Overview

Overview

University of oxford is located in the England, United Kingdom and works with the motto of ?The Lord is my Light?. It is a collegiate research university and was set up in 1250. University of Oxford is also known as Oxford University or Oxford. Oxford University comes in the top ten universities of the world.

Worldwide the university is ranked# 5 as per the QS world rankings, #2 The Times/Sunday Times, ranked the university on #2 and The Guardian, ranked it on #2.

In UK some of the courses like, Art and Design, East and South Asian Studies, Medicine, Music, Philosophy and Politics have been ranked first by the Guide rankings.

Campus

The campus of the university is huge and provides all possible facilities to the students. It has the best library in the country. It has the best campus and facilities as compared to the other universities in United Kingdom. The campus of the university has spanersity in colors and cultures with students coming from across the globe who bring the colors and the cultures of their country and take away the best educational experience with them.

The campus is surrounded with the natural greenery with university parks and Botanic Garden. The university parks cover 70 acres of the space. Botanic garden contains 8000 different plant species on 1.8 hectares.

The campus of this university has many laboratories, center and museum like Diabetes Research Laboratories, International Gender Studies Centre, Health Economics Research Centre, Botnar Research Centre, Phonetics laboratory, Centre for linguistics and Philology, Pitt Rivers Museum, Refugee Studies Centre, Museum of the History of Sciences, Centre of Visual studies.

Colleges

The University of Oxford has 38 colleges in which top 10 colleges are:-

• All Souls college
  
• Nuffield College
  
• St Johns College
  
• Christ Church
  
• The Queen?s College
  
• Merton College
  
• Magdalen College
  
• Jesus College
  
• Corpus Christi College
  
• Trinity College
  

Departments

Oxford houses these departments:

• Experimental Psychology
  
• Social policy and Intervention
  
• Zoology
  
• Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
  
• History of Art
  
• Politics and International Studies
  
• Buddhist Studies
  
• Earth sciences
  
• Materials
  
• Pediatrics
  

Teaching Standards  

The teaching standard of the university is beyond excellence, and the faculty is highly qualified. With the experiments and exceptional courses that the college is taking up, the teaching staff has provided their full support. Also, they guide their students completely on the various researches they do.

Courses

There are plenty courses offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. They include?

• Yiddish
  
• Oriental Studies
  
• Media
  
• Hebrew
  
• Nanotechnology
  
• LLB
  
• Journalism
  
• Irish
  
• History and Modern Languages
  
• Archaeology and Anthropology
  

Student Facilities

The student organization at University of Oxford works closely with campus programs to make a fun filed life for the students. This further brings together the entire campus along with teachers, students, staff members and alumni. Students study in the campus and get the opportunity to participate in various activities and seminars, etc. to gain some new and fruitful experiences. There are so many clubs and societies for the students where they can chill out. Some of the annual events of the university are Lighting of the Quad, First Night, Spring Fair, video game tournaments and Fall Fest.

Accommodation

There is an option for on-campus and off-campus housing in this university. On-campus housing comes with an added feature of the sumptuous dining facility, bar, common sitting room. Visitors and smoking is not permitted in the bedrooms.

Alumni

Few names who have made the University feel proud are- Stephen Hawking, Tim Berners- Lee, Aung Sang Suu Kyi, T. S. Eliot, J.R.R. Tolkien, T. E. Lawrence, and Sir Walter Raleigh. These are some of the noted alumni who have taken the name of the University of Oxford to the next level of success and recognition across the country. These people are from different industries like art, journalism, media, culinary, architecture, business, sports, Laureates, politics, writers, scientists, etc.

Scholarships

On the basis of merit, interest, talents and special need, scholarships are granted to the students. Some of the scholarship programs are:-

• Oxford Graduate Scholarships
  
• IDB-Oxford Clarendon Scholarships
  
• Dulverton Scholarships
  
• Oppenheimer Fund Scholarships
  
• China Oxford Scholarship Fund
  
• Frost Scholarship Program (Florida)
  

Students must meet the eligibility criteria in order to achieve the scholarships.