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UNIVERSITY OF COLLEGES A GUIDE TO OXFORD’S COLLEGES AND HALLS CONTENTS WHEN IT COMES TO CHOOSING A COLLEGE, 01 INTRODUCTION 02 GETTING STARTED THERE ARE NUMEROUS THINGS TO CONSIDER. 03 MAKING A CHOICE 04 BALLIOL COLLEGE FIRST AND FOREMOST, AN UNDERSTANDING 05 BRASENOSE COLLEGE 06 CAMPION HALL OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY’S COLLEGIATE SYSTEM 07 CHRIST CHURCH WILL PROVIDE A FOUNDATION ON WHICH TO 08 CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE 09 EXETER COLLEGE BASE AN INFORMED CHOICE. THE FOLLOWING 10 GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE 11 HARRIS MANCHESTER COLLEGE INTRODUCTION GIVES AN IDEA OF HOW THE 12 HERTFORD COLLEGE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITY WORK TOGETHER 13 JESUS COLLEGE 14 KEBLE COLLEGE AND WHAT FACTORS MIGHT AFFECT STUDENTS’ 15 KELLOGG COLLEGE 16 LADY MARGARET HALL COLLEGE CHOICES. SUBSEQUENT PAGES 17 LINACRE COLLEGE PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF EACH COLLEGE 18 LINCOLN COLLEGE 19 MAGDALEN COLLEGE AND THEIR VITAL STATISTICS. 20 MANSFIELD COLLEGE 21 MERTON COLLEGE 22 NEW COLLEGE 23 ORIEL COLLEGE 24 PEMBROKE COLLEGE 25 REGENT’S PARK COLLEGE 26 ST ANNE’S COLLEGE 27 ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 28 ST CROSS COLLEGE 29 ST EDMUND HALL 30 ST HILDA’S COLLEGE 31 ST HUGH’S COLLEGE 32 ST JOHN’S COLLEGE 33 ST PETER’S COLLEGE 34 THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE 35 COLLEGE 36 WADHAM COLLEGE 37 WOLFSON COLLEGE 38 WORCESTER COLLEGE 39 NEXT STEPS 40 COLLEGES TABLE 42 COLLEGES TABLE KEY / COLLEGES MAP

00 Contents A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 01 Introducton A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls What is a college? MSc, MLitt, and DPhil £1,900-£2,320. The EMBA college membership fee is The collegiate system, considered to be at the heart of Oxford University’s included in the overall programme cost. success, affords students the benefits of belonging to both a large, Will I have a college tutor and what will they do? internationally renowned institution – the University – and a smaller, Your college will have a Tutor for Graduates who overseas all graduate members interdisciplinary academic college community. Colleges and Halls select of the college. Teaching and supervision takes place in a student’s academic graduate students after they are admitted by Oxford University. This means that, department (the Business School) but every graduate has a college adviser in addition to being a member of a University Department (in this case, the Saïd who is chosen from among the Fellows (the University’s academic body). Business School), students are also members of one of Oxford’s many colleges Advisers do not teach their wards but in most cases will have experience of How many colleges are there to choose from? teaching graduate students. An adviser can therefore often help a graduate GETTING Oxford University is made up of 38 independent, co-ed colleges and six MAKING sort out difficulties with studies or with a course as well as helping with purely permanent private halls, which largely run their own affairs, have their own college difficulties. funds and have a strong intellectual and social life. The six Permanent Private STARTED A CHOICE Which colleges are good for networking? Halls (PPH) function largely like colleges, accepting students from This entirely depends on your interests and outlook. You might consider the multiple disciplines but they have Christian founders and some have an number of Business School students attending a college to be a deciding factor enduring religious character. The majority of colleges and halls accept graduates but this may very well turn out to be one of the less important aspects, not least and undergraduates but seven take only graduate students; 35 accept students as you will be spending much of your time with Saïd students during your from Saïd Business School. Colleges average 200-500 members and the total studies. Belonging to one of Oxford’s colleges affords students and alumni the number of students spread across the University is 20,000 including around benefits of the University’s reach, which extends far beyond the Saïd Business 11,700 undergraduates and around 8,100 postgraduates. School and its networks. Each Oxford college has its own community of experts What does a college do for me? and many colleges have a regular programme of distinguished visiting speakers. Think of a college as a home. Colleges and Halls can provide accommodation*, Chance encounters and connections made outside the business field often meals, common rooms, libraries, sports and social facilities, pastoral care, produce the most useful contacts – in many respects this is why Oxford’s unique health and welfare for their students. The University supervises exams, awards collegiate system is so widely successful. A college’s focus (is it strong in the degrees, determines the content of courses and organises lectures and seminars. arts, sciences or sports?) will probably be more useful when deciding on what All colleges are now co-ed, some with specific strengths of discipline (medical kinds of students you want to surround yourself with. science, languages, literature etc). How long will it take to get from the School to the college? *Not all colleges and halls Do I have to be a member of a college and why? “MCR” – Middle Common Room. The term refers to This might be a key factor in deciding which college to choose. Oxford is offer accommodation to Unless you are applying for a non-matriculated course (as a visiting student Saïd Business School both a university or student small and most colleges are no more than about a 15-minutes walk from who will not be awarded a degree by the University), you will need a college students and where it is body as well as the physical the city centre and Saïd Business School. However, much of the graduate place. So you have to be a member of a college (or a PPH) to attend the provided it is usually space they are able to accommodation is off-site and can therefore be slightly further from central but you gain membership after you have been offered a allocated on a first come congregate socially. Oxford. (See each college entry for specific details). first served basis. place on a programme of study rather than it being a prerequisite. The University So, the Senior Common and the colleges go hand in hand; one cannot exist without the other. Room (SCR) is for Am I guaranteed accommodation? academics/faculty, the You can either rent privately or apply for college accommodation*. Some Will my choice of college affect the teaching process? Middle Common Room colleges offer accommodation to individuals, couples and/or families. This may Teaching is done centrally at the Saïd Business School and not the colleges. (MCR) is for post-grads be on campus, within the college grounds or located around Oxford (see each Your choice of college does not affect the teaching you will receive. and Junior Common Room college entry for specific details). What does the college membership fee pay for? (JCR) is for under-grads. The standard of the accommodation and distance from the college site and the It covers academic facilities and other services provided by your college. The fee In the following college Business School will vary greatly for each college. If accommodation is not does not include accommodation or meal charges and is payable in addition to pages “common room” offered by your college, you will need to make alternative private arrangements. the University tuition fee. Each college sets its own fee, although rates do not refers to the MCR. The School can assist you in sourcing alternative accommodation but does not vary greatly between individual colleges. As a guide, the college fees for 2008– guarantee to find it for you and will not arrange that accommodation on your behalf. 09 were: MBA £3,000; All other Diplomas, Certificates, Masters, BPhil, MPhil,

