General Information About AUD(American University of Dubai)

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF DUBAI

The American University in Dubai is situated next to Dubai Media City, Dubai Internet City, and the Palm Islands. It is 15 minutes from the heart of Dubai's financial and commercial centre and 25 minutes from Dubai International Airport.

AUD's multi-complex facility is situated on grounds of approximately 1,300,000 sq. ft. and encompasses three academic buildings, a Student Center, an administration building, residence halls, a cafeteria area, and an open air sports facilities.

Academic Buildings
The Engineering Building which was inaugurated in 2002 is equipped with the latest technology and caters to the needs of the Electrical, Civil and Computer Engineering students. It also contains a myriad of computer laboratories which are at the disposal of Information Technology and Engineering students. This building also houses the offices of the Center for Executive Programs and Professional Services

The Arts Building contains in addition to the computer labs several rooms that are equipped for and used by both Interior Design and Visual Communication students, in addition to a photo studio and a dark room. Business classes and many liberal course sessions are conducted in the Business School.

The Student Center
The Student Center Building is the most recent addition to the campus. The Center extends over an area of 13,000 m², 2,600 m² of which are occupied by central courts and a stadium.

The ground floor encompasses a cafeteria, a central kitchen with all of its amenities, and a 4,300 square feet dinning area. A central indoor football field is designed so that it can be dismantled into two independent courts and used as a basketball or volleyball court. This court hasa stadium with a capacity of two thousand five hundred spectators, in addition to an outdoor stadium that lies across the soccer field, and that can accommodate three hundred spectators.

This ground floor also has two squash play grounds, two locker rooms, with shower booths assigned for males and females, a barber shop, a beauty salon, a travel agency, a bank, a copy center, an AUD souvenir shop, a book store, a supermarket, and three shops.

The first floor accommodates one food court with six outlets, six kitchens, six stores, and a 4,300 square feet dining area, a restaurant for external vendors, one store room, one multipurpose 144 capacity high tech hall, and a meeting room for approximately thirty-six players. It also has an office for the AUD sports coaches, two 1,600 square feet gymnasiums for gents and ladies, and a sports office.

The second floor includes one hall with the capacity for a hundred people, nine classrooms/labs, one storage room, seventeen offices, one conference room, two control rooms for the central court, and a lobby/waiting area.

Finally, the third floor has nine classrooms/labs, a storage room, twenty-one offices, one conference room, and one lobby/waiting area.

Administration Building
The main administration building houses all the administrative offices. The University's main auditorium is housed within the main administration building and has a capacity for an audience of 900 guests. It is fully equipped with the latest sound and light systems. AUD's 11,706 sq. ft library is also located in the main administration building.

Residence Halls
Student Residence Halls are located in the northwest corner of the AUD campus and have a capacity to house 536 students. They are within 2–5 minutes' walking distance from the academic buildings, library, computer labs, cafeteria, grocery shop and the outdoor sports facilities. Each residence hall has a laundry room, a study area, a TV lounge, and a fully equipped kitchen and dining room. Campus satellite television service is provided in each lounge. High-speed Internet connections are standard in each room of all four residence halls. A separate female gym and male gym are available for use by housing residents. This complete fitness facility is provided free to students living in the residence halls.

Open door facilities
The campus outdoor facility includes basketball, tennis & volleyball courts, a soccer field and a swimming pool

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About the Cambridge University

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How the University works

Introduction

The University of Cambridge is a confederation of Colleges, Faculties and other institutions.

The University functions with a relatively small central administration, and with central bodies consisting of, and mainly elected by, the current academic personnel of the Faculties and Colleges.

A large part of Cambridge's day-to-day administration is carried out by teaching staff on behalf of their colleagues, and the University's governmental structure is democratic.

As Cambridge approaches its 800th anniversary, it is not surprising that the way in which the University governs itself can appear complex. These pages outline the principal elements in these procedures in simple terms and define some Cambridge terminology. They are not an authoritative statement of the University's Statutes, nor of the legal position in relation to the rights and duties of any body or bodies.

Introduction

In 2009, the University will be celebrating its 800th anniversary.

As one of the world's leading universities, Cambridge has a reputation that reflects the intellectual achievement of its students and the outstanding work of the academic community of the University and the Colleges. Over the last 800 years, its contribution to the world has ranged from the discovery of the mechanism of blood circulation to the structure of DNA, from the great philosophers of the early 15th Century, to the groundbreaking work of its many Nobel Prize winners.

The University will be marking its 800th anniversary with an exciting and varied programme of events. We will be celebrating the ideas, people and achievements from the University that continue to transform and benefit the world and to look forward to future developments. It is also a chance to thank students, staff, alumni and the local community for the contributions they make to the university.

