University of Oxford

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The Institution of Oxford is a college research university located in the English city of Oxford. As early as 1096, there is evidence of instruction taking place, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest institution in the world to still be in continuous operation. From 1167, when Henry II forbade English students from joining the University of Paris, the university flourished at a fast pace. Following a series of disagreements between students and the citizens of Oxford in 1209, several academics moved north-east to Cambridge, where they founded what would become the University of Cambridge. Oxbridge refers to the two old English universities that share many characteristics and are collectively referred to as Oxbridge. Oxford University is considered to be one of the most prominent institutions in the world.

The university is made up of 39 semi-autonomous component colleges, six permanent private halls, and a variety of academic departments that are organised into four divisions. The university is divided into four divisions. Within the university, each college is a self-governing entity, which means that each college is in charge of its own membership and has its own internal organisation and activities. All students are considered to be members of a college. It does not have a central campus; instead, its buildings and amenities are dispersed around the city centre and surrounding areas. Lectures, small-group tutorials at the colleges and halls, seminars, laboratory work, and, on occasion, additional tutorials given by the central university faculties and departments make up the bulk of undergraduate instruction at Oxford.

As well as the world's oldest university museum, Oxford also has the world's biggest university press and the largest academic library system in the United Kingdom, both of which are located in Oxford. The university earned a total of £2.45 billion in revenue for the fiscal year that ended on July 31, 2019, with research grants and contracts accounting for £624.8 million of that total.

Oxford has generated a diverse group of distinguished alumni, including 28 prime leaders of the United Kingdom and several heads of state and government from throughout the globe. Its graduates have earned 160 Olympic medals and 72 Nobel Prizes, as of October 2020. The University of Oxford has produced three Fields Medalists and six Turing Award winners, and it has studied, worked, or had visiting fellowships with a total of 72 Nobel Prize winners. A large number of scholarships are available in Oxford, including the Rhodes Scholarship, which is one of the oldest international graduate scholarship programmes in the world.