02 Getting started A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 03 Making a choice A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1263, Balliol is one of the University’s oldest colleges. It has a VIEW MAP Founded in 1509 Brasenose is one of the University’s oldest colleges, and very strong graduate community with representatives of all disciplines. Some celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2009. It’s located on Radcliffe Square, 65-75 graduate students are admitted each year and Balliol has one of Oxford’s at the very heart of the University and has particular strengths in molecular foremost Graduate Centres with an active academic and social life driven by a biology, medicine, engineering, law and ancient history. It is also known for its large, lively and international community. The college has an acclaimed library sporting tradition (with a strong rugby team) and well-respected music and arts with an in depth collection of 19th and 20th century scholarly texts and some societies. Its annual arts festival is one of Oxford’s most extensive. Graduate 400 medieval manuscripts. Balliol is also the only Oxford College to have its own students make up just under a third of the student population. bridge club. Focus of college: Multi-disciplinary. Focus of college: Multi-disciplinary. Undergraduate students: 360 Undergraduate students: 400 Graduate students: 190 Graduate students: 200 Distance from SBS: About 10 minutes walk. Distance from SBS: Broad Street, in the heart of the city, within easy reach of rail, coach, bus stations; about 10 minutes walk from Saïd Business School. College facilities: Extensive library, computer room, boathouse (the College Boat Club is the oldest in the world), sports ground, including tennis and College facilities: Dining room, common room, bar, TV room, computer room, squash courts, satellite TV in various languages, chapel. nursery and chapel. BALLIOL BRASENOSE College dining facilities: Students can purchase breakfast, lunch and dinner COLLEGE College dining facilities: Students can purchase lunch and dinner, held at the COLLEGE (formal and informal) in hall (on the main college site). college’s central dining hall. Balliol College, Radcliffe Square, Accommodation: Not guaranteed but usually provided for first-year graduates Oxford OX1 3BJ Accommodation: Most first-year graduate students are guaranteed Oxford OX1 4AJ following two or three-year courses. Priority given to research degree. +44 (0)1865 277748 accommodation, thereafter rooms are assigned by ballot. There are places for +44 (0)1865 277510 Accommodation is at the St Cross annex 1.5 miles from Saïd Business School, 80 single graduates at Holywell Manor (Balliol’s Graduate Centre, one mile from and at Hollybush Row, under five minutes’ walk away. Accommodation at Interesting fact: SBS) where two thirds of students live. Most rooms contain their own washbasin; Interesting fact: St Cross is laid out in clusters of five bed-sitting rooms with two communal In the 1960s Balliol toilets, showers and kitchenettes are communal. There have been several showers and a well-equipped kitchen. Accommodation at Hollybush Row is students led an abortive interpretations of in single rooms with en-suite bathrooms and a shared kitchen. Each room is coup in which the Married graduates/families: Accommodation in five flats on Iffley Road. Oxford’s oddest college equipped with a computer outlet and a landline telephone point. college was seized and name. One is that it’s renamed the “People’s Average accommodation charges: £1,600 per term (14.6 weeks). derived from ‘brasen Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. Republic of Balliol”. huis’ (brewhouse) Scholarships: Balliol advertises a relatively large number of scholarships for Since then it has been but the most likely Average accommodation charges: £103-£109 per week. graduate study every year, many of which are offered in conjunction with the associated with leftist/ explanation is that University’s Clarendon Fund Graduate Student Awards. Scholarships: Available. liberal student activism it refers to a ‘brazen’ (alumni like Boris (brass or bronze) door Johnson and Chris Please check the college website for further information: www.balliolmcr.com knocker in the shape Please check the college website for further information: www.bnc.ox.ac.uk Patterson not or balliol.ox.ac.uk of a nose found in the Informal information for graduates: www.hcr.bnc.ox.ac.uk withstanding). college Hall. Most Balliol’s students students however, are traditionally very know the college simply politically active and as “BNC”. it has three former UK prime ministers as alumni.

04 Balliol College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 05 Brasenose College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1896, Campion Hall is the home of University of Oxford’s Jesuit VIEW MAP Founded in 1524, Christ Church is one of the largest colleges in the University. academic community. This Hall is based in the city centre and has a very The college buildings are among Oxford’s most iconic, located right in the city international student body, with members representing countries from across centre bordering a meadow (complete with cows), which runs down to the River the world. Almost all of them are studying for postgraduate degrees. The Hall Thames. This wealthy, hamlet-like college includes the city’s largest quad and is owned and run by the Society of Jesuits but its community also includes the Cathedral Church for the Anglican Diocese of Oxford, within its stately realm. priests of other orders and congregations, as well a select laymen. It is a This diocese has an internationally renowned choir and organist. The Christ small community, currently just 30 people, including both faculty and students. Church Graduate Common Room (GCR) runs an active social programme, The Hall has a library with a fine collection of theology and philosophy books. including speaker nights, guest dinners, parties and cultural excursions.

Focus of college: Strong in theology and philosophy. Focus of college: Multi-disciplinary. The college has a strong sporting tradition and excels in rugby and rowing. It also has a strong tradition of students joining Undergraduate students: 1 musical and political societies.

Graduate students: 10 Undergraduate students: 260

Distance from SBS: Under a mile away (10-15 minutes walk). Graduate students: 413

College facilities: Library, chapel, dining room, washing facilities, common Distance from SBS: About 10 minutes walk. rooms. College facilities: Christ Church has one of the largest college libraries in Oxford CAMPION HALL College dining facilities: Three meals a day are provided as part of the CHRIST with well over 160,000 books. There is a graduate computer room, printing Brewer Street, accommodation charge. CHURCH facilities and internet access, study rooms, a music room, squash and tennis Oxford OX 1QS courts, a boathouse and sports ground. Common Room: TV, DVD, Stereo Accommodation: All the students are allocated single study-bedrooms within St Aldate’s, +44 (0)1865 286100 systems, magazines, periodicals, . the Hall. All have phone and Ethernet connections, and washbasins; some have Oxford OX1 1DP been adapted for disabled users. Bathrooms are communal. +44 (0)1865 276158 Interesting fact: College dining facilities: In hall (separate table for graduates) or in the GCR. Campion Hall’s current Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. Interesting fact: Accommodation: Subject to availability at St Aldate’s Quad, opposite the structure was designed , which college. College rooms are private study bedrooms with a shared bathroom and by Edwin Lutyens, the Average accommodation charges: £30 a day. stands over Christ kitchens. Flats of three to four single rooms with shared kitchen and bathroom: 20th century British Church’s main about 40 rooms available in total. Steward’s accommodation: two houses in architect who was Scholarships: None; bursaries for select international Jesuit students. entrance, was designed West and , shared between seven students, charged on a nightly responsible for the by Sir Christopher basis. Flats available in East Oxford but not guaranteed for graduates. Treasury design and city Please check the college website for further information: www.campion.ox.ac.uk Wren. It houses accommodation: Shared flats. planning of New a seven-ton bell, Dehli, India. said to be the loudest Married graduates/families: Accommodation available but not guaranteed. in Oxford. Treasury accommodation: one or two room flats.

Average accommodation charges: £980 approx per term in college room.

Scholarships: bursaries and grants available.

Please check the college website for further information: www.chch.ox.ac.uk

06 Campion Hall A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 07 Christ Church A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1517, Corpus Christi is one of Oxford’s smallest colleges, set in VIEW MAP Founded in 1314, Exeter College is one of the oldest in the University. Right in distinctive 16th and 18th century buildings surrounded by peaceful meadows the heart of the city centre, it has a garden overlooking Radcliffe Square. This but just a five-minute walk from the city centre. It combines a high intellectual mid-sized college has traditionally been one of the more progressive in that its reputation with a friendly community life and has strong commitment to hierarchy has been female-dominated. It is the fourth oldest college in Oxford graduates. The College’s international reputation for research and supportive with a Jacobean dining hall and Victorian Gothic chapel. About two-thirds of collegiate structure makes Corpus an ideal environment for graduate study. graduate students are international. There is a special programme for married The wood panelled MCR is a hub for graduates and the Committee organises graduates and the college goes to great lengths to bring graduates and frequent entertainments, theatre trips, guest dinners and other functions undergraduates together for a wide range of activities. throughout the year. Many graduates join College sports teams. Focus of college: Multi-disciplinary. Active and varied sports clubs (including Focus of college: Classics, philosophy, law, politics, history, economics, rugby and rowing). sciences, english, psychology; sports ( and women’s rugby teams) plus literary, music and drama societies. Undergraduate students: 330

Undergraduate students: 240 Graduate students: 180

Graduate students: 115 Distance from SBS: About 10 minutes walk.

Distance from SBS: About 10 minutes walk. College facilities: Library, middle common room (MCR), with network connections, dining hall, college bar, computer room, music room, gym, CORPUS College facilities: 24-hour access library, common room with computer and EXETER sporting clubs, college choir, chapel. CHRISTI tea making facilities, chapel, dining hall, choir, computer room, beer cellar, COLLEGE squash court. College dining facilities: Three meals a day are available in the college hall COLLEGE Turl Street, during term time; lunch is available in the MCR outside term time. Merton Street, College dining facilities: Meals are provided in the college dining hall. MCR Oxford OX1 3DP Oxford OX1 4JF members can lunch with the Fellows of the college every Monday in term, +44 (0)1865 279648 Accommodation: Exeter House (1.3 miles/25 minutes walk from the Business +44 (0)1865 276737 and can dine at High Table twice each year. School, on Iffley Road). 43 study-bedrooms (all with high-speed network Interesting fact: connections), seven shared kitchens, TV and video lounge, laundry. Eight flats Interesting fact: Accommodation: Provided for at least two years of graduate studies. Recently Exeter College is and houses around Oxford. Corpus Christi has built college annex: all rooms are single bed-sits with washbasins and shared famous in fiction. It is an impressive 16th bathrooms and kitchens. 35 rooms on the central site have recently been said to be the basis for Married graduates/families: Accommodation subject to availability in eight flats century library, which refurbished and provide en-suite facilities. Internet access in every room. Jordan College, created and houses around Oxford. Disabled facilities available on the main site and the classical scholar by Philip Pullman (an Iffley Road site. Erasmus once called Married graduates/families: Limited family/married accommodation available alumnus) in his novel Average accommodation charges: Rooms: £95-£125 per week. Flats/houses: a ‘wonder of the world’. but not guaranteed. Northern Lights. It is also the place where £6,500-£8,000 for 11 months. Average accommodation charges: £12-£14 per night. Inspector Morse drew Scholarships: One available for graduates from Ireland. his last breath. J.R.R. Scholarships: Various including the Senior Scholarship competition held Tolkein is a notable annually and the Garside Scholarship in Mathematics, awarded biennially. literary alumnus, along Please check the college website for further information: www.exeter.ox.ac.uk with Martin Amis, Alan Please check the college website for further information: www.ccc.ox.ac.uk Bennett and athlete Roger Bannister.

