Applicants will need to meet the standard minimum requirements for graduate study in Cambridge, including achievement of a good UK2.i honours degree or equivalent. 

If your degree is not from the UK, please check International Qualifications to find the equivalent in your country.

Applicants will usually have undergraduate experience in quantitative science or a degree in a health-related area, although other relevant experience will also be considered. 

We also expect clear interest in Population Health Sciences (PHS), clear commitment to a career in PHS, and a clear understanding of the contribution of the MPhil to applicants’ future career ambitions. 

Applicants without the standard university requirements but with, for example, clinical degrees, substantial and highly relevant professional experience, or intercalating medical students, may be considered via our non-standard admissions mechanism, if they meet all other admissions criteria. If your application should be considered via our non-standard mechanism, please select ‘no’ on the verification of qualifications question on the application form, and then provide some justification.
Please note that admission through this non-standard route is available only to a very small number of outstanding applicants each year; applicants via this non-standard route who have only recently graduated, or with limited professional experience, will not be competitive.

Mathematical skills at the level of an excellent A-level student are a minimum requirement for applicants to the Health Data Science (HDS) theme. Nevertheless, we expect that most applicants to HDS will have a mathematical training that is more advanced than A-level. Applicants to HDS who only satisfy the minimum mathematical requirement should have an undergraduate degree in a field relevant to the course (e.g. biomedical sciences). Some aptitude for and experience of computer programming is highly desirable for HDS applicants. 

We also require all applicants to demonstrate competence in the English language at a very high level (see more on this).