2009 Fund

University, college or student groups are invited to apply for grant money from the Cambridge 2009 Fund to support one-off events in 2009 marking the 800th anniversary and promoting or celebrating the contribution of Collegiate Cambridge to society. Guidance for applicants is available and you can download the application form from this site.

The University's Mission and Core Values

Mission

The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence.

Core values

The University's core values are as follows:

• freedom of thought and expression
• freedom from discrimination

Education

• the encouragement of a questioning spirit
• an extensive range of academic subjects in all major subject groups
• quality and depth of provision across all subjects
• the close inter-relationship between teaching, scholarship, and research
• strong support for individual researchers as well as research groups
• residence in Cambridge as central to most courses
• education which enhances the ability of students to learn throughout life

The University's relationship with society

• the widest possible student access to the University
• the contribution which the University can make to society through the pursuit, dissemination, and application of knowledge
• the place of the University within the broader academic and local community
• opportunities for innovative partnerships with business, charitable foundations, and healthcare
• concern for sustainability and the relationship with the environment

The Collegiate University

• the relationship between the University and the Colleges as fundamental to the nature of Cambridge
• the interdisciplinary nature of the Colleges as a major stimulus to teaching and learning
• the enhanced quality of experience for students and staff through College membership

University staff

• recognition and reward of the University's staff as its greatest asset
• the encouragement of career development for all staff

Other activities

• the opportunities for broadening the experience of students and staff through participation in sport, music, drama, the visual arts, and other cultural activities

• Introduction

  

  The University of Cambridge is rich in history - its famous Colleges and University buildings attract visitors from all over the world. But the University's libraries, museums and collections also hold many treasures which give an exciting insight into some of the scholarly activities, both past and present, of the University's academics and students.

  

  Information here will give you a taste of what is on offer - from the enormous collection of books at the University Library, one of the six legal deposit libraries in the British Isles; to the local geological finds at the Sedgwick Museum and archaeological finds at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; to the fine paintings and sculpture at the Fitzwilliam and contemporary art at Kettle's Yard, wonderful collections of plants at the Botanic Garden; and specimens brought back by Darwin from his voyages on display at the Museum of Zoology; Darwin's rock collection is displayed at the Sedgwick Museum, which also has fine collections of fossils, rocks and minerals.

  Special events go on throughout the year - talks, concerts, exhibitions, family workshops, courses for adults and displays - and also the education programmes for schools. Members of the public are given a warm welcome. Teachers interested in INSET programmes and special projects for schools should contact the education officer at either the Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle's Yard or the Botanic Garden for details.

• Computing Resources

  The University aims to provide an advanced IT infrastructure suitable for the support of the teaching and research activities of Departments and Colleges. The Information Technology Syndicate, which contains strong College representation, is responsible for strategy, for establishing standards of use throughout the University, and for advising on all matters relating to Information Technology.

  Computing resources for teaching, and for research that is not IT-resource intensive, are provided at three levels: general facilities are provided by the Colleges, facilities which need to be provided on a University-wide basis are the responsibility of the Computing Service, and Departments provide subject-specific facilities. The University data network (CUDN) is central to this strategy. It is connected with high-speed links to SuperJANET and the Internet in order to provide the necessary connectivity to the world at large.

  Services

  • The University Computing Service. Hardware support can do repairs and you can obtain site-licenced free software (such as anitvirus software) and buy software from Software Sales.
  • The University Library
  • Departments and colleges, listed in A-Z list or with telephone numbers and addresses
  • The IT Syndicate supervises IT provision and use in the University and Colleges
  • The Language Centre provides access to facilities and expertise in language learning for use throughout the University
  • Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET)
  • Cambridge Computer Emergency Response Team

  Facilities

  • Electronic mail at Cambridge including the Hermes Webmail Service.
  • Email directories of staff and students
    • World access email directory
    • University lookup service (Raven-controlled access)
  • The site-wide search facility, and information for local users about how to administer its use
  • The PWF, public workstations for students and staff, providing facilities for personal web pages and remotely accessible filespace.
  • Raven - the University's authentication service
  • CamTools - the University's collaborative working environment
  • Super computing
    • Cambridge eScience Centre
    • PWF Condor
    • The High Performance Computing Service, available only to registered local users
  • University-wide newsgroups - web interface for easy access
  • Support is available for Windows, Macs, Unix and Networks.
  • The Computing Service Help Desk offers immediate assistance with Computing Service facilities, and there are various other IT Help Desks within the University for some specialist systems.
  • The Computing Service offers IT Training Courses, nearly all free of charge to staff and students of the University
  • Wireless access: there are many hot-spots in the University. The Computing Service run lapwing, which supports an increasing number of hot-spots. Some colleges and departments run their own services. \