08 Corpus Christi College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 09 Exeter College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 2008, Green Templeton College (GTC) is a graduate college. VIEW MAP Founded in 1786, Harris Manchester is dedicated solely to mature students, The University of Oxford’s newest college, GTC is international in membership and accepts both graduates and undergraduates from the age of 21 with no and outlook and it has an intellectual agenda that focuses on issues relating upper age limit. Priority is given to graduate applicants over the age of 25 and to human welfare. The college is based just outside the city centre, in North this makes for one of the most diverse student bodies at Oxford University. It is Oxford at the elegant 18th Century Radcliffe Observatory site. It has strong links also Oxford’s smallest college, located centrally next to the and to industry and practitioners not always evident in Oxford colleges. In an effort to there is an intimate, friendly atmosphere, with lots of peer support. The diversity create an atmosphere of equality, students and fellows mix freely at GTC, sharing of the students in terms of age, culture and background makes Harris one common room and a dining room with no designated ‘high table’. Manchester’s an interesting and vibrant college community.

Focus of college: Subjects relating to human welfare and social, economic, Focus of college: Broadly multidisciplinary. Renowned basketball team. and environmental well-being, including medical sciences, management and Sports affiliation with Wadham College. most social sciences. Undergraduate students: 90 Undergraduate students: 0 Graduate students: 52 (+60 DClinPsych students) Graduate students: 470 Distance from SBS: Approx 10-15 minutes walk. Distance from SBS: About 15 minutes walk. College facilities: Dining Hall, small shared kitchens, common rooms, a bar, College facilities: Computer rooms, library, on site facilities for tennis, squash corporate membership of two health clubs in Oxford for all students, giving GREEN and gym. Active boat club with college boathouse at Longbridges. College HARRIS access to classes, gym and swimming pool, college punt (The Royle Yacht), TEMPLETON societies include a music society with choir and orchestra, a wine society, MANCHESTER college choir, music lessons, several libraries, college IT centre, dedicated COLLEGE and a book club. COLLEGE computer room for graduates in the GCR. The MCR is located in the graduate house, which also contains a kitchen for graduate students. Woodstock Road, College dining facilities: Lunch is available Monday-Friday in the Observatory Mansfield Road, Oxford OX2 6HG Dining Room. Formal dinners are on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and some Fridays. Oxford OX1 3TD College dining facilities: Accommodation charges include meals during term +44 (0)1865 274770 +44 (0)1865 271009 time (breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday-Friday, breakfast on Saturday and Accommodation: A range of options, usually provided for two years: Single rooms brunch on Sunday in the college’s central dining hall); Self-catering only Interesting fact: on site or in the St Margaret’s Road annexes about (1.3 miles/25 minutes walk Interesting fact: available in vacations. Green Templeton from The School). Shared and self-contained flats at Rewley Court, next Always adaptable College may be new, to The School. All rooms have access to kitchen facilities. There are a few rooms to changing Accommodation: Guaranteed minimum of one year’s accommodation in single but it builds on the specifically adapted for those with mobility problems. circumstances, study bedrooms, on the college site. There are about 50 study bedrooms in the legacy left by its the College moved 17th Century houses and 27 in the new buildings. All have network connections, component colleges: Married graduates/families: A number of self-contained flats and houses location five times: hand basins and access to shared bathrooms. Green College and bordering the college site for married graduates and those with families. from Manchester Templeton College, There are several houses with study rooms and houses on St Margaret Road, (1786-1803) to York Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. which merged in five minutes’ walk north of the college. (1803-40), back to Average accommodation charges: £160 per week including meals in term time. 2007, a first for Manchester (1840- Average accommodation charges: Single rooms £350-£620 per month. Flats £70 per week room – only in vacations. Oxford University. 1853), then to to share £390-£465 per month. Self-contained flats and houses £640-£1,015 (1853-1889) and per month. Scholarships: There are a number of scholarships and prizes available. Book finally to Oxford allowance for every student, funding available for conferences, research visits Scholarships: GTC is offering an expanding range of high-value scholarships. in 1889. and field trips. Smaller academic prizes and travel grants are also available through the year.

Please check the college website for further information: www.hmc.ox.ac.uk Please check the college website for further information: www.gtc.ox.ac.uk

10 Green Templeton College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 11 Harris Manchester College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1282, Hertford is located in the city centre opposite the imposing VIEW MAP Established by Queen Elizabeth I in 1571 as a Welsh foundation, Jesus College Bodleian Library. Traditionally it has been seen as a very progressive college. has a lively, friendly and international graduate community that makes up about It has a high proportion of students from state schools and its Junior Common a third of the student body. Its core buildings are distinctive Jacobean Gothic Room (JCR) often has a higher ratio of women to men. It has well regarded male and stand on a relatively small site on Turl Street, in the centre of the city. and female football leagues. The college also prides itself on its MCR, comprising Each year, students get involved in the Turl Street Arts Festival, organised jointly an active and friendly community, and aims to set a university benchmark for by the three Colleges on Turl Street (Jesus, Exeter and Lincoln). Jesus has a very graduate facilities. Hertford College usually has about 200 graduate students active MCR community that organises everything from cocktail evenings to in residence and admits about 85 per year, about half of whom are from overseas. punting parties.

Focus of college: English, history, geography, PPE, law and physics. Focus of college: Humanities, sciences and social sciences.

Undergraduate students: 360 Undergraduate students: 350

Graduate students: 200 Graduate students: 160

Distance from SBS: 10 minutes walk. Distance from SBS: Approx 10 minutes walk.

College facilities: Library, computer room, sports grounds (tennis and squash College facilities: College boathouse and playing fields/sports pavilion, music courts, boat house), common room, bar, music room, laundry, dining hall, room, chapel, free membership of University gym and pool, common rooms, chapel. The MCR computer room has facilities exclusively for graduate use. a bar, computer rooms, library open 24 hours, free wireless connection in HERTFORD JESUS COLLEGE common rooms, libraries and seminar rooms. COLLEGE College dining facilities: Breakfast, lunch and formal/informal dinner are Turl Street, available in the college hall during term time. College dining facilities: Breakfast lunch and formal/informal dinner are , Oxford OX1 3DW +44 (0)1865 279721 provided in the college’s historic dining hall. Oxford OX1 3BW Accommodation: Guaranteed for 1st year graduates, and normally available for +44 (0)1865 279404 three years. Old and new buildings on site. Graduate Centre: off site, near Folly Accommodation: Guaranteed for most full-time students. Study rooms at Interesting fact: Bridge (South Oxford). Well-equipped, modern accommodation by the river,10 the college or on Ship Street (adjacent to the college) with shared kitchens, Many other colleges Interesting fact: minutes walk from the college, about 15 from Saïd Business School. Various bathrooms, telephone and network connections. Annex accommodation: have attracted Welsh Hertford is known houses in North and South Oxford. Flats for 3-4 people in Herbert Close, East Oxford site (about 2.5 miles from students but between as the “Irish College”, Saïd Business School). Flats for three people in Stevens Close, North Oxford 1571 and 1915, not least for its fellows Married graduates/families: Flats available. site (1.5 miles/25 minutes’ walk from Saïd Business School). All an almost unbroken including Roy Foster accommodation has free Ethernet access to the college. and Tom Paulin, Average accommodation charges: Rooms from approx. £95 per week. succession of 24 tutors in the College’s Flats from approx. £143 per week. Principals of Jesus Married graduates/families: Flats available at the East Oxford annex site. strongest subjects: came from Wales or Scholarships: Each year up to four Senior Scholarships are awarded. history and English. were of Welsh descent. Average accommodation charges: Single Room: £108 per week. Shared Flat: £84 per person, per week. Couples’ Flat: £753 per month. Please check the college website for further information: www.hertford.ox.ac.uk Scholarships: Generous annual allowances for research (up to £760) and books (up to £165) per graduate. Wide range of grants, scholarships and prizes available. Up to four graduate scholarships of £825 available each year to graduates who have high academic achievements.

