The University of Oxford

There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.

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The university is made up of a variety of institutions, including 38 constituent colleges and a full range of academic departments which are organised into four divisions

Student’s life

Academic dress is required for examinations, matriculation, disciplinary hearings, and when visiting university officers

Some colleges have formal hall six times a week, but in others this only happens occasionally. At most colleges these formal meals require gowns to be worn, and a Latin grace is said.

Commemoration balls

Punting is a common summer leisure activity.

The Bodleian LibraryThe Bodleian, consist of the original Bodleian Library in the Old Schools Quadrangle, founded by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 and opened in 1602the Radcliffe Camera, the Clarendon Building, and the New Bodleian

Library's entrance with the coats-of-arms of several Oxford

colleges

Oxford maintains a number of museums and galleries, open for free to the public.

Museums

Ashmolean MuseumIt was founded in 1683, is the oldest museum in the UK, and the oldest university museum in the world. It holds significant collections of art and archaeology, including works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Turner, and Picasso, as well as treasures such as the Scorpion Macehead, the Parian Marble and the Alfred Jewel. It also contains "The Messiah", a pristine Stradivarius violin, regarded by some as one of the finest examples in existence.

Scorpion Macehead, Parian Marble

Alfred Jewel The Messiah

Benefits of studying in University of Oxford

1.You are surrounded by some of the smartest people in the world2.You get work with them and socialise with them3.You will meet a huge variety of people4.Top employers will court you5.You can get noticed, even as an undergraduate6.You can’t rest on your laurels7.You will never be busier8.You will learn some very specific skills9.There are few places quite like it

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