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DPhil is the Oxford equivalent of a PhD. Both ‘PhD’ and ‘DPhil’ are abbreviations for ‘Doctor of Philosophy’.

Students receive a year of cohort specialist based training in the first year in a CDT, before they start their DPhil, so the duration is four years instead of three years.