"The University of Oxford (legally The Chancellor Masters and also Scholars of the College of Oxford) is a collegiate research study college in Oxford, England. There is evidence of mentor as very early as 1096, making it the oldest college in the English-speaking globe and the world's second-oldest college in continual procedure. It proliferated from 1167 when Henry II outlawed English pupils from going to the University of Paris. After disputes in between pupils and also Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge. Both "" ancient universities"" are often collectively called "" Oxbridge"". The background and also influence of the University of Oxford have actually made it one of one of the most prestigious universities worldwide.

The university is composed of 39 component colleges, six irreversible exclusive halls, as well as a series of scholastic departments which are organised right into 4 departments. [14] All the universities are self-governing establishments within the university, each controlling its own subscription and also with its own internal framework and also tasks. It does not have a primary school, as well as its structures and centers are scattered throughout the city centre. Undergraduate training at Oxford is arranged around once a week tutorials at the colleges and also halls, sustained by courses, talks, workshops, and research laboratory job supplied by university professors and divisions; some postgraduate training, and periodically undergraduate mentor, includes tutorials arranged by professors as well as divisions. It operates the globe's oldest college museum, as well as the biggest university press in the world and the biggest scholastic collection system nationwide.

In the fiscal year finishing 31 July 2019, the college had a complete earnings of ₤ 2.45 billion, of which ₤ 624.8 million was from research study gives and agreements. The college is placed amongst the best greater discovering institutions by most worldwide and significant national organization tables.

Oxford has actually informed a wide range of noteworthy graduates, including 28 head of states of the UK and numerous presidents and federal government all over the world. As of November 2019, 72 Nobel Prize laureates, 3 Fields Medalists, as well as 6 Turing Honor champions have actually examined, worked, or held going to fellowships at the College of Oxford, while its graduates have actually won 160 Olympic medals. Oxford is the house of countless scholarships, consisting of the Rhodes Scholarship, among the earliest international graduate scholarship programmes."