University of Oxford

Degrees

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This map illustrates where many of our current students are conducting their  research across the globe and the full range of topics that they have selected.

A full list of current option courses can be seen here:

A list of postgraduate degrees sorted by institute:

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

• Medical Anthropology

  The one-year M.Sc. degree combines social and bio-anthropological approaches to the study of health and healing in diverse societies and cultures. The two-year M.Phil degree consolidates this knowledge through intensive training in anthropological research methods.

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• Social Anthropology

  There are three master’s courses in Social Anthropology: the nine-month M.St., the one-year M.Sc. and the two-year M.Phil. These share a common foundational period of nine months’ course work in the first year. These courses are open to any well-qualified graduate, even people with no prior qualification in anthropology.

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• Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

  The MSc/MPhil programme in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology consolidates long-standing graduate degree programmes in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (MAME) and Visual Anthropology (VA), recognizing the intellectual and empirical links between these areas of anthropological enquiry.

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• Migration Studies

  The MSc in Migration Studies is a 9-month interdisciplinary degree offered jointly by the School of Anthropology and the Department for International Development.

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• Research Degrees

  Students are admitted either as Probationer Research Students (PRS) or as full D.Phil. students, the latter usually only after the successful completion of a relevant Masters programme, such as the M.Phil. in Social Anthropology, Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Medical Anthropology.

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Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology

• MSc in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology

  This programme in “Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology” explores human thought, behaviour, and culture from the perspectives of the evolutionary and cognitive sciences.

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• DPhil in Anthropology

  ICEA has developed a new postgraduate degree in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, leading to the School of Anthropology’s D.Phil. in Anthropology programme.

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• Admissions

  Application process, funding and frequently asked questions.

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