My favourite university University of oxford

My favourite university

University of oxford

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (INFORMALLY OXFORD UNIVERSITY OR SIMPLY OXFORD) IS A COLLEGIATE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY LOCATED IN OXFORD, ENGLAND. WHILE HAVING NO KNOWN DATE OF FOUNDATION, THERE IS EVIDENCE OF TEACHING AS FAR BACK AS 1096, MAKING IT THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD, AND THE WORLD'S SECOND-OLDEST SURVIVING UNIVERSITY. IT GREW RAPIDLY FROM 1167 WHEN HENRY II BANNED ENGLISH STUDENTS FROM ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS. AFTER DISPUTES BETWEEN STUDENTS AND OXFORD TOWNSFOLK IN 1209, SOME ACADEMICS FLED NORTHEAST TO CAMBRIDGE, WHERE THEY ESTABLISHED WHAT BECAME THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. THE TWO "ANCIENT UNIVERSITIES" ARE FREQUENTLY JOINTLY REFERRED TO AS "OXBRIDGE".

The university is made up of a variety of institutions, including 38 constituent colleges and a full range of academic departments which are organised into four divisions. All the colleges are self-governing institutions as part of the university, each controlling its own membership and with its own internal structure and activities. Being a city university, it does not have a main campus; instead, all the buildings and facilities are scattered throughout the metropolitan centre.

Most undergraduate teaching at Oxford is organised around weekly tutorials at the selfgoverning colleges and halls, supported by classes, lectures and laboratory work provided by university faculties and departments. Oxford is the home of several notable scholarships, including the Clarendon Scholarship which was launched in 2001 and the Rhodes Scholarship which has brought graduate students to read at the university for more than a century. The university operates the largest university press in the world and the largest academic library system in the United Kingdom. Oxford has educated many notable alumni, including 27 Nobel laureates (60 total affiliations), 26 British Prime Ministers (most recently David Cameron, the incumbent) and many foreign heads of state.

The long list of writers associated with Oxford includes John Fowles, Theodor Geisel, Thomas Middleton, Samuel Johnson, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Graves, Evelyn Waugh, Lewis Carroll, Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Graham Greene, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Pullman, Joseph Heller, Vikram Seth, the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Donne, A. E. Housman, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Wendy Perriam and Philip Larkin, and seven poets laureate: Thomas Warton, Henry James Pye, Robert Southey, Robert Bridges, Cecil Day-Lewis, Sir John Betjeman, and Andrew Motion. And hundreds of others well-known names…

Why I want to study here? 1. Oxford - not only the university, but also the largest research center in Oxford more than a hundred libraries (the most extensive university library in England) and museums and publisher. 2. Students have the opportunity to a large amount of his time to devote to leisure - at their disposal more than 300 groups of interests. Traditionally, the attention paid to sports in Oxford. 3. From the walls of Oxford was a whole galaxy of brilliant figures of science, literature, art and other sides. 4. State of educators Oxford is huge - almost 4000 people, of whom 70 Members of the Royal Society, 100 - member of the British Academy. Oxford uses a unique system of training tutoring - on each student establishes personal care specialist on the chosen specialty. 5. Year of study at Oxford costs about 6300 pounds.

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