Cambridge Classics MPhil 2026

Congratulations! Me too. Please let us know if you find out anything about other fundings, because I don’t know what they mean by securing other fundings. I know that some colleges offer internal scholarships, but I don’t know if there is anything I can do before being assigned to a college

Do you know if anybody from the MPhil received a funding nomination? I’m curious how many nominations they make for the MPhil in Classics or whether there isn’t such thing as a fixed number of nominations. Anyway, I heard that funding is much harder to secure at master’s level than at PhD (if you’re accepted for a PhD, ofc)

So regarding the funding issue: My possible supervisor told me about 200 people applied and it was really competitive and he told me since my application ranked really high (but not high enough to be nominated for funding by the faculty), and Cambridge funding works in "mysterious ways" I could still have a chance of securing college funding or central University funding.

So regarding the funding issue: My possible supervisor told me about 200 people applied and it was really competitive and he told me since my application ranked really high (but not high enough to be nominated for funding by the faculty), and Cambridge funding works in "mysterious ways" I could still have a chance of securing college funding or central University funding.

How did you find out who your potential supervisor is?

Also, how did you find out your result? Were you contacted by the department or by the PAO? I received an email from the department admissions director and I m not sure whether I should reply to that email or not. He said I should contact him if I have any questions and if I manage to secure some funds from other sources, since “it is sometimes possible to use that fact to leverage other funds.”

I have a small dilemma and I was hoping you could help me with some advice: I received the informal offer from the Department Admissions Office, saying that I have been offered a place, but that unfortunately I was not nominated for any funding; however, they said that getting other scholarships might significantly leverage funding I am not currently nominated for. Today I received another official offer from St Andrews, and I have to give them an answer by 31 March. Cambridge is surely my first option and I really want to study there…is there any way in which maybe holding another offer might influence me receiving funding from Cambridge? I have not yet been assigned to a college - I opted for Trinity and Kings. Do I still have a chance to getting into these colleges if I wasn’t nominated for funding? Like I know they are not the same thing, but maybe if my department didn’t consider I was good enough for funding, these colleges will also not choose me…
I realise I asked different questions at once, but I am really stressed out about this…

So regarding the funding issue: My possible supervisor told me about 200 people applied and it was really competitive and he told me since my application ranked really high (but not high enough to be nominated for funding by the faculty), and Cambridge funding works in "mysterious ways" I could still have a chance of securing college funding or central University funding.

Has anyone gotten their formal offer yet? It has been a while since the informal offers were send out.

I didn't... and my status is still decision pending

I got my official offer on something like 18th Feb. Hope yours all come through soon!! I am a PhD-er: could just be that the Postgrad Admissions people dealt with us as a batch first and will be processing MPhil offers next