Cpt Jo

In History, it's grim outside Oxbridge. If your thesis has an important international/economics component, then you can try LSE as they don't base their funding on nationality. http://www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/students/moneyMatters/financialSupport/ScholarshipsLSE/PhDApp/LSEPhDStudentships.aspx

£4,000 is for Home/EU students, internationals pay at least £15,000...

No, they removed it. I don't think I was supposed to see this information. I don't know about ESH PhD, but I think the numbers I gave include all PhDs (History, History of Medicine, ESH).

Yes, it's because LSE did not receive governmental funding in the Humanities, but - as they have the money - they decided to set their own scheme. It's the same at Warwick.

Not sure of what you mean, but if by "bursaries" you mean giving scholarships from their own departmental funds, the answer is no. They don't have recurrent funds like US top programs. The university pays their salaries and then all their money comes from grants. I haven't updated my sig, it's from last year, but yes rejecting an offer from Oxford hurts. I've already been unsuccessful at Cambridge. Now I'm waiting for the results at Oxford this week. I'm not confident.

I've no idea about US programs as I haven't applied to any of them, but since you come from Harvard, you should still apply to Oxbridge. The Cambridge Gates is so selective because it considers all nationalities and all subjects, whilst Rhodes and Ertugun schemes are more selective (USA+Commonwealth for the former, Humanities for the latter); they also require additional application materials where you can make a difference.

The problem is that everybody doesn't have the same chance for funding. It depends on your fee status. The main funding scheme for History is the AHRC, which only gives full awards to UK residents; EU residents are only awarded fee waivers, and must therefore complete the scholarship at another source (usually the university finds something for them). I think there are something like 8-10 AHRC PhD scholarships in History, for which you are therefore ineligible. Same for college scholarships, there are often restricted to EU/UK students (example here). Last year (as far as I remember), colleges gave about 8 full PhD scholarships in History, of which perhaps two were given to internationals. The remaining funding schemes are the Clarendon, the Ertegun and the Rhodes scholarships; they are open to internationals, but the competition is really tough. So in fact, the chance of getting funding for a British resident is (schematically) about 20%, 10% for EU students, and 5% for internationals.

At Oxford they say DPhil, at Cambridge they say PhD. Otherwise, Oxford has MPhil programs that are two years long, from which you can embark in a 2-year DPhil (2+2 route). Both Mst in US History are only one year long though. The application form for Cambridge is way longer to fill than Oxford's. International Fees: Oxford: £18.5K for DPhil, £20.5K for Masters. Cambridge: £20K for PhD, £20.5K for Masters. You should also consider the fact that housing is very expensive there (Cambridge being a bit cheaper). Count at least £6K per year - if you're willing to commute and share, otherwise it's much more. As Prosopographer said above, they send quite a lot of offers. However the real selection is made through funding as they only give 30 PhDs scholarships per year on average (I think it's the same figure for Cambridge). Funding is almost impossible to get for international students, unless you're one of those crazy guys who can get a Gates or Rhodes scholarship. Note: I found the admission statistics for 2014 entry: There were 268 applications for a PhD in History (+Art and Medicine) and 167 offers. Admission rate: 62%. There were 667 applications for a Master in History (+Art and Medicine) and 338 offers. Admission rate: 51%. However: 30 PhD offers were funded; funding/offers=18% 24 masters were funded; funding/offers=7% See the number of applications for each program last year: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/e862de08-70ab-4873-8dec-f493382c969a/noticeboard/gjcc_latest_minutes.pdf

Isolated. Brutalist. Friendly.

I took the opportunity to work on unpublished Memoirs of a politician.

I found this: http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-2014/the-academic-job-markets-jagged-line Positions Advertised with the AHA Early Career Openings by Geographic Speciality Number of Entry-level Positions Advertised in Geographic Subject Field, 1991–92 to 2011–12 https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/january-2013/the-2012-jobs-report "The number of applications for positions in the history of the U.S., for instance, increased to an average of 118 per opening, very near the high of 120 recorded in the 1995–96 academic year. And the average number of applications to European history positions reached an unprecedented level, at just over 100 per position. Applications for positions in Asian history also increased to an average of 70.4 per position, while applications for African history fell slightly to an average of 53.2. Applications for openings in Latin American history and the history of the Middle East and Islamic world were essentially unchanged, at an average of 87.1 and 64.3 applications respectively."

In the UK it's 80-100K words maximum (excluding appendices). In France, it's between 500-1000 pages (including appendices). Including appendices, I wrote 300p for a two-year-master's thesis. Interesting, historians write the longest theses.

Kellogg. I received the offer two weeks after my first choice rejection.

Got mine on Monday.

Yes, I heard it's possible at Oxbridge. I wasn't clear but I was speaking of the other unis in the UK - in the humanities.