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Thank you for your answer! I will wait until I know something about the funds!

Hi everyone, I was admitted to Notre Dame's History and philosophy of science program (HPS) and to Oxford's BPhil Philosophy program. Upon this moment Oxford have not told me about fundings while ND did. In the hypothetical case Oxford offered me funding, I would not know what to decide; I guess it is much better to enter directly into a PhD program but I know Oxford is better ranked in philosophy (ND is 19 whereas Oxford is 2). Now, I do not know how important is the general ranking in the decision ( ND still is an excellent program, being 19 is pretty good after all). Also, I have heard that students in the BPhil will have to repeat the application process in order to continue into the PhD (even if they want to go into Oxford's PhD program), and it would be very sad if in that moment I could not enter into a PhD program as nice as ND is (maybe I could enter into other programs even better , but there is a high risk I do not). So, my question is: supposing that Oxford offered me financiation (enough for living and paying all the costs), would you enter into the BPhil or would you enter into ND PhD program? By the way, I am interested in philosophy of physics, metaphysics and philosophy of science. Thank you everybody for your time, this is a very important decision and I would appreciate if you could help me.