Please check the college website for further information: www.jesus.ox.ac.uk

12 Hertford College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 13 Jesus College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1870, Keble is a one of the larger Oxford colleges, whose original VIEW MAP Founded in 1990, Kellogg College is Oxford’s main venue for part-time and buildings, designed by William Butterfield, are a striking example of Victorian mature students. It is committed to supporting lifelong learning and to the architecture. The college was founded with the express purpose of making an expansion of opportunities for adult, part-time and professional development Oxford education more widely available. The student base is very diverse with students. The College itself is fairly young and has only just started accepting about half coming from overseas. The college aims to admit graduates for full-time students but it can trace its origins back to 1878, when it began courses across the academic spectrum from literature to law to medical biology. life under the support of American food industrialist, Will Keith Kellogg, The music society is very active with a touring choir and the college has a vibrant for whom it is now named. It has one of the University’s liveliest and most drama scene and is home to the respected O’Reilly Theatre. exciting educational programmes in terms of its range and ambitions and it is at the forefront of national and international developments in adult and Focus of college: Diverse but with particular strengths in archaeology, continuing education. the sciences, humanities, social science, medical science graduate students, plus strong societies in art, drama and sport. Focus of college: Very broad. Continuing education still flourishes, currently offering over 580 courses to nearly 16,000 part-time students each year. Undergraduate students: 410 Undergraduate students: 0 Graduate students: 235 Graduate students: 400 Distance from SBS: Approx 15 minutes walk. Distance from SBS: Approx 15-20 minutes walk. College facilities: Extensive library open 24 hours, computer room, dining hall, KEBLE COLLEGE common room, chapel, sports ground, squash courts, gym, bar and café. KELLOGG College facilities: Library, computer room, dining hall, common room and bar. , COLLEGE College dining facilities: Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided in the College dining facilities: All students are granted a dining allowance to Oxford OX1 3PG 62 , +44 (0)1865 272708 college hall. encourage regular attendance and more formal dinners in the college Oxford OX2 6PN dining hall. Accommodation: Onsite study bedrooms with hand basin, shared bathroom, +44 (0)1865 612000 Interesting fact: laundrette and telephone. Most accommodation on the Acland site, a newly Accommodation: Limited accommodation available to full-time students Despite Keble’s flower- designed research/living space (five minutes’ walk from Keble/under a mile Interesting fact: allocated on a first come, first served basis or by ballot for returning students. filled quads and or 15 minutes’ walk from Saïd Business School). Rooms differ greatly in size, In 1878 the Reverend Accommodation for full-time students is located in several substantial Victorian gardens, Butterfield’s layout and facilities but every room has a phone and an Ethernet connection Arthur Johnson (later villas on , in a leafy residential area of North Oxford (approx original designs did and most are en-suite. Some rooms adapted for disabled students. Chaplain of All Souls) 1.5 miles/25 minutes’ walk from Saïd Business School) with self-catering not show any plantings: delivered the first facilities. One room adapted for disabled students. Rooms generally have he wished the buildings Married graduates/families: Two apartments on the Acland site: one bedroom, Oxford Extension en-suite bathrooms (or toilets with shared bathrooms), televisions, hair dryers to dominate, even one bathroom and living area with a kitchenette. Telephone and internet. Lecture. This turned and tea and coffee making facilities. incorporating a sunken into a movement to lawn to accentuate Average accommodation charges: About £3,000 a year (over 27 weeks). liberalise Oxford, Married graduates/families: Some twin rooms available at Rewley House. the verticals of the which still flourishes Scholarships: Keble College elects a number of graduate scholars each year. Chapel. But at the today. The University Average accommodation charges: Full-time student accommodation approx turn of the millennium slowly began to open £420-470 per calendar month. the grounds were Please check the college website for further information: www.keble.ox.ac.uk itself to religious Scholarships: Hardship funds, research grants, academic bursaries, landscaped to reclaim nonconformists, scholarships and prizes. ground that had been less wealthy men further dominated by and later to women. subsequent building. It is this movement Please check the college website for further information: www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk that forms the historical background of Kellogg College.

14 Keble College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 15 Kellogg College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1878, Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) has a thriving international VIEW MAP Linacre College was founded in 1962. About 50 countries are represented in graduate community, with a well-balanced mix of men and women from the the student body; students are registered for “taught” higher degree courses UK, Europe and overseas. The college is adjacent to the , (MSc, MSt, BPhil or MPhil and 2nd BM) and for degrees awarded by thesis set in beautiful 12-acre grounds, with gardens leading down to the River (DPhil, MSc and MLitt), in a wide variety of subjects. The College is very Cherwell. Social events, at which graduates and fellows meet informally, take environmentally-conscious, green principles governed the construction of its place throughout the year. There is a strong musical tradition with an excellent newer buildings and it has close links with the University’s Environmental Change organ and chapel choir, an active music society and a number of practice rooms Institute. The College is situated 50 metres from the Science Area and University with pianos. Parks, a ten-minute walk from all major departments and the centre of Oxford.

Focus of college: Law, government, education, politics, literature, science, Focus of college: Draws from most subject areas. medicine and business. Along with music there are active college societies in history, law, literature, and a termly Canada Seminar. Undergraduate students: 0

Undergraduate students: 430 Graduate students: 300

Graduate students: 160 Distance from SBS: About 15 minutes walk.

Distance from SBS: About 20 minutes walk. College facilities: Library, computer room, IT support, dining room, common room, music room, gym, bar, study rooms. College facilities: Computer room, dining room, bar, common room (kitchen, LADY TV, social areas), chapel, well-stocked library (strong in arts and humanities, LINACRE College dining facilities: Popular cafeteria-style lunch and dinner provided in MARGARET open 24 hours). Sports facilities: punt house; tennis courts; fitness room; COLLEGE college Monday-Friday. Formal dinners are served in the main hall on Tuesday shared squash courts with Wolfson College; shared boathouse on the Isis and and Thursday evenings and are open to students, fellows and guests. HALL St Cross Road, sports field with Trinity College (rugby, football, lawn tennis, hockey, and cricket) Oxford OX1 3JA Accommodation: Guaranteed for first year of study. 91 single study bedrooms , on . Oxford OX2 6QA +44 (0)1865 271657 on the main college site and a further 78 in college-owned houses around the +44 (0)1865 274310 College dining facilities: Three meals per day served Monday-Friday; dinner on city. The Griffiths Building (adjacent to the college) offers 32 en-suite rooms Interesting fact: Sunday. Four free formal dinners per term, all in the college’s dining hall. (four of which are doubles). Most single study rooms have communal kitchens Interesting fact: The College’s name and bathrooms (unless stated), high-speed internet connections. LMH was the pioneer Accommodation: Guaranteed for first year of study. Single rooms for 50 commemorates of women’s education graduates, with very limited availability for further years, located adjacent to an outstanding Married graduates/families: Several double rooms available, plus limited at Oxford. It is named college buildings. Accommodation in single study rooms. No en-suite Renaissance figure. self-contained flats (one suitable for a family). after Lady Margaret accommodation available. Thomas Linacre Average accommodation charges: £333-£440 per month for a single room. Beaufort, founder of (c.1460-1524) was Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. a distinguished the Tudor dynasty Scholarships: Generous portfolio of scholarships to support graduate study along and patron of education Oxford humanist, Average accommodation charges: Approx £370-£430 per month. with prizes, grants and bursaries. and scholarship. medical scientist and classicist whose The College has been Scholarships: There are a number of awards. co-ed since 1979. accomplishments Please check the college website for further information: established him as one www.linacre.ox.ac.uk Please check the college website for further information: of the great scholars of www.ladymargarethall.co.uk his time.

16 Lady Margaret Hall A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 17 Linacre College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1427, Lincoln has long been known for its strong commitment VIEW MAP Founded in 1448, Magdalen (pronounced “maudlin”) has one of the larger to graduate study. Graduates form a high proportion of the student body and graduate intakes of Oxford’s non-graduate colleges and competition for places it was the first college in Oxford to provide a Middle Common Room (MCR) of is high. It is considered among the most beautiful of the Oxford colleges, set in which over 40 per cent of its members are from outside the UK/EC. Lincoln is 100-acre grounds complete with a deer park and riverside walk. Graduate social in the city centre, arranged around a graceful medieval quad, with a well-tended life centres on its flourishing and cosmopolitan MCR. This provides numerous lawn and a shroud of iconic Virginia Creeper that turns its façade a fiery scarlet amenities and organises outings, social events and sporting activities. Magdalen in the autumn. Graduates participate in the various academic, sporting, musical College is also internationally renowned for its successful choir. and dramatic activities organised in college and graduates, and fellows are encouraged to meet informally at various debates, dinners and MCR socials. Focus of college: Sciences, social sciences and the arts.

