Review on University of Oxford by Bukola Joy

Oxford University

University of Oxford



The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England, it was established since many years ago precisely in the year 1096 which is concluded to be 925 years ago.



There is a clear evidence of teaching as early as 1096 which makes it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and also the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.



Oxford university operates the world's oldest university museum, as well as the largest university press in the world and the largest academic library system nationwide.



In Oxford university, All the 39 colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, All students are members of a college. Oxford university does not have a main campus, and its buildings and facilities are scattered throughout the city centre.



Oxford university has educated a wide range of notable alumni which includes 28 successful prime ministers of the United Kingdom and many heads of state and government around the world.



Oxford university is globally known as the home of numerous scholarships.



In Oxford university, Undergraduate teaching at Oxford consists of lectures, small-group tutorials at the colleges and halls, seminars, laboratory work and occasionally further tutorials provided by the central university faculties and departments while Postgraduate teaching is provided predominantly centrally.



Oxford university maintains the largest university library system in the UK with over 11 million volumes housed on 120 miles of shelving, the Bodleian group also is the second-largest library in the UK, after the British Library. The Bodleian is a legal deposit library with good equiped amenities there in .



Oxford university has everything it takes to admit students giving them all comfortability, Oxford maintains a number of museums and galleries, open for free to the public. The Ashmolean Museum, founded in 1683, is the oldest museum in the UK, and the oldest university museum in the world. It holds significant collections of art and archaeology. The University Museum of Natural History holds the university's zoological, entomological and geological specimens. It is housed in a large neo-Gothic building on Parks Road.



Another Quality of this university is the Oxford university press, Oxford University Press is the world's second oldest and currently the largest university press by the number of publications and More than 6,000 new books are published annually including many reference, professional, and academic works in this university press.



Oxford university is regularly ranked within the top 5 universities in the world and is currently ranked first in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings so also as well as the Forbes's World University Rankings.



Oxford university has diversified games and Athletics for students social life to be meaningful.



There are also two weekly student newspapers in Oxford university, the independent Cherwell and OUSU's The Oxford Student. Other publications include the Isis magazine, the satirical Oxymoron, and the graduate Oxonian Review. The student radio station is Oxide Radio. Most colleges have chapel choirs. Music, drama, and other arts societies exist both at the collegiate level and as university-wide groups, such as the Oxford University Dramatic Society .



There's also The Oxford University Student Union which is formerly better known by its acronym OUSU and now rebranded as Oxford SU, it exists to represent students in the university's decision-making, to act as the voice for students in the national higher education policy debate and to provide direct services to the student body.



Oxford university has produced a large number of distinguished jurists, judges, lawyers and other successful professionals around the world.





Religiously, Oxford university has also produced at least 12 saints, 19 English cardinals, and 20 Archbishops of Canterbury.

In Oxford university, there is admission for both national and international student with good health insurance, considerable payment fee, scholarships and grants.