Graduate Entry Medicine at Oxford: 2027 Entry

1. 1

   Sit the UCAT between July and September 2026

   Oxford uses the UCAT as a single common point of comparison. Results from earlier years or other aptitude tests are not considered, and Oxford cannot consider circumstances relating to the UCAT, because sitting it is a declaration that you are fit to test.

2. 2

   Submit UCAS by 6pm on 15 October 2026

   List Oxford with course code A101 (course title BMBCh4). You may name one preferred college, or make an open application.

3. 3

   Complete the Oxford Supplementary Application Form by 6pm on 22 October 2026

   The form opens on 1 September 2026. It asks for two extra referees, at least one familiar with your most recent academic work and neither the same as your UCAS referee. Both references must be submitted through the form by the same deadline.

4. 4

   Shortlisting in November

   Late or incomplete applications are not considered.

5. 5

   Online interviews on 17 and 18 December 2026

   You must be available on the published dates: candidates are not admitted without interview, and interviews cannot be arranged at other times, wherever you live.

Oxford strongly advises completing the references section early, because pressing Request triggers the emails to your referees and they need time to respond. Extenuating circumstances affecting past academic results can be declared on the application platform, with evidence ready on request.

Every shortlisted candidate is interviewed at two colleges, normally with more than one interview: typically two at each college. Interviews are held online on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 December 2026, involving tutors from your chosen or allocated college and clinical tutors. Oxford has not published a more detailed format, such as the length of each interview.

• In the 2025 round, colleges interviewed blind to your college of choice and to your UCAT score.
• After interviews, each college ranked everyone it saw, reviewed its ranking once the second college's rank was disclosed, and submitted a final rank.
• Offers were then provisionally assigned at a particular college, with your chosen or allocated college having priority, and confirmed by college tutors.
• An open offer guarantees a place to study medicine at Oxford, with the college assigned later in the year.

Because interviewers assess you against the published selection criteria, it helps to be ready to discuss the science in your own degree as well as your understanding of medicine. Interview coaching and the interview dates table may help you plan around Oxford's fixed December dates.

Years one and two are designed for graduate entry students and cover medical science and clinical skills, with integrated clinical teaching split equally between hospitals and general practice in year one. Years three and four are shared with the standard six-year course (A100). The course aims to develop clinician scientists and medical leaders, and teaches in a small cohort of approximately 45 students a year within a medical school of about 200 students a year.

• Terms: year one is three ten-week terms, slightly longer than usual Oxford terms; later years run up to about 44 weeks.
• Where: all science teaching in years one and two is in Oxford. Hospital placements include Abingdon, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, Reading and Swindon, and general practice placements are mostly in Oxfordshire.
• Own study: an Academic Special Interest Project across years one and two, a Longitudinal Patient Case, a ten-week elective and special study modules in the final year.
• College life: each student belongs to one of eleven colleges, which provide academic tutorials and pastoral support.

Fees for 2027 entry are £10,050 (home) and £52,360 (overseas) for the pre-clinical first year. Fees for later years are not yet confirmed; as a guide, clinical-year fees for students progressing in 2027 are £10,050 (home) and £69,160 (overseas). Oxford notes that an NHS Bursary can support eligible students in years two to four, and that most graduate entry students take a Student Finance England loan.