University Archives

The University Archives is responsible for the selection and preservation of the internal administrative records of the University of Cambridge, dating from 1266 to the present, and for making them available for administrative and research purposes. The archives are as diverse in their contents as the activities - self governance, teaching and research, property management, administration of justice, external relations - the University has pursued down the centuries. They include charters, statutes and title deeds, records of its legislative and executive bodies, central administration, Syndicates and committees, departments and faculties, students and law courts. Some recent records are accessible only to those with written authority from the appropriate officers, but most are freely available in the University Library Department of MSS \and University Archives. An on-line catalogue is available at http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk

About Axford University

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Welcome from the Chancellor

Welcome to the University of Oxford. People from all walks of life and all parts of the world have been visiting us for nine centuries and we are delighted that via this website you are joining that long tradition. Oxford was the first University in the English-speaking world. Our aim is to remain at the forefront of centres of learning, teaching and research. 

Oxford’s remarkable global appeal continues to grow. More than a hundred and thirty nationalities are represented among a student population of over eighteen thousand. Almost a quarter comes from outside the United Kingdom.

But it is not just longevity and global reach that mark Oxford out and give the University its special character. There is also our distinctive college and tutorial system which underpins a culture of close academic supervision and careful personal support for our outstanding students. Our colleges and halls of which there are more than forty also help to foster the intense interdisciplinary approach that inspires much of the outstanding research achievement of the University and makes Oxford a leader in so many fields. It is an approach especially suited to confronting many of the hugely complex challenges that face us all. That is why we believe that the greater we can make Oxford, the greater its contribution to the well-being of the world you and I share

 Oxford People

With almost 20,000 students, 8,500 University staff, 3,000 College employees, and 180,000 alumni, people are what make Oxford an internationally-renowned university.

Key University Officers

Chancellor:
The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes, CH

Vice-Chancellor:
Dr John Hood

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education):
Professor Elizabeth Fallaize

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Development and External Affairs):
Dr Jon Dellandrea, CM

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Personnel and Equal Opportunities):
Dame Fiona Caldicott, FRCPsych, FRCP, FRCPI, FRCGP, FMedSci

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resources):
Professor Anthony Monaco, FMedSci

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research, Academic Services and University Collections):
Professor Ewan McKendrick

Pro-Vice-Chancellors:
Professor Roger Ainsworth, FRAeS, Master of St Catherine's College
Sir Alan Budd, Provost of The Queen's College
Professor Dame Averil Cameron, CBE, FBA, FSA, Warden of Keble College
Mr Andrew Dilnot, CBE, Principal of St Hugh's College
Professor Dame Jessica Rawson, DBE, CBE, FBA, Warden of Merton College
Sir Michael Scholar, KCB, President of St John's College
Professor Paul Slack, FBA, Principal of Linacre College
Mr Richard Smethurst, Provost of Worcester College

Registrar of the University:
Dr Julie Maxton

Academic Registrar and Secretary of Faculties:
Michael Sibly

Heads of Academic Divisions:
Humanities: Professor Sally Shuttleworth
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences: Professor Alex Halliday, FRS
Medical Sciences: Dr Ken Fleming, FRCPath
Social Sciences: Dr Michael Spence

Proctors:
Dr James Forder, Professor Marcus Banks

Assessor:
Dr Paul Coones

Public Orator:
Professor Richard Jenkyns

Bodley's Librarian and Director of University Library Services:
Dr Sarah Thomas

Director of the Ashmolean Museum:
Dr Christopher Brown

Director of the Museum of the History of Science:
Dr Jim Bennett

Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum:
Dr Michael O'Hanlon

Director of the University Museum of Natural History:
Professor Jim Kennedy

Famous Oxonians

Throughout its history, Oxford has produced gifted men and women in every sphere of human endeavour who have studied or taught at the University.

Among these are 25 British Prime Ministers, at least 25 international leaders, 48 Nobel Prize winners, six current holders of the Order of Merit, six kings, 12 saints and 20 Archbishops of Canterbury, and at least nine Olympic medal winners.

Currently, 107 Oxonians are Members of the UK's House of Commons and more than 140 sit in the House of Lords. 20 members of the Labour government's front bench team, 12 members of David Cameron's Shadow Cabinet; and 6 members of the Liberal Democrat Front Bench team are Oxford graduates. In addition, at least five members of the US House of Representatives and four members of the Senate were educated at Oxford. 

