Oxford University
Ancient English institution
Oxford University is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, located in Oxford, England, with teaching documented as early as 1096.
It operates through a collegiate system where students belong to one of roughly forty self-governing colleges that provide housing, tutorials, and social life while the central university handles examinations and degrees.
Oxford consistently ranks among the world's top universities and has educated numerous prime ministers, Nobel laureates, and Rhodes Scholars.
She's reading history at Oxford.
- collegesHigher learning institutions
- tutorialsInstructional guides for beginners
- Nobel laureatesRecipients of prestigious Swedish awards
- puntingSurrendering possession via kick
- Indira GandhiIndia's first female premier
Bill Clinton · Malala Yousafzai · T.S. Eliot · Oscar Wilde · PPE · high table · Stephen Hawking · dreaming spires · Margaret Thatcher · royal charters · student unions · town and gown · boat race · blazers · Rhodes · Rhodes Scholar · Latin · rowing
- British InstitutionsBritish Museum, British Library, Bank of England, House of Lords, House of Commons
- European cultural institutionsLouvre, British Museum, Uffizi, Prado, Vatican Museums
- World UniversitiesCambridge, Sorbonne, McGill
- Thames ValleyThames, Henley-on-Thames, Abingdon, Wallingford, Marlow
- OxbridgeOxbridge, Exeter, Hertford, Lincoln, Merton
- TractarianismNewman, Anglo-Catholic, high church, reserve
Oxford Universitycommunity college
Two-year public institution
diploma mill · for-profit college · vocational school · night school · correspondence course
Oxford Universitypolytechnic
Applied sciences institution
online university · technical institute · vocational school · trade school · MIT