Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
- 3-4 years
- Part-time
- 72 months
- 6-8 years
Start dates & application deadlines
Starting October 2027. Application deadline not specified.
Language
English
TOEFL iBT: 110
IELTS: 7
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
Oxford, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Linguistics
Overview
The DPhil in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at University of Oxford is an advanced research degree, awarded on the basis of a thesis and an oral examination.
Features
- The emphasis in the DPhil is on self-directed learning, with guidance from the supervisor and other faculty.
- You are expected to submit your thesis three, or at most four, years from the date of admission (six, or at most eight, years for part-time students).
Programme Structure
Research
- linguistic theory (morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and their interfaces)
- Indo-European comparative philology (especially Greek, Italic/Latin, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian, Celtic, Slavic and Tocharian)
- phonetics and phonology (especially phonetics/phonology interface, speech perception, language comprehension)
- Romance philology (Research Centre on Romance Linguistics, especially diachronic morphology, syntax of Italo-Romance and phonetics of French)
- neurolinguistics/psycholinguistics
- ancient grammatical thought in the Greco-Roman tradition.
Admission requirements
Academic requirements
GPA: Upper Second Class
English requirements
TOEFL iBT: 110
IELTS: 7
General requirements
As a minimum, applicants should hold or be predicted to achieve the following UK qualifications or their equivalent:
- a master's degree in a relevant subject with a very good result or a result close to distinction level; and
- a first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours in a relevant subject.
Tuition Fees
- International: 70,377 AUD / year (≈ 37,080 GBP / year)
- Domestic: 26,913 AUD / year (≈ 14,180 GBP / year)
Living costs
Oxford, United Kingdom: 1,782-2,904 AUD / month