20th Century

• King Abdullah of Jordan
• Sir Grantley Adams, Premier of Barbados, 1954-1958; Prime Minister of the West Indies, 1958-1962
• J M G (Tom) Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados 1976-85
• Diran Adebayo, author
• Samira Ahmed, journalist and presenter
• Monica Ali, author
• Tariq Ali, writer
• Rowan Atkinson, comedian
• Kingsley Amis, author
• Lindsay Anderson, film-maker
• W H Auden, poet
• Clement Attlee, UK Prime Minister, 1945-1951
• Zeinab Badawi, journalist and broadcaster
• Ed Balls, Member of Parliament and Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
• Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 1956-1959
• Sir Roger Bannister, neurosurgeon and athlete
• Dame Josephine Barnes, first female President of the British Medical Association
• Marian Bell, economist
• Tony Benn, politician
• Alan Bennett, playwright
• Sir Lennox Berkeley, composer
• Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
• Sir John Betjeman, poet
• Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-90 & 1993-96)
• Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, former President (1970-73) and Prime Minister (1972-77) of Pakistan
• Henry Bonsu, journalist and broadcaster
• James Bowman, counter-tenor
• William Boyd, author
• Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister (1997-2007)
• Sir Christopher Bland, Chairman, British Telecommunications plc
• Baruch S Blumberg, Nobel Prize-winning scientist
• Edmund Blunden, poet
• Dr Ian Bostridge, opera singer
• Sir Adrian Boult, conductor
• Lord (Melvyn) Bragg, broadcaster
• Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, 1994-
• Vera Brittain, writer
• Peter Brook, theatre director
• Fiona Bruce, broadcaster
• Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of Ghana 1969-72
• Robert Byron, travel writer
• David Cameron, Member of Parliament and Leader of the Conservative Party
• Baroness Barbara Castle, politician
• General Wesley Clark, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 1997-2000
• Bill Clinton, President of the United States, 1992-2000
• Wendy Cope, poet
• Richard Curtis, screenwriter
• Cecil Day Lewis, poet
• Edward de Bono, philosopher
• David Dimbleby, journalist and broadcaster
• Sir John Eccles, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology 1963
• John Edmonds, trade unionist
• T S Eliot, poet
• Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, chef and broadcaster
• Helen Fielding, author
• Dr Amelia Fletcher, Chief Economist, Office of Fair Trading
• Lord Florey, Nobel Prize-winning pathologist
• Emilia Fox, actress
• Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia, 1975-83
• William Fulbright, politician, founder of the Fulbright Scholarships
• Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 1966-77 & 1980-84
• Dr Frene Ginwala, former Speaker of the South African National Assembly
• William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning novelist
• Hugh Grant, actor                   
• Robert Graves, poet
• Graham Greene, author
• Mark Haddon, author
• J B S Haldane, geneticist
• Professor Stuart Hall, sociologist
• Harald V, King of Norway since 1991
• Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-91
• Professor Stephen Hawking, physicist
• Joseph Heller, author
• Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Oscar-winning film-maker
• Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
• Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
• Edwin Hubble, astronomer
• Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster, 1976-99
• Aldous Huxley, author
• Armando Iannucci, writer and comedian
• Lord (Roy) Jenkins, former Home Secretary and Chancellor of the University
• Bobby Jindal, US Congressman
• Luke Johnson, businessman, Chairman of Channel 4
• Lakshman Kadirgamar, former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister
• Natasha Kaplinsky, television presenter
• Imran Khan, Pakistani politician and former international cricketer
• Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Soweto Kinch, jazz musician, saxophonist
• Dame Emma Kirkby, soprano
• John Kufuor, President of Ghana 2001-
• Haruhiko Kuroda, President of the Asian Development Bank
• Martha Lane Fox, businesswoman, co-founder of lastminute.com
• Philip Larkin, poet
• T E Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
• Nigella Lawson, chef and broadcaster
• John Le Carre, author
• C S Lewis, writer and scholar
• Ken Loach, film-maker
• Alain Locke, philosopher and architect of the Harlem Renaissance
• Richard G Lugar, United States Senator
• Val McDermid, crime writer
• Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum
• Harold Macmillan, UK Prime Minister, 1957-63
• Norman Manley, Leader of Jamaica, 1955-62
• Chief Justice Mrs Suvata Vasant Manohar, Judge of the Supreme Court of India 1994-99
• Sir Peter Medawar, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology 1960
• Ved Mehta, author
• Roland Michener, Governor-General of Canada 1967-74
• David Miliband, Member of Parliament and Foreign Secretary
• Dame Barbara Mills, first female Director of Public Prosecutions
• Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta, 1955-1958 & 1971-1984
• Dudley Moore, actor, comedian, musician
• Dom Moraes, poet
• Dame Iris Murdoch, philosopher and author
• Rupert Murdoch, Director, News International Plc
• Artur Mutambara, Zimbabwean politician
• Mylo, DJ
• V S Naipaul, Nobel Prize-winning author
• Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan
• Dr Rehn Olli, EU Commissioner for Enlargement
• Rageh Omaar, journalist
• Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary 1998-2002, leader of the Fidesz political party
• George Osborne, Member of Parliament and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Michael Palin, actor and writer
• Lester B Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada, 1963-1968, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Robert Penn Warren, American poet laureate
• Rosamund Pike, actress
• Matthew Pinsent, Four times Olympic Gold Medal-winning rower
• Dennis Potter, playwright
• Philip Pullman, author
• Hugh Quarshie, actor
• Nick Robinson, journalist
• Hon Raymond Robinson, President of Trinidad and Tobago, 1997-2003
• General Sir Michael Rose, former UN Commander in Bosnia
• Lord (Robert) Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1980-1991
• Sir Martin Ryle, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Dr Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi
• Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement
• Dorothy L Sayers, author
• Ernst Schumacher, economist
• Pixley Seme, founder of the African National Congress
• Vikram Seth, author
• Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, 2004-
• Jacqui Smith, Member of Parliament and Home Secretary
• Laura Solon, comedian
• Cornelia Sorabji, India’s first female lawyer
• John Spratt, United States Congressman
• Rick Stein, chef and broadcaster
• Sir Nicholas Stern, economist, author of the Stern Review into the Economics of Climate Change, 2006
• Aung San Suu Kyi, leader, Burmese National League for Democracy and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• A J P Taylor, historian
• Margaret Thatcher, UK Prime Minister, 1979-90
• Sir Wilfred Thesiger, explorer and anthropologist
• Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC
• Lester Thurow, economist
• J R R Tolkien, author and academic
• Margaret Turner-Warwick, first woman President of the Royal College of Physicians
• Revd Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans
• David Vitter, United States Congressman
• Baroness (Mary) Warnock, philosopher
• Evelyn Waugh, author
• Sir Andrew Wiles, mathematician
• Dr Eric Williams, historian and politician, Chief Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1956-1959, Premier 1959-1962, Prime Minister 1962-1981
• Ivy Williams, first female barrister in the UK
• Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury since 2002
• Baroness Shirley Williams, politician
• Dr Heather Wilson, United States Congresswoman
• Michael Winterbottom, film-maker
• Jeanette Winterson, author
• Qian Zhongsu, Chinese academic and writer
  

