This year, we will be hosting our Open Day in an online format on December 8th. The day will include overviews of the graduate admissions process and the DPhil program, as well as an overview of the research we do in Oxford Astrophysics.
More details regarding this, along with projects available for 2026 entry, will be released by the end of October.
Please also note that you are not required to select a final project/supervisor at the point of application. Whilst it is useful for us to know the broad areas you are interested in, we do not expect you to have made a final decision on your preferred projects, and there will be opportunities to discuss your interests before offers are made. Applicants who are invited to interview will have an opportunity to speak to supervisors in more detail about their projects through face to face or online sessions, either as a group or on a one to one basis.
If you have any questions, please contact our Graduate Administrator, Ashling Gordon (ashling.gordon@physics.ox.ac.uk, 01865 273303).
In the meantime, please enjoy this selection of short videos below, which includes a virtual tour of the Oxford Physics department, as well as some words from some of our past and present grad students, and we look forward to seeing you in Oxford!
An astrophysics DPhil with an engineering background (Nijin Thykkathu)
Impressions of a first year DPhil student, modelling planetesimals in the Milky Way (Matthew Hopkins)
Impressions of a first year DPhil student (Rohan Varadaraj)
Impressions from an exoplanets DPhil student (Sophia Vaughan)
My experience as a DPhil student studying astronomical instrumentation (Andrea Hidalgo Valadez)
Studying for a DPhil in galaxy formation and evolution at Oxford (Dominic Dootson)
My impressions of conducting DPhil research on molecular gas in galaxies (Fuheng Liang)
My experience as a DPhil student at Oxford astrophysics (Lucy Oswald)