Students will need to organise funding for their University Tuition Fees, College Fees and Living Expenses. Full information on available funding opportunities is available on the University’s Fees and Funding pages.

A DPhil is the same degree as a PhD, only the name is different. Oxford uses the term DPhil and other universities use the term PhD.

The Disability Advisory Service provides information and advice on disability issues at Oxford and facilitates support for students with disabilities. This includes, for example, students with sensory or mobility impairments, long-term health conditions, specific learning difficulties, autistic spectrum conditions or mental health difficulties.

A step-by-step guide to accessing support from the Disability Advisory Service is available. If you would like to make contact with the Service to discuss your support or access requirements while studying at Oxford, you can call 01865 280459 or email disability@admin.ox.ac.uk. 

It is quite common that students are aware of field experts here at Oxford, and choose the University based on the expertise of a staff member. However, if you want to find out more or haven't yet decided on your own specilisation, first refer to the Department Faculty, and from there, you will be able to read the profiles of individual staff members, including publications and research interests.

The University’s library service, the Bodleian Libraries, is world-class. Libraries in the Bodleian Libraries group include the principal University library – the Bodleian – as well as 21 other libraries across Oxford, including major research libraries and faculty, department and institute libraries.

The Bodleian Libraries is the largest academic library service in the UK and one of the largest library services in Europe. Together, the Libraries hold more than 14 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals, and outstanding special collections including rare books and manuscripts, classical papyri, maps, music, art and printed ephemera.

Oxford has a wide range of accommodation, offered by Colleges, the University itself, and by a large number of letting agencies and private leases. Contact the University's accommodation office for more information, or check out your college choices.

The ground and first floors of the Department of Sociology in Park End Street are fully accessible and there is a lift to the first floor. There are wheelchair accessible toilets on both floors. Please contact us for further details. 

Colleges act as a base for the duration of your time as a graduate student. They provide meals, chapels, social events, sporting clubs, and each has its own library (of varying degrees of size and specialism). Several colleges also provide accommodation for graduate students, either for one year, two years and exceptionally, three years. Some colleges offer scholarships for graduate students. You should check their individual college websites for further details.

All graduate students at Sociology are members of the Department and also of a college. You can state a college preference on your application form or, if you have no particular preference, you can let us assign you a college.

Please use the College search tool to explore the colleges that will accept application for your chosen programme. Stating a college preference or letting us assign you a college will not affect how the Department assesses your application and ultimately whether or not we decide to make you an offer. 

If you do receive an offer from the Department then you will also receive an offer from a college or hall, although this might not be the college you stated as your preference if you indicated one.