19th Century

• Matthew Arnold, poet
• H H Asquith, British Prime Minister
• Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor and composer
• Sir Max Beerbohm, author and cartoonist
• Gertrude Bell, explorer and archaeologist
• Hilaire Belloc, author
• William Beveridge, social reformer and economist
• John Buchan, author
• Sir Richard Burton, explorer
• Edward Burne-Jones, artist
• Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), author and academic
• Thomas de Quincey, author
• C B Fry, cricketer
• William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister
• Eglantyne Jebb, founder of the Save the Children Fund
• John Keble, theologian
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet
• William Morris, artist
• Cardinal John Henry Newman, theologian
• Sir Robert Peel, British Prime Minister
• Edward Pusey, theologian
• Eleanor Rathbone, politician and social reformer
• Cecil Rhodes, colonial pioneer, founder of the Rhodes Scholarships
• John Ruskin, author, artist and social reformer
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
• Frederick Soddy, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
• Arnold Toynbee, social philosopher and economist
• Oscar Wilde, playwright

17th & 18th Centuries

• William Henry Drayton, American revolutionary
• John Ford, playwright
• Edward Gibbon, historian
• Edmund Halley, astronomer
• William Harvey, scientist who discovered the circulation of the blood
• Thomas Hobbes, philosopher
• Robert Hooke, scientist
• Dr Samuel Johnson, lexicographer
• John Locke, philosopher
• Sir Richard Lovelace, poet
• James Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia
• William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania
• Adam Smith, political economist
• James Smithson, scientist, founder of the Smithsonian Institution
• Robert Southey, poet   
• Jonathan Swift, author and satirist
• Jethro Tull, agriculturalist and inventor
• John Wesley, founder of Methodism
• John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, poet and courtier
• Sir Christopher Wren, architect
  

15th & 16th Centuries

• Cardinal William Allen
• John Donne, poet
• Erasmus, scholar
• Jerome of Prague, Czech religious reformer
• Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor and martyr
• Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer
• Sir Philip Sidney, poet
• William Tyndale, translator of the Bible
• Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor and churchman, founder of Christ Church

13th & 14th Centuries

• Roger Bacon, scholar
• Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Simon Bredon, mathematician
• William of Ockham, philosopher and theologian
• Duns Scotus, philosopher and theologian
• John Wyclif (Wycliffe), religious reformer  

Facts and Figures

Student Life

• There are almost 20,000 students at Oxford, including 12,106 undergraduates and 7,380 postgraduates.

