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Welcome to Univ

Students at University College come from all sorts of backgrounds, and from across the UK and the world. We have about 370 undergraduates and in excess of 200 graduate students, from over 50 countries. They have three things in common: a love of their subject, a strong record of proven intellectual ability, and the commitment and ambition to make a success of their chosen course. If you share this commitment to study, this drive and enthusiasm for hard work, and this passion for intellectual challenges, then we think Univ is the right college for you.

Our students are taught and guided in their work by dedicated tutors who engage in world-class research in their fields. Our college has a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence, openness, informality, diversity and strong welfare and student support systems. When we decide which applicants to admit, our overriding interest is in each student’s ability and desire to make a success of studying their chosen course.

Admission is therefore on merit only: we want to attract the most talented students, whatever their educational, social or cultural background, and we welcome applications from students at schools with little history of sending students to Oxford or Cambridge. To make it easy for everyone who gets a place to come here, we offer some of the most generous college bursaries in the University, on top of the Oxford Opportunity Bursaries. And to make sure that everyone settles in well to their academic work and their life in Oxford, we offer a carefully balanced Welcome Week and a programme of academic support activities for all new students.

Univ is located right at the centre of the city, minutes away from the main libraries, lecture halls, laboratories, shops, restaurants, pubs, parks and the river. We can trace our origins back as far as 1249, but our beautiful old buildings have been fully modernised for 21st-century needs, and despite our city centre surroundings we have several peaceful courtyards and gardens with grass and trees.

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