Study China at Oxford

Study China at Oxford

The China Centre is not a faculty or school, and as such does not offer degree-granting courses. The University of Oxford, however, is home to a number of world-renowned degree programmes with a focus on China.

The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies offers a four-year Chinese BA Honours Course surveying both traditional and modern China. For more information, please see here.

The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies offer a joint one-year MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies involving core and elective papers, research methods training, and a 12,000 work thesis. For more details, please see here.

The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies offers a one-year MSt in Traditional China involving close engagement with selected texts, additional language study, training in Sinology, and a 15,000 word thesis. For more information, please see here. It also offers an MPhil in Traditional East Asia, focusing on the Sinitic tradition and its development and adaptations in China, Korea and Japan. You can find more information on the MPhil here.

The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies offer a joint two-year MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies involving intensive language study, core course work and research methodology training, elective papers, and a thesis of 20,000 words. For further information, see here

Both the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies offer DPhil degrees, which can be pursued with a focus on China. For information on the DPhil in Area Studies, please see here. For information on the DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, please see here.

The study of China can also be pursued through various other disciplinary lenses, including through undergraduate and graduate programmes offered through the Department of Politics and International Relations, Faculty of History, School of Archaeology, School of Geography and the Environment, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Department of International Development, and more.