offer! That's already an incredible achievement. If you don't make your conditions just tell everyone you chose to turn down the place, you'll sound cool.