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
Queen’s now
Record year for Anthea Bell Prize as 2026 winners announced
Honorary Fellow recognised in Birthday Honours List
QTE wins a Vice-Chancellor’s Award
Human translation as a literary lens
New student-led video tour of College life
Celebrating creativity
What’s for lunch?
- two course meal at midday prompt, by sign on
🏆 Congratulations to all the winners and highly commended entrants in this year's Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators by the Queen's Translation Exchange.
This year marked a record-breaking sixth edition of the prize, with more than 25,000 students from over 500 schools across the UK taking part. More than 5,400 outstanding translations were judged by professional literary translators and Oxford Modern Languages students.
The remarkable response shows the enthusiasm of young people for languages, creativity and translation, and reflects the dedication of the teachers who inspire them.
🎉 Congratulations to everyone who took part, and thank you to all the judges, teachers, and schools who made this year's competition such a success.
🔗 Read more and see the list of winners here: ow.ly/3FlQ50ZjEOO
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🌳🛏️ What happens when resting becomes part of an artwork?
For Queen’s graduate art student Rafael Pérez Evans, the horizontal body is not passive. In 'Horizontals', his year-long exhibition at Wakehurst, Kew Gardens, fallen ash trees become sculptural resting places. His work asks visitors to stop, lie down, look up, and spend time with the trees, connecting human exhaustion with wider questions of burnout, disability, and ecological pressure.
Rafael says: “When you lie down, the forest stops being something you move through and becomes something you tune into.”
🔗 Read our interview with Rafael who explains the influence of Henry Moore and the ‘beautiful conversations’ at Queen’s: ow.ly/AMcN50ZjbaC
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The College warmly congratulates Professor Ludovic Phalippou, Fellow in Finance and Professor of Financial Economics at the Saïd Business School, on receiving the 2026 James R. Vertin Award for Outstanding Contribution to Investment Research from the CFA Institute Research Foundation.
The award recognises his major contribution to investment practice and education, particularly through his internationally recognised research on private equity and private markets.
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/KEzn50ZiESt
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Can AI accelerate a cancer vaccine?
Old Member Dr Lennard Lee (Medicine, 2005) is helping to lead a pioneering UK project using AI and supercomputing to speed up the development of personalised cancer vaccines.
His work brings together cancer research, sovereign AI infrastructure, and robotic laboratory equipment, with the aim of making cancer therapies faster and more effective. At the centre of the project is CIARA, the UK’s first prototype AI Scientist, designed to support human researchers and accelerate discovery under full human oversight.
For Lennard, the ambition behind the work also reflects lessons learned at Queen’s and at sea (during a record-breaking swim): resilience and the belief that small groups of committed people can achieve extraordinary things.
“Success is fundamentally about teams. Queen’s taught me that.”
🔗 Read the full interview: ow.ly/cPly50Zi6Cu
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