Focus of college: It strives to maintain a wide range of subject areas and types Undergraduate students: 377 of degrees from arts to social sciences, teaching to law. Graduate students: 264 Undergraduate students: 260 Distance from SBS: About 20 minutes walk. Graduate students: 180 College facilities: Five libraries, computer rooms, gym/pool, boat club, choirs, Distance from SBS: 10 minutes walk. drama groups, auditorium, music rooms, chapel.

College facilities: An elegant library, computer room, medieval era College dining facilities: Meals may be taken in college almost all year round LINCOLN dining hall, common room, 17th century chapel. MAGDALEN and all accommodation areas have separate cooking facilities. COLLEGE COLLEGE College dining facilities: Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided in college Accommodation: Minimum of two years accommodation in college is Turl Street, dining hall. High Street, guaranteed. Off site in a new and modernised complex, Holywell Ford: about Oxford OX1 3DR Oxford OX1 4AU 25 minutes walk from Saïd Business School. Several properties in Rose Lane, +44 (0)1865 27983 Accommodation: Guaranteed for first and second years: graduate centre on +44 (0)1865 276063 High Street and Longwall Street (the latter about 20 minutes walk from Saïd nearby Bear Lane (about five minutes’ walk from Saïd Business School) and Business School). Some accommodation available for disabled students. Interesting fact: at the EPA building on Museum Road (just under a mile/15 minutes’ walk Interesting fact: With a cheeky stone from Saïd Business School). All study rooms have ample communal facilities The Queen and the Married graduates/families: Some flats available. imp as its mascot, and kitchens Duke of Edinburgh this college has its made a historic visit Average accommodation charges: From £102-£153 per week with a 60-day fair share of bizarre Married graduates/families: Flats available. No accommodation available to Magdalen College residential study grant at daily rate. traditions, including for children. in November 2008 Scholarships: Limited awards. the annual ritual of to celebrate its 550th throwing hot pennies Average accommodation charges: Approx £120 per week. Anniversary. It was to (or in most cases at) the first visit the Queen Please check the college website for further information: www.magd.ox.ac.uk Scholarships: Several graduate scholarships and all graduate students are school children. has made to the College entitled to apply to a Graduate Research Fund for support with the costs of since 1948 when, research-related travel and conference attendance. as Princess Elizabeth, she came to collect an Please check the college website for further information: www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk honorary degree from Oxford University.

18 Lincoln College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 19 Magdalen College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1886, Mansfield College is set in stately Victorian buildings near VIEW MAP Founded in 1264, Merton College has an excellent library, one of the oldest the University Parks and the . It is one of Oxford’s smaller colleges working libraries in the UK. It is committed to its graduate population, drawn but earns consistent academic accolades. Mansfield provides a base for the from over 30 different countries forming a thriving international community. Europaeum, an association of seven European Universities, which promotes Graduates are assigned a fellow as “college adviser”, thus providing a more academic links in research and teaching collaboration among the European personal link with a senior member of the college. Graduates constitute almost partners. In addition, the Rothermere American Institute is sited partly within one half of the student body, a larger than average proportion for a college which the college. does not confine itself to graduates.

Focus of college: The College offers an eclectic mix of arts and science subjects. Focus of college: Broad. Archaeological science, biochemistry, biology, There are regular student drama productions and it has an active musical life, chemistry, China, classics and ancient history, economics, English, history, law. with concerts throughout the academic year. Mansfield is one of the leading colleges for student journalism. Undergraduate students: 302

Undergraduate students: 193 Graduate students: 298

Graduate students: 60 Distance from SBS: 10-15 minutes walk.

Distance from SBS: 15 minutes walk. College facilities: Library, computer room, dining hall, bar, communal kitchen facilities, common room, chapel, games room, real tennis court, music rooms, College facilities: Three libraries with 24-hour access, common room (two boat house, sports ground/pavilion. MANSFIELD rooms, well-equipped kitchenette, computer room, TV, DVD-player, stereo and MERTON COLLEGE wireless internet), chapel, shared sports ground with Merton College and COLLEGE College dining facilities: Breakfast, lunch and formal/informal dinner is taken in excellent rowing facilities. Merton’s grand dining hall, all year-round. Mansfield Road, Merton Street, Oxford OX1 3TF College dining facilities: Meals available in the college dining hall during term Oxford OX1 4JD Accommodation: Normally able to accommodate graduates for at least two +44 (0)1865 270982 and on a more limited basis in vacation. +44 (0)1865 276299 years, and many graduates live in college accommodation for the duration of their studies. 100 graduates are housed in the Holywell Buildings (about a Interesting fact: Accommodation: Guaranteed for the first year. Available but limited on college Interesting fact: mile/15 minutes’ walk from Saïd Business School), in single rooms with private The 1886 buildings, site: John Marsh building in the main college quadrangle with study bedrooms Merton College was bath or shower, telephone and Ethernet connections, communal kitchens and which house all and kitchens. Off site in the Hands building, a fourteen-room graduate building founded in 1264, one laundry. Other accommodation in houses with communal kitchens and Ethernet the College’s public with a designated common room, en-suite, cooking and laundry facilities in East of three ancient Oxford connections: Manor Road, Manor Place (just over a mile/20 minutes’ walk from rooms, are regarded Oxford (25 minutes walk from the Saïd Business School). Network connections colleges founded in Saïd Business School). as amongst the finest in all bedrooms. the thirteenth century. work of the eminent The college buildings, Married graduates/families: Small number of one-bedroom flats on Iffley Road Victorian architect, Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. set in extensive gardens (East Oxford) about a mile from the city centre. No accommodation available Basil Champneys. and grounds, are of for children. Average accommodation charges: £338 per month + £37 utilities. exceptional historical and aesthetic interest. Average accommodation charges: Graduate accommodation, single annual Scholarships: None. Its notable library, charge of £4,250. Flats and houses, up to £600 per month. dining hall, chapel, Scholarships: Numerous graduates are also well supported with grants for books, Please check the college website for further information: www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk lodge and quad also research travel and prizes in recognition of achievement. date from the College’s early years. Please check the college website for further information: www.merton.ox.ac.uk

20 Mansfield College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 21 Merton College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1379, New College is one of Oxford’s oldest colleges, set in a large VIEW MAP Oriel College was founded in 1324 and was granted its charter by King Edward and central site, with a thriving international graduate community of nearly 200 II in 1326, making it the first college of royal foundation in the University. students. This represents almost a third of the college membership, and makes Oriel attaches great importance to the integration of graduates into the life of the New College Middle Common Room one of the largest graduate communities the college, and has developed ‘subject families’, where fellows, lecturers, in Oxford. New College has the University’s largest grounds, among the most graduates and undergraduates group together within the college. Oriel is also beautiful in Oxford. It is internationally renowned for its chapel choir. keen to provide teaching opportunities for graduates including own Graduate Teaching Assistantship scheme. Focus of college: Fairly broad including computer and engineering sciences, economics and management, fine arts, law, classics, ancient and modern Focus of college: Humanities, medical and social sciences, mathematics, history, sports (rowing, cricket and men’s and women’s football), music, drama. physical and life sciences. The college has a strong tradition of sporting prowess and active music and drama societies. Undergraduate students: 410 Undergraduate students: 300 Graduate students: 200 Graduate students: 200 Distance from SBS: About 10-15 minutes walk. Distance from SBS: About 10-15 minutes walk. College facilities: Library, computer room, dining hall, bar, common room, chapel, band rehearsal room. College facilities: 24-hour access library, common room (with kitchen, bar and DVD/TV players), sports ground, gym, boat house, squash court, NEW COLLEGE College dining facilities: All graduate accommodation is self-catering, but meals ORIEL COLLEGE computer suites. Holywell Street, are provided in the college dining hall during term and for several days either Oriel Square, Oxford OX1 3BN side of term. Oxford OX1 4EW College dining facilities: Meals are provided in the college dining hall. +44 (0)1865 279512 +44 (0)1865 276522 Accommodation: Available in college, guaranteed for one year with a probability Accommodation: All on site housing has baths and/or showers and Ethernet of a second year. Graduates are accommodated both on the main site and in the connections, most with telephone connections. James Mellon Hall (1.5 mile/ Interesting fact: Interesting fact: Weston Buildings located at the sports ground, a five-minute walk away (20 half hour walk from Saïd Business School) has 65 rooms, en suite toilet and A famous New The main site of the minutes walk from Saïd Business School). shower, shared kitchens, common room, weights room with gym and squash College alumnus is college incorporates court. Specially-designed accommodation on both sites for disabled students. quintessential British Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. four medieval halls: actor, . Bedel Hall, St Mary Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. The College is home Average accommodation charges: £1,600 per term (14.6 weeks). £105 per Hall, St Martin Hall and to a very lively musical week, including heating and cleaning. Tackley’s Inn, the latter Average accommodation charges: £92-£125 per week. and theatrical being the oldest community including Scholarships: The college makes a number of awards each year plus assistance standing medieval hall Scholarships: Several graduate scholarships. several choirs and with research expenses and travel. in Oxford. orchestras as well as Please check the college website for further information: www.oriel.ox.ac.uk chamber groups, Please check the college website for further information: www.new.ox.ac.uk jazz ensembles and a drama society that puts on several plays a year.

