Overview

About this Degree

Biology is an exciting and rapidly developing subject area with great relevance to addressing global challenges from disease and poverty to biodiversity loss and climate change. This expansion has been accompanied by a blurring of the distinctions between disciplines: a biologist with an interest in tropical plants may well use many of the tools and techniques that are indispensable to a molecular geneticist.

The modular structure of the Biology course offered at the University of Oxford encourages a cross-disciplinary approach. The options system in the second and third years allows students to study either a general background encompassing a comprehensive range of topics, or specialise in detailed aspects of animals, plants, cells or ecology.

Careers

While more than a third of Oxford biology graduates go on to further study such as a research doctorate or postgraduate course in an applied field, over half embark on a professional career after graduating in areas as diverse as conservation, industry, finance, medicine, media, teaching or the law.

Hannah, now a research assistant at the Royal Veterinary College, reports: ‘My degree gave me a keen interest in my subject and the skills to pursue it. So far I have tracked rhinos across deserts, chased birds across oceans, and am currently working with chickens!’ After graduation, Jenny spent several years in a medical communication agency environment and now has her own business, working directly with major global pharmaceutical companies.

Programme Structure

Courses included:

Diversity of life

How to build a phenotype

Ecology and evolution

Genomes and molecular biology

Cell and developmental biology

Behaviour and physiology of organisms

Ecology and evolution

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-10-11 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-15 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

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110

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PTE Academic

76

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IELTS

7.5

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Credits

360 alternative credits

360 - 480

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Oxford, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

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110

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PTE Academic

76

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IELTS

7.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

A-levels: A*AA –Biology is required and the A* must be in a science or Mathematics (see the full list of subjects in which an A* grade will be acceptable)

Advanced Highers: AA/AAB

IB: 39 (including core points) with 7 in HL Mathematics or a science

Candidates are required to have Biology and either Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics to A-level, Advanced Higher, Higher Level in the IB or another equivalent.

Tuition Fees

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59260 GBP / year

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9535 GBP / year

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Living costs

Oxford

United Kingdom

939 - 1530 GBP / month

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