• Oxford graduates are among the most employable in the UK: our employment rate is above average at 94 per cent.

• Graduates, holding both undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications, enter a wide range of occupations with nearly 80 per cent securing managerial, professional or associate professional posts.

• Over 45 per cent of students completing an undergraduate degree go on to further study compared with a national average of 23 per cent.

• Oxford has the lowest drop-out rate in England: recent figures show that only 1.4 per cent of students discontinue their course, compared with the national rate of 22 per cent.

• Undergraduate students have almost 80 degree courses to choose from. More than half are currently following courses that last four years or more.

• 53 per cent of undergraduates are studying for degrees in humanities and social sciences, and 41 per cent in medical, mathematical, physical and life sciences. The remaining number are studying for undergraduate level diplomas and certificates in a range of subjects offered by the Department for Continuing Education.

• The tutorial is at the core of undergraduate teaching and learning at Oxford. It offers students a unique learning experience in which they meet regularly with their tutor, either on a one-to-one basis or with one or two other students. Undergraduates attend, on average, one hour-long tutorial every week and undertake a considerable number of hours’ preparatory work for each tutorial, including background reading, essay-writing and problem-solving.

• At graduate level, 37 per cent of students are studying for higher degrees in the medical, mathematical physical and life sciences and 57 per cent in the humanities and social sciences. The remaining students are studying with the Department for Continuing Education for postgraduate certificates and diplomas in subjects as diverse as Architectural History, Object Technology, Mathematical Finance and Bioinformatics.

• Every year more than 15,000 people take part in courses offered by the Department for Continuing Education.

Undergraduate Access and Admissions

• The number of undergraduate applications to Oxford has more than doubled in the last 30 years, from 6,300 in 1976 to 13,639 in 2006.
• In recent years, Oxford has received, on average, four applications for each available place.
• Using one of the most rigorous and transparent admissions systems in the UK, staff at Oxford spend around 36,000 hours each year selecting students. 800 college tutors dedicate a week of their working year to this important task.
• Around 80 per cent of applicants from the UK and Europe are invited for an interview at Oxford. Interviews also take place in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, North America and Singapore.
• Currently, 99.8 per cent of successful applicants go on to achieve A-level scores of AAB or better, with an A grade in the subject equivalent to that which they propose to study. The average A-level points score achieved by new entrants is 29.9.
• Oxford’s bursary scheme, the Oxford Opportunity Bursaries, is one of the most generous undergraduate bursary schemes in the UK. It is worth up to £10,300 for a three year course or £13,450 for a four year degree course.
• In its first year of operation (2006-7) almost 700 bursaries worth nearly £2 million were awarded to students.
• Oxford spent over 35 per cent of its additional fee income in 2006-7 on bursaries for lower income students, compared with a sector average of only 25 per cent.
• On average, Oxford holds at least one access activity every working day of the year. These include summer schools, school visits, student shadowing schemes, e-mentoring, aspiration days and events for teachers.
• More than 10,000 students visit one of Oxford’s 200 open days each year and our staff and students make over 500 visits to schools.
• For 2007 entry, 53.5 per cent of successful UK applicants applying directly from school came from the maintained (state) sector.

Graduate Admissions

• Each year the University receives 12,000 applications for postgraduate study.

• More graduates than undergraduates are now admitted to the University each year.

• Graduates make up 37 per cent of the total student body.

• 63 per cent of graduate students at Oxford are from outside the UK.

• At graduate level, 62 per cent of students are studying for a higher degree by research, and 38 per cent are following postgraduate taught courses.

• Oxford is responding to the demands of students and employers by developing a range of new taught masters courses, many of which cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries. These include: African Studies, Biomedical Engineering, Clinical Embryology, Financial Economics, Film Aesthetics, Global Governance and Diplomacy, Medicinal Chemistry for Cancer, Modern Japanese Studies, and Nanotechnology.

Oxford International

• Leading academics come to Oxford from all over the world. New professors have recently joined the University from institutions such as the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yale University, Princeton University, the University of Amsterdam, and Johns Hopkins University.

