If you wish to be a graduate student at the University of Oxford, you must become a member of a college as well as being accepted by the Saïd Business School. Colleges are responsible for your well-being while you are at Oxford and they provide meals, common rooms, libraries, sporting and social facilities, as well as pastoral care for students. Some colleges also offer postgraduate accommodation, although it is not always guaranteed.
Each college has a Middle Common Room (MCR) which serves as the focal point for all graduate activity in the college. The MCR often gets involved in the organisation of sporting and social events – which range from video nights to punting parties, and from football to rowing.
Many graduate students find their college membership a rewarding aspect of their life in Oxford, offering opportunities to socialise with graduate students across a range of disciplines, as well as with undergraduates and fellows of the college; and providing access to a wide range of extra-curricular activities. In most colleges there are also a number of staff who are particularly concerned with pastoral support and guidance for graduate students.
All University of Oxford graduate applicants are forwarded to a college for consideration after they have been offered a place on a programme of study. If you have been offered a place we will contact you and request your college preference at that time. If you do not have a preferred college, an automated system will assign your application to a college for consideration.
The following colleges consider MSc in Financial Economics students, for further details about their facilities please consult our Oxford college guide.
- Balliol College
- Brasenose College
- Campion Hall
- Christ Church
- Exeter College
- Green Templeton College
- Jesus College
- Keble College
- Kellogg College
- Lady Margaret Hall
- Linacre College
- Lincoln College
- Magdalen College
- Mansfield College
- Merton College
- Oriel College
- Pembroke College
- St Catherine's College
- St Cross College
- St Edmund Hall
- St Hilda's College
- St Hugh's College
- St Peter's College
- Trinity College
- Wadham College
- Wolfson College
If you are accepted onto the programme of study to which you have applied, you are guaranteed a place at a college or permanent private hall but you should be aware that this may not necessarily be your first choice. Some colleges are very over subscribed and applicants who have nominated such a college may be allocated a place at another college by the University.
We recommend that you apply as early as possible, as we are unable to guarantee places on the course later in the year. It is also more difficult to secure accommodation in college in the later stages.