Why Keble?

Keble offers the opportunity to belong to a large and flourishing graduate community. 

Keble is a community of men and women sustained by their shared commitment to ideals of academic excellence.  At the postgraduate level that means that we are keen to attract students from as wide a variety of backgrounds as possible studying the full range of academic disciplines.  We wish to realise the full potential of our members by providing them with frameworks of academic and social support, encouraging them to broaden their horizons by interacting with people from other disciplines.

Comprising about 250 members, the Keble graduate community is extraordinarily diverse.  About half its members come from the United Kingdom, but the rest are drawn from all over the world.  About 10% are from the other countries of the European Union, and another 10% from North America, with a strong showing from Australasia and Asia, and a growing presence from Africa and South America.  Many of our graduate students come to us straight from their first degree courses, but others decide to undertake postgraduate study after a period at work.  Our intake therefore regularly includes people with a wide variety of professional and Business backgrounds.  We admit graduates to study courses across the spectrum of academic disciplines, which means that you will overhear conversations in the MCR on topics as diverse as Renaissance women writers, international law, and medical cell biology.  Membership of our graduate body is therefore both a cosmopolitan and intellectually enriching experience.