Welcome to the Queen’s College undergraduate admissions page. We would be delighted if you were to choose to apply to us if you want to study at Oxford. Queen’s is a friendly and inviting college with a rich cultural mix and somewhere that can open a new world of opportunities to students. As well as a strong emphasis on high quality education the college community offers opportunities to students in a wide variety of areas such as music, sport, theatre and other social events. We also offer a range of scholarships, grants and awards to our students to help financially with their studies. Full details of all this can be found on our webpage, so please feel free to explore our undergraduate admissions pages to learn more about what makes Queen’s special. Information on specific subjects can be found here.
Please download our brochure that gives more information about what it’s like to study and live here.
UCAS Campus Code: J
The application process
The initial stages of the application process are the same at Queen’s as they are at any other college in the University. UCAS applications are due by 6pm (UK time) on 15 October 2025 for 2026 entry. Applicants need to ensure that they have registered for and booked any necessary admissions tests. The deadline to register for Oxford’s own admissions tests is 19 September 2025 (except for the LNAT and the UCAT); the deadline to book Oxford’s own admissions tests is 26 September 2025. The most comprehensive information about applying to the University is available on the central University admissions webpages.
Interviews will take place online in December 2025.
If you are a current applicant and would like step-by-step support with each stage of our admissions process, we recommend that you sign-up for the University’s Choosing Oxford newsletter.
The College supports the University’s policy about the age of candidates for undergraduate admissions, which states:
‘Oxford University welcomes applications from students regardless of their age. However, potential candidates for all courses will be expected to demonstrate a mature approach to the study of their subject, including skills of critical analysis, wide contextual knowledge and the ability to manage their own time effectively. If, for welfare reasons, relating to age or other grounds, a College considers that it is not in the best interests of an individual student to live in College, they will discuss alternative options, if an offer of a place is made.’
The College is happy to consider applications from students regardless of their age. Recognizing that thriving on an undergraduate course requires both intellectual and personal maturity, the College may decide to offer a place for academic reasons, while deferring the entry year until a later date when the College is fully confident in the candidate’s ability to meet the challenges of university study.
For Medicine, the College follows the University policy, i.e. ‘Students must be 18 years of age at the time they start the Medicine course. The clinical contact in our programme starts in the first term and means that younger students would not be able to take part in required elements of the course. For Medicine, your application will not be shortlisted unless you will be at least 18 years old on the 1 November of your first term.’ This requirement brings the Medical School into line with many other top-ranking Medical Schools in the UK and is further explained in the FAQs on the Medical Sciences website.
Finding out your result
We will send out admissions decisions for 2026 entry in January 2026, at the same time as the other colleges. Unfortunately, we are not able to give out application results before this date.
Remember…
Our tutors are looking for academic enthusiasm, capability, and potential. You will be expected to think on your feet; take the interview questions at face-value, ask for help if you need it, speak through your thought process out loud, be honest, and make the most of being given the chance to speak to experts in your subject!
Tutors are not trying to trick you or make you feel uncomfortable; they actually want to help you do your best.
Contact us
Finally, if you have any questions about the admissions process or applying to Queen’s, please get in touch with us:
Email: admissions@queens.ox.ac.uk / Tel: 01865 279161
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Laurence Binyon Prize awarded to current student Tom Greany
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Sung Eucharist at Westminster Abbey
Have your garden and eat it!
Summer reads from the Library
What’s for lunch?
- weekday lunch it is a set two course meal
at midday prompt, by sign on
💡 From the lab to the start-up world
Old Member Olena Didenko (Neuroscience MSc, 2022) is a co-founder of BioFragment, a start-up that demonstrates how science, sustainability, and entrepreneurship can come together to change lives. With support from EnSpire Oxford and entrepreneurship programmes across the University, they are pioneering a greener, faster way to speed up drug discovery.
🔗 Read the blogpost to discover more: ow.ly/fIZF50WMGJ2
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🖋️Pressing Matters: Rare Book School and the Making of Books
Imagine a world where every book begins not with a click of a mouse but with the tearing of rags, the sting of sweat, and the thud of type being locked into place.
This summer, librarians Lauren and Sarah stepped into that world at London Rare Book School and discovered just how much human effort lies behind every early printed book.
📖 Paper thickened by the strain of pulling moulds from vats
💧 Vatman’s tears, literal drops of sweat, captured in the fibres
🔠 Type picked, letter by letter, from heavy cases and set upside-down into a stick
💪 Pressmen forcing ink evenly across the page, page after page, for hours on end
What struck them most wasn’t just the skill, but the sheer physical labour behind each volume, reminders that these objects, which now sit so quietly in our Upper Library, were born of back-breaking craft, long days, and the occasional mistake left in place to save time and money.
Read more on our blog: ow.ly/OFgM50WLvm6
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Queen’s and the Decadents
The word 'decadence' might conjure thoughts of luxury and indulgence today, but in the late 19th century it described a bold literary and artistic movement that challenged Victorian values.
📚 A new Library exhibition explores the College's connections to this world, spotlighting two Old Members:
Walter Pater (1839–1894) whose writings inspired Oscar Wilde and helped shape aestheticism.
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) poet of the ‘Tragic Generation’, remembered for his haunting verse
🔗Read the blogpost: ow.ly/pqTT50WHwGC
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🎶 Queen’s Choir at Westminster Abbey 🎶
This Friday, 15 August, at 5pm, join current and former members of Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford Queen’s College Choir for a special Eucharist at Westminster Abbey, marking the anniversary of the death of Queen Philippa, in whose honour the College was founded in 1341.
Join in person or online - the service will be live-streamed here: ow.ly/j73v50WF4NR
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