22 New College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 23 Oriel College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1624, Pembroke College is a direct continuation of the most famous VIEW MAP Founded in 1810, Regent’s Park is one of Oxford’s six Permanent Private Halls, of the medieval halls, Broadgates. Its traditional site is in the centre of Oxford which moved to the city from London’s Regent’s Park in 1927. The college but there is a new building on the banks of the Thames and renovated graduate is known for its friendly atmosphere and strong sense of community with a facilities close to the college. The main site has iconic beauty, primarily built character that stems from Christian roots. While it still trains men and women between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries with Cotswold stone. for ordained ministry in Baptist churches, it is open and ecumenical in outlook. The college has traditionally maintained close links with North America. The college imposes no religious test or obligations on those who are not preparing for ordination, but offers students the opportunity, if they so wish Focus of college: Broad spectrum of humanities, sciences and social sciences, to develop a ‘Christian mind’ about the world and academic learning. such as law, plus economics and management, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, theology, medicine and mathematics. Strong sports traditions, particularly Focus of college: Theology, philosophy with theology and, increasingly, English. rowing, plus active music and drama societies. Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Centre for Christianity and Culture.

Undergraduate students: 355 Undergraduate students: 90

Graduate students: 125 Graduate students: 48

Distance from SBS: 10 minutes walk. Distance from SBS: 10 minutes walk.

College facilities: 24-hour access library, computer rooms, sports facilities College facilities: Common room, three libraries, boat club, football team, including tennis courts and boat club, art gallery and thriving Art Fund, choir, drama society and chapel. PEMBROKE common room. REGENT’S PARK COLLEGE COLLEGE College dining facilities: Meals, formal and informal, are taken in the college College dining facilities: Informal and formal meals available in college dining dining hall weekdays during term time. Grace is said before lunch and dinner. St Aldate’s, hall and the pantry throughout the year. Pusey Street, Oxford OX1 1DW Oxford OX1 2LB Accommodation: Not guaranteed. Single study-bedrooms, well furnished +44 (0)1865 276412 Accommodation: Most students are offered accommodation for their first year. +44 (0)1865 288153 with wash basin, built-in electric fire to supplement central heating and Graduate rooms are located in the adjacent Sir Roger Bannister Building, and well-equipped shared kitchens. Interesting fact: the Geoffrey Arthur Building annexe (1.3 miles/25 minutes walk from Saïd Interesting fact: Samuel Johnson is Business School), and in neighbouring self-contained graduate houses. Kitchen The oldest college Married graduates/families: Three modern blocks with flats. among the most facilities provided. Some rooms accessible for disabled students. resident is a tortoise illustrious of Pembroke called Emmanuelle. Average accommodation charges: £994 per term. College’s alumni. Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. She’s been at Scholarships: None available. His undergraduate Regent’s longer than career lasted just Average accommodation charges: Nightly rates £14-£21 plus £300 annual any student or fellow thirteen months but utilities charge. can remember. Please check the college website for further information: www.rpc.ox.ac.uk he continued to feel Originally thought to Scholarships: A wide range of grants, prizes and scholarships are available. deep affection for be male, she was called Pembroke. He paid Emanuel but in more regular visits to the Please check the college website for further information: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk recent years it was college between 1755 confirmed that in fact when he published his that wasn’t the case celebrated Dictionary of and a slight adjustment the , was made to her name and 1784, the year of to reflect this. his death.

24 Pembroke College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 25 Regent’s Park College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1952, St Anne’s College can trace its origins back to 1878 VIEW MAP St Catherine’s College was founded in 1868. It has one of the largest graduate and the formation of the Association for the Education of Women in Oxford. intakes of the University colleges admitting both undergraduates and graduates. It has been open to men since 1979. St Anne’s is well known for its friendly The policy of the college from its foundation has been to integrate graduates and supportive academic environment with about 180 graduates from many closely into its academic and social life. St Catherine’s, known as St Catz has countries. This makes its Middle Common Room one of the largest and most a reputation for having an informal and relaxed atmosphere. Its low, modern vibrant in the University. It is set in modern buildings, opposite the University buildings and restful gardens (all designed by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen) Parks, close to the River Cherwell. give the college, located in a leafy area on the peripheries of the city centre, a peaceful atmosphere. St Catherine’s is proud of its place at the forefront of Focus of college: Very broad from sciences to humanities, arts to modern innovation, academic research and contemporary culture, and counts five Nobel languages. Students take an active part in drama, University sports Prize winners amongst its current and former members. and journalism. Focus of college: It offers a wide range of subjects with a roughly even split Undergraduate students: 437 between science and arts.

Graduate students: 187 Undergraduate students: 459

Distance from SBS: 15-20 minutes walk. Graduate students: 233 (and 50 visiting students)

College facilities: Library, dining hall, common room (with coffee bar), graduate Distance from SBS: 20 minutes walk. study centre, music facilities, nursery, sports field, shared boat house, gym. ST ANNE’S ST CATHERINE’S College facilities: Library, dining hall, common room, music room, sport COLLEGE College dining facilities: Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided in the college COLLEGE facilities, punt house, theatres, laundry. dining hall in term time. Woodstock Road, Manor Road, College dining facilities: Students eat in hall on a “pay as you eat” basis for Oxford OX2 6HS Accommodation: Available for 82 graduate students. Flats in Robert Saunders Oxford OX1 3UJ roughly £8 per day for three meals. +44 (0)1865 274800 House in Summertown (30-40 minutes walk from Saïd Business School); easy +44 (0)1865 271700 access to shops and bus to the city centre. Three to seven single bedrooms per Accommodation: Limited and not guaranteed. In-college study rooms with wash Interesting fact: flat. Communal kitchen, shower room, Ethernet connection, laundry facilities. Interesting fact: basins, a shared bathroom and kitchen facilities. St Anne’s, in 1879, The Bullock Event, was known as The Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. an annual programme Married graduates/families: 15 flats with a double bedroom. Three flats have a Society of Home- of drama, art and second bedroom for a child under four years old. All flats are furnished. Kitchen, Students, a manifesto Average accommodation charges: £103 per week. music (named after living area, bathroom and study. rather than a location. the college’s founder, Scholarships: Generous travel and conference grants, Graduate Research The Society allowed Alan Bullock), is a Average accommodation charges: Single rooms approx £105 per week. One/ Scholarships, Graduate Development Scholarships, promoting teaching young women to live showcase for the best two-bedroom flats available for approx £562/£594 per month. experience. in lodgings across the of art, poetry, music Scholarships: Several plus a research expenses fund for all graduates. city, and to attend and drama that the lectures and tutorials, Please check the college website for further information: www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk college has to offer just as those living in and takes place at the Please check the college website for further information: www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk colleges did, providing college every February. a more affordable way of obtaining a degree.

