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MPhil - Master of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Full Time
OCT-25
21 months
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MPhil - Master of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Full Time
OCT-25
21 months
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About the course
The MPhil in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics is a taught course offering a range of options for graduates seeking a higher academic qualification in language studies and wishing to specialise in general linguistics (including phonetics but not applied linguistics), in historical and comparative linguistics, or in the linguistics of a specific language.
After the MPhil, students who are readmitted to continue as confirmed DPhil students may submit a DPhil thesis for examination after one, or more typically, two further years of work, and the MPhil thesis may be revised and included as part of the DPhil thesis. In this way, a pathway to the DPhil in little more than three years can be offered.
Assessment
The compulsory paper in linguistic theory will be examined at the end of the first year. Three other exams will take place at the end of the second year. Of these three other exams, one or more can be replaced by a written submission, subject to approval by the Director of Graduate Studies. Exams are three hours in length.
You will also write 25,000-word thesis.
Graduate destinations
Some MPhil students proceed to doctoral work at Oxford; others continue academic study at other institutions. Other career destinations include publishing, secondary and further education, finance, and IT.
As a minimum, applicants should hold or be predicted to achieve the equivalent of the following UK qualifications or their equivalent: a first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours in a relevant subject, for example in modern languages, Classics, computer science, philosophy or mathematics. However, entrance is very competitive and most successful applicants have a first-class degree or the equivalent. While some applicants may have a background in linguistics or philology, few will have taken a full undergraduate course in these subjects. The backgrounds of entering students vary considerably, and the first-year curriculum is designed to bring every student to a general understanding of linguistic research, while not hindering progress in fields of special interest. Students wishing to pursue option C should have studied at least one of their chosen ancient Indo-European languages to degree level (though they need not have studied the linguistics of the language before). Students wishing to pursue option D or paper B vi (History and structure of a language) should have a good grammatical knowledge of the language(s) they wish to pursue. For applicants with a degree from the USA, the minimum GPA sought is 3.5 out of 4.0.
Students living in
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£16,900 per year
Students from Domestic
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£41,250 per year
Students from EU
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£41,250 per year
Students from International
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