The application window for the Blavatnik School of Government innovative one year MPP closes in a week.

“Transformational” and “pure gold” are the words used by MPP students when asked to describe their time on the School’s innovative one year Master of Public Policy degree programme. Friday 24 January will see the close of the application window for students hoping to start in September 2014 but there is still time to apply. Will you or anyone you know be amongst the ones transformed next year?

The School has already received many strong applications and we look forward to receiving even more in the next week. We would encourage anyone still considering us to complete his or her application within the next week. For a quick guide on how to do so, Casper Bangert from the Blavatnik School Admissions Team gives some valuable last minute advice (video).

The next three months are exciting ones, not only for our applicants but also for the School, as we determine who will be joining the School community next year in our Class of 2014. Those joining us will do so at a critical and exciting time in the School’s history: As we lay the physical foundation for our new building on the RQQ site, we also lay the nonphysical foundation for the Blavatnik School spirit that will inhabit it.

Our flagship MPP programme is an essential part of this community and students joining us for our third MPP class will undergo a unique, transformative experience:

1. They will be taught using our made to measure, integrated, one year curriculum by leading practitioners and academic experts. Course Director Peter Kemp talks about the aims and design of the course (video).
2. They will become a part of the University of Oxford’s 900 years long history with access to the rich cultural and academic life of the University. This includes membership of a college, whereby the student will gain a second interdisciplinary academic and social home. MPP student Emma Truswell sheds light on the student experience (video).
3. They will gain a network of peers that extends across the globe. Having gone through the intensity of the MPP year together students will bond and remain connected. Watch this video of images taken from events and experiences during our first year (video).
4. They will receive practical experience through their Summer Projects enabling them to test the skills of the classroom in real life. Three students talk about their summer project experiences last year (video).

For further information on the MPP and how to apply please see www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/study/mpp.