TAUGHT COURSE STUDENTS WHO WILL COMPLETE THEIR COURSES IN JULY 2013 AND BEYOND

The system of allocating graduation ceremonies will change from July 2013, and arrangements will then be made by the central University administration.

The College will contact students nearing graduation to advise of appropriate Degree Days and invite them to lunch in College with their guests.   In autumn 2012, final year taught course students completing a degree in or after Trinity term 2013 will receive an invitation from the Degree Conferrals Office to book a place (for themselves and up to three guests)  at a degree ceremony the following summer/autumn.  Bookings must be confirmed with the DCO by January 2013.  Bookings will be taken on a first come-first served basis.  If you miss the deadline you will lose your priority status and will be counted as an ˜historic graduand".  Of course you will still be able to have your degree conferred in absence at any ceremony if you prefer.

RESEARCH STUDENTS

Research students will be invited to a degree ceremony when they have been granted leave to supplicate. (Research students granted leave to supplicate before 12 December 2012 will need to contact Lincoln to book a degree ceremony.)

THOSE WHO WISH TO HAVE THEIR MA CONFERRED, AND HISTORIC GRADUANDS

It is expected that a proportion of the invited students will not take up their place to graduate in person and these spaces will be available to ˜historic graduands" (those who have not yet had their degree(s) conferred) and candidates for the Master of Arts.  If you fall into either of these categories then please contact the Rector's PA (tel 01865 279804, e-mail: sally.lacey@lincoln.ox.ac.uk) to put your name on a waiting list for a place at a graduation ceremony from July 2013.

For more information please check the University's Degree Conferral website which gets updated regularly.

For 2013-14 the ceremony dates will be:

2013
Saturday 13 July - afternoon ceremony
Monday 22 July - morning ceremony
Tuesday 23 July - morning ceremony
Wednesday 24 July - morning ceremony
Monday 16 September  - morning ceremony
Friday 20 September - morning ceremony     
Friday 8 November - afternoon ceremony  
Saturday 9 November - afternoon ceremony
     
2014
Saturday 8 March - afternoon ceremony  
Saturday 10 May - afternoon ceremony 

 

Master of Arts (MA) degree 
 
In most UK universities, the Master of Arts is a free-standing graduate degree awarded by examination. In Oxford (as in Cambridge), and following longstanding tradition, the status of Master of Arts is a mark of seniority within the University which may be conferred twenty-one terms after matriculation.

If you have completed a BA you will be eligible to take an MA in or after the 21st term since you matriculated (i.e. seven years after matriculation). This is not an automatic process and to obtain your MA you must apply to graduate at a degree ceremony (either in person or in absentia). You must have had your BA conferred in order to take your MA. They can be conferred at the same ceremony provided that sufficient time has elapsed since you matriculated. 

You are not at any point eligible to take an MA if your undergraduate degree is an Oxford integrated Masters degree. The Oxford MA is about reaching a new status within the University and not an upgrade of your BA or an additional qualification. It therefore has no subject or class. There is an MA degree fee of £20.00 payable to Lincoln College.  Please contact the Rector's PA to book a ceremony (sally.lacey@lincoln.ox.ac.uk).