• Oxford’s university community is truly international: 28 per cent of teaching and research staff and 43 per cent of research-only staff are from overseas. A third of students are citizens of foreign countries, including 14 per cent of full-time undergraduates and 63 per cent of full-time graduate students.

• Students come to Oxford from 139 countries and territories, creating a vibrant and diverse student community. The largest groups of international students come from the USA (1,413), China and Hong Kong (699), Germany (572), Canada (349), and India (257).

• Oxford has more than a dozen centres and institutes specialising in the study of specific countries and regions.

• Oxford is the leading centre for the study of China in Europe and has one of the top five departments in the world in Japanese Studies.

• Oxford is one of the leading centres for the study of globalisation, through the James Martin 21st Century School, the Programme on Global Economic Governance, the Department of International Development (which created the world’s first refugee studies programme), and our global health programmes,

• Oxford’s Centre for Tropical Medicine conducts cutting edge research at its laboratories in Kenya, Vietnam and Thailand.

• Oxford boasts one of the most extensive global alumni networks in the world, with 160 branches in over 60 countries.

• Oxford University Press, publisher of the famous dictionaries and a department of the University, is the world’s largest university press, with a presence in over 50 countries.

• The University has offices in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Oxford Colleges

• The University has 39 independent and self-governing colleges, and 7 permanent private halls.

• The collegiate system is at the heart of the University’s success, giving students and academics the benefits of belonging to both a large, internationally renowned institution and to a small, interdisciplinary academic community. It brings together leading academics and students across subjects and year groups, and from different cultures and countries.

• The relatively small number of students at each college allows for close and supportive personal attention to be given to the induction, academic development and welfare of individual students.

• St Catherine’s College, which takes both undergraduate and graduate students, currently has the largest number of students (699), while one of the graduate-only colleges and a number of permanent private halls have fewer than a hundred student members.

• Colleges invest heavily in facilities including extensive library and IT provision, accommodation and welfare support, and sports and social facilities.

• 30 colleges and all 7 halls admit students for both graduate and undergraduate degrees. Green, Linacre, Nuffield, St Antony’s, St Cross, Templeton, and Wolfson Colleges admit only graduate students, as does Kellogg College, which supports the lifelong learning work of the University for adult, part-time, and professional development students. All Souls is unique among Oxford colleges because it has no junior members: all are Fellows (except the Warden).

• The University’s oldest colleges are University College, Balliol College, and Merton College, all of which were established by the 13th century.

• Harris Manchester College, which offers Oxford degree courses solely to mature students, is the University’s newest college and gained full college status in 1996.

• St Hilda’s is the only women’s college in Oxford, although from October 2008 it will accept both men and women.

Oxford Research

• Oxford has more academic staff working in world-class research departments (rated 5 and 5* in the 2001 National Research Assessment Exercise) than any other UK university.

• At graduate level, 62 per cent of students are studying for a higher degree by research.

• Oxford won more research income from external sponsors than any other UK university in 2006–7, earning over £248.2 million. When £98 million of grants from HEFCE are taken into consideration, Oxford’s overall annual research income exceeds £346 million, the highest research income of any UK university.

• A new £5 million-a-year funding initiative for young academics and pilot projects has been set up to encourage creativity and attract new research talent to Oxford. The John Fell OUP Research Fund, funded by Oxford University Press, will encourage new research initiatives in all subject areas, and particularly in interdisciplinary fields.

• Oxford, through Isis Innovation Limited, our wholly owned technology transfer company, pioneered the successful commercial exploitation of academic research and invention. It has created almost 60 companies since it was established in 1988, and files, on average, one patent application each week. .

• The combined value of Oxford’s spin-out companies has reached £2 billion, using quoted market capitalisations and investor valuations for unquoted companies.

Oxford Awards

• Oxford’s academic community includes over 70 Fellows of the Royal Society and around 90 Fellows of the British Academy.

• In 2007, nine Oxford academics were elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy. This represented almost a quarter of new Fellowships awarded in this year, and was more than from any other institution.

• In 2007, three Oxford researchers were elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, and four to the Academy of Medical Sciences.

• The successes of Oxford’s academics are recognised regularly in the award of prestigious international prizes. The Gairdner International Award for achievements in medical research was awarded in 2007 to Professor Kim Nasmyth, and a Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research was presented to Professor Sir Ed Southern in 2005.

• Six University centres have received the biennial Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at Oxford University Press (2007), Clinical Trial Service Unit (2005), Refugee Studies Centre (2002), Centre for Clinical Vaccinology & Tropical Medicine (2000), Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (1996), and Isis Innovation Ltd (1994).

