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The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096,[5] making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.[5][15][16] It grew rapidly from 1167, when Henry II prohibited English students from attending the University of Paris.[5] After escalating conflict between students and the Oxford townspeople, some Oxford academics fled northeast to Cambridge, where they established the University of Cambridge in 1209.[17] The two universities share many common features and are jointly referred to as Oxbridge.[18]
The University of Oxford is made up of 43 colleges – of which 36 are chartered colleges (independent bodies), four are permanent private halls (owned by religious organisations), and three are societies (controlled by the university)[19][20] – and a range of academic departments that are organised into four divisions.[21] Colleges control their own membership and activities. Typically social life for students is centred around fellow college members. All students are members of a college.[19] Oxford does not have a main campus. Its buildings and facilities are scattered throughout the city centre and around the town. Undergraduate teaching at the university consists of lectures, small-group tutorials at the colleges and halls, seminars, laboratory work and tutorials provided by the central university faculties and departments. Postgraduate teaching is provided in a predominantly centralised fashion.
Oxford operates the Ashmolean Museum, the world's oldest university museum; Oxford University Press, the largest university press in the world; and the largest academic library system nationwide.[22] In the fiscal year ending 31 July 2025, the university had a total consolidated income of £3.02 billion, of which £801.3 million was from research grants and contracts.[7]
Oxford has educated a wide range of notable alumni, including 31 prime ministers of the United Kingdom[23] and many heads of state and government around the world.[24] As of October 2025,[update] 76 Nobel Prize laureates, 4 Fields Medalists, and 6 Turing Award winners have matriculated, worked, or held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford. Its alumni have won 160 Olympic medals.[25] Oxford is home to a number of scholarships, including the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the oldest international graduate scholarship programmes in the wor
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