26 St Anne’s College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 27 St Catherine’s College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1965, St Cross College accepts postgraduate students only and VIEW MAP Founded in 1957, St Edmund Hall is renowned for its friendly spirit. Graduates is dedicated to their needs. The college occupies a combination of traditional- are welcomed members, participating in all social, cultural and sporting aspects style and modern buildings on St Giles, close to the main University facilities of college life. Often referred to as Teddy Hall, the college offers a well-equipped and the city centre shops, bars and restaurants. St Cross is international in library, housed in a beautifully renovated twelfth-century church, as well as profile. Over half of the students are from outside the UK, many from Europe excellent computing facilities. but a number also from the USA, Canada, Japan and SE Asia. In all, over 50 countries are represented. Fellows and students share facilities equally so there Focus of college: Arts and sciences. Students also find time for a wide range of are daily opportunities for all members of the college to meet and mix. extra-curricular activities, including journalism, music, drama, art, creative writing, and sport. Focus of college: A wide variety of disciplines are represented among both the students and Fellows of the College. Undergraduate students: 400

Undergraduate students: 0 Graduate students: 150

Graduate students: 300. Around 130 new graduate students admitted Distance from SBS: 10-15 minutes walk. each year. College facilities: Library, dining hall, common room, bar, television room, gym. Distance from SBS: Approx 10 minutes walk. College dining facilities: Meals are available in hall at the main site and there College facilities: Library, dining hall, common room, computer room, exercise are excellent self-catering kitchen facilities at the Norham Gardens site. ST CROSS room. Arrangement with Wolfson College for sports facilities. ST EDMUND COLLEGE HALL Accommodation: Guaranteed for the first year of study. Three houses, with high College dining facilities: Lunch in the college dining hall most of the year and standard rooms, wash basins in all rooms and shared bathrooms in two houses, 61 St Giles, dinner most nights. Queen’s Lane, private in one. Plus well-equipped kitchens and laundry facilities. Oxford OX1 3LZ Oxford OX1 4AR +44 (0)1865 278458 Accommodation: Five college residences. A central college site in St Giles +44 (0)1865 279000 Married graduates/families: 10 flats available: living room, kitchen, bedroom with 18 high-quality study bedrooms, five bedrooms per flat, study room and and small bathroom. Two flats for couples with children. Interesting fact: exercise room. The Annex, at St Cross Road, near the University Science Area Interesting fact: Average accommodation charges: £15-£18 per day. St Cross College (one mile/20 minutes walk from Saïd Business School) with 49 single study Although a College prides itself on being in the strict sense only bedrooms, computers connections, telephone and TV. College houses: Bradmore Scholarships: Grants, awards and scholarships. a very welcoming House in a pleasant and largely residential area next to the University Parks (one since 1957, the history college. Its Latin mile/20 minutes’ walk from Saïd Business School) with eight single bedrooms; of St Edmund Hall goes motto “Ad quattuor Wellington Square houses (0.6 miles/11 minutes’ walk from Saïd Business back to the thirteenth Please check the college website for further information: www.seh.ox.ac.uk cardines mundi” School) with 17 single study bedrooms (no phone points or Ethernet century, for it is the sole meaning “To the four connection), free laundry rooms. survivor of the medieval corners of the Earth” halls that provided typifies the college’s Married graduates/families: Limited but available. One flat. One suite of rooms. undergraduates with ethos of welcoming Separate sitting room and double bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. accommodation and scholars from all parts tuition before the of the world. Average accommodation charges: £330-£556 per month. colleges began to do so. Scholarships: A range of scholarships and studentships for support in various subjects.

Please check the college website for further information: www.stx.ox.ac.uk

28 St Cross College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 29 St Edmund Hall A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1893, up until recently St Hilda’s used to be the only women’s VIEW MAP Founded in 1886, St Hugh’s College is one of the larger Oxford colleges, its college at Oxford University. It was founded to promote women’s education, Edwardian redbrick buildings set among sprawling 14-acre, partially wooded and to this day it remains proudly committed to this goal and to women’s gardens. Each graduate is assigned a college advisor to supplement the academic excellence. St Hilda’s is the University’s most easterly located University supervisor and give a point of contact in college to discuss academic college, set in four acres of gardens on the banks of the Cherwell at Magdalen and other issues. The Middle Common Room has a membership that represents Bridge, with rooms over looking the river. The college has a senior academic staff a third of the student body and plays an active role in college life, organising of about 50 fellows and lecturers, and several research fellows. social activities and speaker meetings, and participates in college sporting, musical and dramatic events. Focus of college: English, modern languages and history. The college has an association with football, lawn tennis, and rugby. Focus of college: English language and literature, modern languages, modern history and classics. Undergraduate students: 400 Undergraduate students: 387 Graduate students: 100 Graduate students: 248 Distance from SBS: 20 minutes walk. Distance from SBS: 20 minutes walk. College facilities: Library, computer room, music room, dining room, common room, chapel. Fleet of punts and use of the university’s Iffley Road College facilities: Library (24-hour access), computer room, dining room, sports complex. common room, chapel. The gardens host regular games of croquet, tennis and ST HILDA’S ST HUGH’S Frisbee and there are basketball courts. Other sports are catered for at grounds COLLEGE College dining facilities: Meals are available in college for most of the year. COLLEGE shared with Wadham College.

Cowley Place, Accommodation: Available for nearly all first and second year graduates. Houses St Margaret’s Road, College dining facilities: Meals available in college almost throughout the year. Oxford OX4 1DY adjacent to the college site – spacious rooms with telephone points, Ethernet Oxford OX2 6LE Separate cooking and laundry facilities are provided. +44 (0)1865 286620 connections, well-equipped kitchens and communal sitting rooms. Buildings in +44 (0)1865 274910 Cowley Road, East Oxford (two miles from Saïd Business School), and on Jack Accommodation: 95 single study bedrooms on site. Varying sizes with communal Interesting fact: Straw’s Lane, near the John Radcliffe Hospital (three miles from Saïd Business Interesting fact: bathroom and kitchen facilities, computer connections in all rooms, phone lines The Jacqueline Du School) with different types of rooms available, laundry facilities and internet St Hugh’s was in some rooms. Pré Music Building is access in every room. founded by Elizabeth the college’s concert Wordsworth, the great Married graduates/families: Five flats available. No family accommodation. venue named after the Married graduates/families: Three flats available for couples. niece of the poet, esteemed cellist who who named it after one Average accommodation charges: Rooms £397-£490 per month. Flats £595- was an honorary fellow Average accommodation charges: £3,300 to £5,700 for a 51-week let. of her twelfth century £836 per month. of the college. Graduate flats £573 a month. predecessors, Hugh Scholarships: Small number of full or partial studentships for research students. of Avalon, who was Scholarships: Various plus grants and bursaries. canonised in 1220, and in whose diocese Please check the college website for further information: www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk Please check the college website for further information: www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk Oxford had been. Elizabeth Wordsworth was a champion of women’s education and the college was originally intended to help poorer women gain an Oxford education.

30 St Hilda’s College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 31 St Hugh’s College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP St John’s was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas White, a wealthy London VIEW MAP Founded in 1928, St Peter’s College is an inclusive, tolerant and open academic merchant. Academically one of Oxford’s most successful colleges, St John’s community taking women and men from a wide variety of backgrounds and many attracts students from a wide range of backgrounds who enjoy a lively, stimulating different countries. The college occupies a compact site in the centre of Oxford, and supportive atmosphere. It is an extremely popular college for graduates, within a few minutes’ walk of the Bodleian Library. St Peter’s has one of the who make up approximately 40 per cent of the student community. Although smaller MCRs in Oxford, numbering between 100 and 150 members. However primarily a producer of Anglican clergymen in the earlier periods of its history, despite its size, it is a lively and cosmopolitan group with members from around St John’s also gained a reputation for both law and medicine. Former British the world studying for a variety of masters degrees and doctorates in both the arts Prime Minister, Tony Blair is an alumnus. and sciences.

Focus of college: St John’s College teaches nearly all courses offered at Focus of college: Wide range of subjects from anthropology to zoology. Well- Oxford with high intake of students studying biological sciences, economics, known for its rugby team. Regular concerts, recitals and drama productions. history, law, modern languages, engineering, english and politics, philosophy Arts festival once a year. and economics. Undergraduate students: 100 Undergraduate students: 400 Graduate students: 80 Graduate students: 240 Distance from SBS: Five minutes walk. Distance from SBS: 10 minutes walk. College facilities: Library open 24 hours, computer room, dining hall, café, ST JOHN’S College facilities: Two libraries, bar, computer rooms, squash court, ST PETER’S common room, chapel, music room, gym, shared sports facilities including a COLLEGE fitness centre, sports ground and boat house, music room, art collection and COLLEGE boat house on the River Thames. photographic dark room, chapel and choir. The common room incorporates a St Giles’, New Inn Hall Street, computer room, television room, games room, kitchen and a large function College dining facilities: All meals available in the college dining hall during Oxford OX1 3JP Oxford OX1 2DL space where many events are held. term time. +44 (0)1865 277318 +44 (0)1865 278863 College dining facilities: Three meals a day are available in the college Accommodation: Not guaranteed and limited – on site in college rooms and Interesting fact: Interesting fact: dining hall throughout most of the year. Separate cooking and laundry facilities accommodation in houses and purpose-built blocks that the college owns on Work began on St St Peter’s College are provided. Terrace (0.7 miles/15 minutes walk from Saïd Business School) John’s’ new Kendrew occupies the site of Quadrangle in 2006. Accommodation: Study rooms (some en-suite) are available on site in first two of the University’s Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. It should be completed, year. Most rooms have internet access. Limited number of rooms with oldest inns or medieval Average accommodation charges: £109 per week. along with work on disabled access. hostels, some of the colleges Trellick’s, later New Scholarships: Various. listed buildings, by Married graduates: Limited availability in flats. Inn Hall, and Rose Hall, 2010. This will include both founded in the Average accommodation charges: new buildings including Room charges £12-£14 per night. thirteenth century. Please check the college website for further information: www.spc.ox.ac.uk alumni guest rooms, Flats £456-£560 per month. The college dining hall exhibition space, dates from 1832 and Scholarships: Various grants, funds and prizes. and teaching rooms. is the only surviving part of New Inn Hall. Please check the college website for further information: www.sjc.ox.ac.uk

