Oxford University in general Reviews

It's not all dreaming spires, spending lazy days punting along the Isis, and sipping port at black tie dinners. While public opinion of Oxford does tend to be dominated by these rare and elusive delights, the practicalities of a life in Oxford are much less attractive; they don't tell you you'll be judged as an elitist before speaking, that you'll ...  Read the complete review

Oxford seems to have generated so many myths around itself and these get perpetuated year on year. You should know you don't have to be cleverer than Einstein, discoverer of the cure for cancer and Mother Teresa all in one before you even think of applying! The University of Oxford, or to give its Latin name Universitas Oxoniensis, is ...  Read the complete review

Arriving onto the cobbles of Merton Street in the dark and cold of December, never having been to Oxford before, and being expected to justify my claim to being vaguely clever under the sharp gaze of some of the world's brightest minds in the fields of Politics, Philosophy and Economics, was a tad daunting I must admit. Corpus Christi is one of ...  Read the complete review

I have experience of Merton College in Oxford because I was invited for interview after applying for a place to read Mathematics. Unfortunately after the interview process I did not receive an offer for a place but I have experience of the college. Merton like other colleges is an old college with old quaint buildings and lots of character. ...  Read the complete review

I had my Oxford interview in December 2004 as well, for Law. After alighting from the train, it took me a while to find my college (at night) - but that's probably more due to my lack of direction! Keble is actually very easy to find if you have a map (try the one at back of prospectus). If all else fails, a taxi single way is around £5 - ...  Read the complete review

applied for Archaeology & Anthropology at Keble Collge, Oxford for entry in 2005. I had my interview in December 2004, and so I shall recount my experiences of Keble, and of Oxford as a whole. KEBLE Keble is a very beautiful college. You can see pictures of it on the Oxford website, but this really is nothing ...  Read the complete review

The English Language and Literature course at Oxford covers everything from Old English to the present day - and almost everything else in between! Obviously there isn't time to read every book ever written in three years even if you don't do anything else, but every period is covered. Anglo Saxon is now optional, much to the relief of ...  Read the complete review

I am now in my last year in Oxford university at Exeter college and I have enjoyed every minute here so far. I still remember back to the days of my interviews thought. They were some of the most boring days of my life. No over universities are cheeky enough to make you travel hundreds and possibly thousands of mile just so that they can test your ...  Read the complete review

Well, here I am, a mere Secondary Modern 6th Form Student, applying to Oxford 'Just to see if I have what it takes'. On the morning of the first day of the interviews, Dad drove me to the Park and Ride, and from there I was on my own, having to fend for myself at Corpus Christi College for 2 or 3 days. Having not often gone out ...  Read the complete review

Oxford University is one of the most prestigious in the world. It may be second to Cambridge in the Times league table, but really this is relatively insignificant. The truth is that there are many top quality universities, and I shall not pretend that Oxbridge is automatically superior, when in reality places like York, Durham, etc can all offer ...  Read the complete review

...assuming I can think of ten that is. Still shouldn't be too difficult given what a great place it is. So here we go in no particular order... Buildings: As in historical and beautiful. My review of the City ('Could You Direct me to the University please') goes into more detail but some of the colleges are very pretty: ...  Read the complete review

I studied Biological Sciences at Oxford University between 1994 and 1997, attending Brasenose College, in the centre of the city of Oxford. Personally, I found it an extremely rewarding experience, and think that I got a superb education there. I'm prepared to accept that other universities might offer equally good biology courses, and that ...  Read the complete review

silly spelling mistakes corrected 01/01/01 (oooh, what an exciting date!) Okay, you've decided to apply to Oxford. But there are just sooooo many colleges- how do you choose? Well, I'm not exactly writing from a balanced perspective, since obviously I only attend one college- but I think it's such a fantastic place ...  Read the complete review

As the government calls for an extra 7000 doctors to be trained in the next few years, increasing pressures are being laid on the existing medical schools to stretch their already full teaching schedules with even more students. The pressure is perhaps being felt particularly strongly at Oxford, the smallest medical school year in ...  Read the complete review

I have recently completed a four year degree at Oxford University, and I loved it. I don't wear tweed, I don't talk with a plum in my mouth, I came from a state school. And there were lots of people there just like me! Oxford (or rather, each individual college) lets in the best people that apply for each subject each year. This is ...  Read the complete review

We have two daughters who have graduated this year, the elder from Edinburgh University after a 4 year MA course (Class 2.1) and the younger from a 3 year Oxford degree (Class 1). Both attended an Edinburgh comprehensive school without a strong Oxbridge tradition but with a generally good academic performance. The elder applied to ...  Read the complete review

Not terribly poor, but certainly more so than most of my comtemporaries, back in the early 70s when I studied at Oxford (Merton College). Did it matter - no, not really. I always seemed to have enough in my pocket to have the odd pint or two in the college bar at 15 pence a pint. Did my working class background matter - again, I ...  Read the complete review

Being the only Oxford college which is still single-sex, St Hilda's naturally gets a lot of stick from all sides. Why not go mixed? Isn't college life dull without blokes? Is it like the Chalet School or Mallory Towers in there - do they just talk about knitting and hockey, or what? Having been to St HIlda's and having ...  Read the complete review

First of all, it goes without saying that Oxford is not at all elitist, anti-state school or "snobby". Anyone who tells you it is is either misinformed or lying. It is true, however, that there is a lot of hard work involved. The typical arts subject will involve at least two essays every week, which you simply have to do. ...  Read the complete review

On wednesday I visited many of the colleges in Oxford. Balliol stood out amongst others including famous colleges such as Trinity, due to the fact it was friendly and one didn't feel clostrophobic when viewing the college. What I found was that many of the colleges were much smaller than expected and so I felt a staggering sense of ...  Read the complete review