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| Latin: Universitas Oxoniensis | |
Other name | The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford[1] |
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| Motto | Latin: Dominus illuminatio mea |
Motto in English | The Lord is my light |
| Type | Public research university |
| Established | c. 1096[2] |
| Endowment | £8.066 billion (2023; including colleges)[5] |
| Budget | £2.924 billion (2022/23)[4] |
| Chancellor | The Lord Patten of Barnes |
| Vice-Chancellor | Irene Tracey[6] |
Academic staff | 6,945 (2022)[7] |
| Students | 26,945 (2023)[8][9] |
| Undergraduates | 12,580 |
| Postgraduates | 13,445 |
Other students | 430 |
| Location | Oxford , England 51°45′18″N 01°15′18″W / 51.75500°N 1.25500°W |
| Campus | University town |
| Colours | Oxford Blue[10] |
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| Website | ox |
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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,[2] making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.[2][11][12] It grew rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.[2] After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge.[13] The two English ancient universities share many common features and are jointly referred to as Oxbridge.[14]
The University of Oxford is made up of thirty-nine semi-autonomous constituent colleges, four permanent private halls, and a range of academic departments which are organised into four divisions.[15] Each college is a self-governing institution within the university, controlling its own membership and having its own internal structure and activities. All students are members of a college.[16] Traditionally, each of Oxford's constituent colleges is associated with another of the colleges in the University of Cambridge, with the only exceptional addition of Trinity College, Dublin.[17][18] It does not have a main campus, and its buildings and facilities are scattered throughout the city centre. 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. 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.[19] In the fiscal year ending 31 July 2023, the university had a total consolidated income of £2.92 billion, of which £789 million was from research grants and contracts.[4]
Oxford has educated a wide range of notable alumni, including 30 prime ministers of the United Kingdom and many heads of state and government around the world.[20] As of October 2022,[update] 73 Nobel Prize laureates, 4 Fields Medalists, and 6 Turing Award winners have matriculated, worked, or held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, while its alumni have won 160 Olympic medals.[21] Oxford is the home of numerous scholarships, including the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the oldest international graduate scholarship programmes.
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- ^ Colleges (group) £6,387.7M,[3] University (consolidated) £1,678.0M[4]
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