For information on graduate admissions in the Department of Medical Genetics or CIMR Medical Genetics, please see below :
A. Admission to the University
You should apply for admission to the University using the University’s online Applicant Portal if you:
- wish to apply for University-wide funding competitions (eg Gates, Cambridge Overseas & Commonwealth Trusts, Cambridge Home and EU Scholarships etc – NB these funding competitions all have very early deadlines.
- have been awarded a specific studentship / programme position in competition
- wish to apply for a College studentship
- have an external scholarship; or
- have your own funding.
BEFORE YOU COMPLETE A NEW APPLICANT PORTAL, READ THE FOLLOWING:
B. Are you eligible to apply for admission to our programmes? Competition for admission to the University of Cambridge graduate programme is intense.
Like all departments in the Graduate School, we require all our graduate entrants to have:
- at least a 2.1 in an Honours degree or equivalent (eg CGPA 3.5/4.0) in a relevant subject
- two outstanding references from senior University staff at your most recent University
- fluency in the English language – recent IELTS test with an overall band score of at least 7.0 with not less than 7.0 in speaking, listening and writing, and 6.5 in reading.
For more details of the University’s academic requirements click here.
B1. Which qualification do you want to apply for?
- Taught MPhil in Genomic Medicine – A new, one-year full-time taught course in Genomic Medicine, delivered in partnership with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute. This course is also available as a part-time option (six terms) leading to the degree of Master of Studies and parts of the course may be taken for the award of a Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma. For further details on the course, and for application information, see www.ice.cam.ac.uk/genomics. Funding is available from Health Education England for applicants who are NHS employees.
- MPhil by research (thesis) (1 year) – A one year full-time or part-time research course consisting of three (fulltime) or five (part-time) terms.
- PhD (thesis) – A standard three-year programme with flexible start dates (can also be taken part-time over five years).
B2. What topic do you want to study and which supervisor do you want to work with ?
To choose a department, you need to do some serious homework to identify a topic and one or more supervisors in that department with whom you wish to work. If you have not already decided, you should:
- Browse our PIs and visit their personal/group page to check details of their research, see if they have any vacancies and make contact with them to discuss your plans:
- If you are interested in more than one supervisor within THIS department, you can name them as first and second choice in your application, but if you want to apply to supervisors in different departments, you will have to make separate applications (one to each department).
- NB Many research topics are also available in other departments of the Graduate School of Life Sciences . Click here to browse the Graduate School database.
B3. How to apply to the University
Please visit Graduate Admissions website for full instructions on how to apply online.
B4. Enquiries
If you have any questions about MPhil by research or PhD only, contact Amanda Goldsmith: phdadmin@cimr.cam.ac.uk
If you have any questions about MPhil in Genomic Medicine only, contact Michaela Boak: mb2218@medschl.cam.ac.uk