• Oxford was ranked joint second in the world in the Times Higher Education Supplement’s World University Rankings 2007.

• Oxford is repeatedly ranked in the top ten of universities worldwide in the annual tables compiled by Shanghai Jiaotong University.

• In May 2007, Oxford University topped The Guardian’s UK rankings for the third consecutive year.

• Oxford was named Britain’s top university for the sixth year running in the Times Good University Guide (August 2007).

• In the Financial Times 2007 ranking of MBA programmes, the University’s Saïd Business School was ranked in the top twenty in the world and third in the UK. This follows the School’s success in HM Treasury’s 2005 ranking of the top 50 MBA programmes in the world, in which it was rated number one in the UK.

Oxford and Business

• Oxford University is a founder member of the Oxfordshire Economic Partnership, a network of public and private sector partners committed to building a world-class economy in Oxfordshire.

• Isis Innovation Limited, the University’s wholly owned technology transfer company, has created almost 60 companies since it was established in 1988. It files, on average, one patent application each week and manages over 400 patent application families and 200 licence agreements.

• The combined value of Oxford’s spin-out companies has reached £2 billion, using quoted market capitalisations and investor valuations for unquoted companies.

• Oxford University Consulting manages some 150 consulting projects at any one time and has around 450 leading academics registered to provide their expertise to external organisations.

• The collegiate University is the second largest employer in Oxfordshire. The University, the Colleges, Oxford University Press and University spin-out companies support over 18,000 jobs directly or indirectly.

• In the Financial Times 2007 ranking of MBA programmes, the University’s Saïd Business School was ranked in the top twenty in the world and third in the UK. This follows the School’s success in HM Treasury’s 2005 ranking of the top 50 MBA programmes in the world, in which it was rated number one in the UK.

• Oxford Entrepreneurs is the largest student entrepreneur society in the UK, with over 1,200 members, one in ten of whom are running their own companies.

• Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world, with a presence in more than 50 countries and 4,750 employees worldwide.

Oxford Finance

• In 2006–7, total University income was £676.4 million, while that of the Colleges amounted to £251.9 million. In the same year, OUP's turnover was £453 million.
• Oxford won more research income from external sponsors than any other UK university in 2006–7, earning over £248.2 million (36 per cent of total income). When £98 million of grants from HEFCE are taken into consideration, Oxford’s overall annual research income exceeds £346 million, the highest research income of any UK university.
• Of the remaining income, 27 per cent came from grants from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Teaching and Development Agency; 14 per cent from academic fees and support grants; and 23 per cent from other sources including trading activities and investments.
• Total University expenditure in 2006–7 was £674 million.
• In the last financial year, University endowment assets were approximately £680 million.
• In 2006–7, income from those endowments and investments came to £17.6 million.
• Colleges manage their own endowments, which amount in total to some £2.7 billion.

Museums, Collections and Libraries

• Oxford has the largest university library system in the UK, with over one hundred libraries.

• Oxford University Library Services, which manages most of the main University libraries, holds over 11 million printed items, and vast quantities of materials in many other formats.

• The Bodleian Library, the University’s main research library, is the second largest in the UK after the British Library. It has 120 miles of occupied shelving, 29 reading rooms and 2,490 places for readers.

• Around 60 per cent of new registrations to the Bodleian Library each year are from people outside the University.

• More than a million people visit the University’s six museums and collections every year.

• Established in 1683, the Ashmolean Museum is the oldest museum in the UK and one of the oldest in the world. It houses the University’s extensive collections of art and antiquities, ranging back over four millennia.

• The Museum of the History of Science is housed in the world’s oldest surviving purpose-built museum building. It contains the world’s finest collection of historic scientific instruments.

• The University Museum of Natural History houses the University's collections of zoological, entomological, palaeontological and mineral specimens. With 4.5 million specimens it is the largest collection of its type outside of the national collections.

• The Pitt Rivers Museum holds one of the world’s finest collections of anthropology and archaeology, with objects from every continent and from throughout human history.

• The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Britain, and forms the most compact yet diverse collection of plants in the world.

• The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments celebrates the history and development of the musical instruments of the Western Classical tradition, from the medieval period to
• present day

• The University Year

  

  The academic year at Oxford runs from October to June. The year is divided into three eight week terms, Michaelmas (autumn), Hilary (spring), and Trinity (summer).

  Dates of Term
  

  Major events which take place during the academic year include:

  • The Boat Race
  • Varsity Rugby Match
  • Encaenia, the ceremony at which the University awards honorary degrees to distinguished men and women and commemorates its benefactors.
  • Degree days, at which students graduate, take place throughout the year, as do undergraduate open days.

  

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