It is awarded to students who have completed an undergraduate program with a major in Philosophy, Critical Thinking, or Religious Studies.
However, the Philosophy Faculty[3] (then a sub-faculty) argued that its BPhil degree had become so well-known and respected in the philosophical world that it would be confusing to change the name.
Today's Oxford BPhil course is a two-year programme of seminars, six essays (of up to 5,000 words each) and a research thesis (max.
Notable graduates of the BPhil include: Cora Diamond, Daniel Dennett, George Boolos, Galen Strawson, G. A. Cohen, J. J. C. Smart, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Churchland, Peter Singer, R. M. Hare, Richard Swinburne, Rosalind Hursthouse, Thomas Friedman, Thomas Nagel, and William MacAskill.
Filmmaker Terrence Malick started a BPhil course but left without a degree after a disagreement with his adviser, Gilbert Ryle.
These students are usually in the discipleship stage of formation for two years, taking the 30 philosophy credits required for the degree.
Examples of seminaries that award this degree are: Several universities have adopted the Oxford model of the BPhil as a graduate degree, either as originally intended (in a variety of academic subjects) or as it subsequently developed (in philosophy only); for example, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram and Newcastle University.
At University of Pittsburgh Honors College, BPhil candidates must pass oral examinations of a senior thesis.
The University of Birmingham offers the BPhil as a taught, research-based undergraduate degree in the fields of education and counselling.
Prospective students must have obtained a recognised undergraduate degree in any discipline and sat for the department's entrance examination, which is written across South Africa.
The degree was offered by the college as part of the Hutchins program that allowed students to matriculate after two years of high school.