About University of Oxford

Oxford - one of the "most-most" of World Universities. By age, he is second only to Bologna, and in the UK and the English speaking world is the oldest institution of higher education. To do here is not easy to study hard and have a diploma of Oxford, one of the best universities in the world, is very prestigious.

Story:

The exact date when it was founded by the University of Oxford, unfortunately, we do not know, but we know from old documents that the training here was conducted back in 1096. In 1167 it began the rapid development of the university and its transformation into one of the world's largest educational centers: the fact that the French King Henry II issued a decree according to which the British could no longer study at the University of Paris, so willing to gnaw granite science had to search for an educational institution at home. Oxford has become the place where young minds rushed.

AROUND 1190, OXFORD HAS ITS FIRST FOREIGN STUDENT AND BEGAN A TRADITION OF CLOSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY. IN THE XII CENTURY IT WAS FORMED FIRST COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY, AND AFTER ONLY A CENTURY OXFORD HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE LEADING UNIVERSITIES OF HIS TIME.

First, Oxford, as well as all higher education institutions of the Middle Ages, was the only place of training future priests, odnko gradually he became almost obligatory educational institution for members of high society. So far, Oxford is one of the most prestigious and famous universities in the world.

Programs:

At Oxford, you can be trained in different directions and explore mathematical, physical, social, human and natural sciences and medicine. Oxford offers the program of training leading to a bachelor's degree, masters and doctoral degrees, as well as short courses without obtaining a degree.

Number of Students:

2 thousand. Students. Of these, nearly 12 thousand. Enrolled in a bachelor degree. 62% of students enrolled in masters and postgraduate study in the UK came from abroad. Every year in Oxford offers about 3,200 seats in the Bachelor (at 17,000 applications) and 4500 graduate and postgraduate (at 20,000 applications).

Famous Graduates:

During its long history of Oxford has produced a lot of students who became famous in various fields. Oxford University - alma mater of the poet John Donne, the philosopher Thomas More, the economist Adam Smith, the writer Jonathan Swift, the architect Christopher Wren, the poet Percy Shelley Bisi, writer Oscar Wilde, philologist and writer John. R. R. Tolkien, writer Aldous Huxley, physics Stephen Hawking, the English King Edward VII and Edward VIII, Prime Minister Margaret Tetcher, Tony Blair and David Cameron, and many other representatives of science, politics and culture. Among the graduates of Oxford's many Nobel Prize winners.