Cambridge History Postgraduate Applicants 2025 / 26

Hey, good idea! Thanks for starting the thread. I’ve applied for the MPhil in Economic and Social History. For College’s I’ve put Sidney Sussex as my First choice and Downing as my 2nd choice. I originally had Trinity and Jesus but saw the admission statistics and changed them.
Timeline wise my application was submitted on the 17th of October. Still yet to hear back.
Any news on your application?

Hi - saw a thread on Cambridge Postgrad History Applications from a couple years back, so I decided to do the same!
Please share which course you are applying for and what colleges you've also applied to (if you haven't selected an open option).
I'll start. I'm applying for the MPhil in Intellectual History and Political Thought, and applied to Gonville and Caius College and Darwin College.

Has anyone had any movement? I'm not too worried by this, I think we'll now wait until after Jan 4th and the university reopens and expect something around then right?

Has anyone had any movement? I'm not too worried by this, I think we'll now wait until after Jan 4th and the university reopens and expect something around then right?

Has anyone had any movement? I'm not too worried by this, I think we'll now wait until after Jan 4th and the university reopens and expect something around then right?

I only submitted my application on Thursday, so just before the course funding deadline. I don't really expect any movement for a while, and I don't expect to find out if I got accepted or not until the new year.
I hope I do get an offer - the rate of acceptance for my course is about 1 in 3 - compared with some of the other Cambridge History masters, the course is quite competitive. However, I do fancy my odds.

Where does one find the application statistics?

My application just moved to decision pending. Another person that applied for the History PhD in the general megathread said they moved to decision pending yesterday. Might be worth checking the status of your application.

Ah good luck! I'm still under review 🥲

When did you apply? Apparently the department makes offers / rejections around the 6 - 8 week mark of your application being sent in (that's what I got from the megathread)

2nd of December!

Best of luck - hopefully you'll get an update soon! What history strand are you applying for?

I applied for MPhil Modern European History and still on department review. Should this be worrying? It's been well over the 8 weeks review time.