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

19th Century

17th & 18th Centuries

15th & 16th Centuries

13th & 14th Centuries

Facts and Figures

Student Life

• 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

Graduate Admissions

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Museums, Collections and 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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