32 St John’s College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 33 St Peter’s College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1341, The Queen’s College is renowned for its eighteenth-century VIEW MAP Trinity College is one of the smallest in Oxford, yet it enjoys extensive buildings architecture. The college has a major commitment to graduate education with and gardens on a central site, near the Bodleian Library. Its size makes for a graduates making up about one third of student numbers. Intake is international friendly and intimate atmosphere with plenty of social events. Trinity set up one and covers a wide range of subjects. The Tutor for Graduates looks after the of Oxford’s first science laboratories, and the college has been home to Nobel academic welfare of students and, in most cases, they are also assigned an Laureates, Professor Rodney Porter, Professor Cyril Hinshelwood and Professor additional college advisor with expertise in a field related to their research. Hans Krebs.

Focus of college: Wide variety of humanities. Also medical sciences, Focus of college: Traditionally strong in the science subjects. Also arts and mathematics, social sciences, and life and environmental sciences. The college social science subjects including law, PPE, modern languages, history, classics, choir is one of Oxford’s most esteemed. The Eglesfield Musical Society is the english, management studies, and theology. oldest musical society in Oxford. Undergraduate students: 129 Undergraduate students: 300 Graduate students: 298 Graduate students: 150 Distance from SBS: 10 minutes walk. Distance from SBS: 15 minutes walk. College facilities: Squash court, gym, boat club, music rooms, choir and College facilities: Supremely well-stocked library, dining hall, bar, common orchestra, sports facilities, library, dining hall, common room (with lounges room, chapel and choir, music rooms and plentiful sports facilities including one and kitchens), laundry. THE QUEEN’S of the University’s oldest boat clubs. TRINITY COLLEGE COLLEGE College dining facilities: All graduates may take good value meals in hall. College dining facilities: Meals are served in hall, both for those living in and out Regular Guest Night dinners are particularly popular. High Street, of college. Breakfast and lunch are provided on a self-service basis. Dinner is Broad Street, Oxford OX1 4AW served at two separate sittings. Oxford OX1 3BH Accommodation: Guaranteed up to a maximum of three years. A small number +44 (0)1865 279161 +44 (0)1865 279860 of rooms available for first year graduates on the main site (priority to those Accommodation: For the two first years, on two sites. En-suite study bedrooms coming from overseas). Rooms available in the annexe in Interesting fact: in the college’s annexe in St Aldate’s (10 minutes walk from Saïd Business Interesting fact: (about 20 minutes walk from the Saïd Business School). Ethernet connections The “hall of the Queen’s School), Ethernet and telephone connections, shared kitchen facilities. Trinity College was available in all rooms. scholars at Oxford” was En-suite study bedrooms at the Oxley Wright Building in Banbury Road (1.5 founded by Sir Thomas founded by Robert de miles from Saïd Business School) with Ethernet and telephone connections, in 1555. Pope Married graduates/families: Occasional availability. Eglesfield, a chaplain shared kitchen facilities. purchased the site and in the household of buildings of an earlier Average accommodation charges: £89-£135 per week. Queen Philippa, who Married graduates/families: No accommodation available. monastic foundation, Scholarships: There are choral bursaries, an organ scholarship every two years, named it in her honour. Durham College, which and small instrumental bursaries. Average accommodation charges: £5,274 per year. dated back to 1286. The only surviving Scholarships: Numerous plus hardship funds, grants for foreign travel. Durham College Please check the college website for further information: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk building is Trinity’s Please check the college website for further information: www.queens.ox.ac.uk Old Library.

34 The Queen’s College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 35 Trinity College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls VIEW MAP Founded in 1613, Wadham College has large, quiet grounds with beautiful VIEW MAP Wolfson College was founded in 1965 to provide a stimulating and supportive gardens, a fine early seventeenth-century quad, and several modern buildings. environment, geared specifically to the needs of graduate students. The college The college has a reputation for informality and lack of stuffiness. Wadham was purpose built for a graduate community on the banks of the River Cherwell in is renowned for student activism and is a strong supporter of gay rights. North Oxford and is the University’s largest graduate college. Wolfson is renowned You will find a strong sense of community, one in which you will be treated as for being one of the most egalitarian colleges at Oxford. For example, there is only an individual and where you will make friends from a wide variety of backgrounds one common room organisation for all the members of the college students and and nationalities. The college has an international officer who works to improve fellows alike. the integration of international students and help them through any difficulties they may experience. Focus of college: A wide range of subjects in both the sciences and humanities.

Focus of college: Wadham College welcomes applications for graduate study in Undergraduate students: 0 a wide range of subjects. Graduate students: 580 Undergraduate students: 450 Distance from SBS: 1.3 miles/about 25 minutes walk. Graduate students: 130 College facilities: 24-hour access library, computing facilities, common room, Distance from SBS: 10 minutes walk. sport facilities (weights room, punts, squash and tennis courts), music and visual arts facilities, bar, nursery, choir, music society, garden allotments. College facilities: 24-hour access Library, computing facilities, common room, WADHAM sport facilities, music room, theatre, women’s room, chapel, bar, boat house, WOLFSON College dining facilities: Lunch and dinner Monday-Friday, and Saturday lunch COLLEGE squash and badminton court. A new Graduate Centre is currently under COLLEGE in the college dining hall. construction for the use of all Wadham graduates. Due for completion in Parks Road, , Accommodation: Offered to nearly all students in their first year. Mainly in four 2010 it will feature a brand new graduate common room, fully-equipped kitchen Oxford OX1 3PN Oxford OX2 6UD study-bedroom apartments, with shared kitchen, bathroom and shower. All facilities, computer room, TV room and seminar room. +44 (0)1865 277545 +44 (0)1865 274106 rooms have Ethernet and telephone facilities and laundry. Purpose-built College dining facilities: Meals are served either in the New Refectory or the accommodation is available for disabled students. Interesting fact: Interesting fact: college dining hall. Wadham’s MCR has The college organises Married graduates/families: There are two and three-bedroom houses for couples wide range of social and Accommodation: Guaranteed for all first year graduates from outside Oxford. three special lectures with children and two-room flats for couples. academic activities on Rooms on main college site are single or double sets (two single bedrooms with which take place Average accommodation charges: Single room from £90 per week. Couples offer each term, from a large shared sitting room). All have small kitchens, central laundrette and annually with rooms from £155 per week. Family rooms from £224 per week. exchange dinners, cycle storage facilities. The Merifield complex in Summertown (15 minutes attendance from guest nights, and across the University walk from the Saïd Business School) offers rooms in flats with shared kitchen Scholarships: College-Fee studentships are available in association with the weekly welfare teas, and beyond, including and bathroom. Clarendon Fund. Continuing graduates are eligible for college fees bursaries. to MCR subsidised the Isaiah Berlin Various other awards available. trips to the theatre, Married graduates: Four, two-bedroom flats are available for couples. Lecture on subjects to regular graduate related to the history Average accommodation charges: seminars where £361 per month (in Merifield); £984 per term of ideas. Past speakers Please check the college website for further information: www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk members present and including weekday dinner (in college). have included Sir Tom discuss their research. Stoppard, playwright, Scholarships: Wadham offers a number of scholarships and prizes for graduates. His Excellency Dr Jorge Sampaio, President Please check the college website for further information: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk of the Portuguese Republic, and Canadian author/politician Michael Ignatieff.

36 Wadham College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls 37 Wolfson College A guide to Oxford’s Colleges and Halls Founded in 1714, Worcester College occupies 26 acres of wooded gardens, with a lake and playing fields within its grounds and yet is only a few minutes walk from the city centre. It is often referred to as “Oxford’s best kept secret” as few know the college and its extensive grounds are tucked away behind its rather innocuous façade just to the north of the centre. The library, chapel and dining hall were created by some of Britain’s finest eighteenth and nineteenth century architects. Residential accommodation ranges from picturesque 15th-century ’ cottages to award-winning modern rooms.

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