"The University of Oxford (legitimately The Chancellor Masters as well as Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a college research college in Oxford, England. There is proof of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest college in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation. It proliferated from 1167 when Henry II prohibited English students from participating in the College of Paris. After disputes between students as well as Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics ran away north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge. The two "" old colleges"" are often collectively called "" Oxbridge"". The history and impact of the College of Oxford have made it among the most prominent universities in the world.

The college is composed of 39 constituent colleges, six permanent exclusive halls, as well as a range of academic departments which are organised right into four departments. [14] All the universities are independent institutions within the college, each regulating its own subscription and with its own interior structure and also tasks. It does not have a primary campus, and also its buildings as well as centers are spread throughout the city centre. Undergraduate mentor at Oxford is organised around once a week tutorials at the universities as well as halls, sustained by courses, talks, seminars, as well as research laboratory work provided by college faculties and departments; some postgraduate mentor, as well as occasionally undergraduate mentor, includes tutorials arranged by professors and also divisions. It operates the world's earliest college gallery, in addition to the largest university press on the planet as well as the biggest scholastic library system across the country.

In the ending 31 July 2019, the college had a complete earnings of ₤ 2.45 billion, of which ₤ 624.8 million was from research study gives and contracts. The college is rated among the very best higher knowing establishments by a lot of international and also significant nationwide organization tables.

Oxford has actually informed a wide range of noteworthy graduates, consisting of 28 prime ministers of the United Kingdom and numerous presidents and government worldwide. Since November 2019, 72 Nobel Prize laureates, 3 Area Medalists, and 6 Turing Honor victors have examined, worked, or held seeing fellowships at the University of Oxford, while its graduates have actually won 160 Olympic medals. Oxford is the residence of countless scholarships, including the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the earliest global grad scholarship programmes."