"The College of Oxford (legally The Chancellor Masters and also Scholars of the College of Oxford) is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is proof of teaching as very early as 1096, making it the earliest college in the English-speaking world as well as the globe's second-oldest college in continual operation. It proliferated from 1167 when Henry II outlawed English trainees from participating in the University of Paris. After disagreements in between pupils and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics got away north-east to Cambridge where they developed what came to be the University of Cambridge. The two "" old universities"" are regularly collectively called "" Oxbridge"". The background and impact of the University of Oxford have made it among the most distinguished universities on the planet.

The university is comprised of 39 component colleges, 6 permanent personal halls, and also a variety of scholastic divisions which are arranged right into four divisions. [14] All the universities are independent establishments within the college, each managing its very own membership as well as with its own internal framework and activities. It does not have a main campus, and its buildings as well as facilities are scattered throughout the city centre. Undergraduate teaching at Oxford is arranged around once a week tutorials at the colleges and halls, sustained by classes, talks, workshops, as well as lab job provided by college faculties and also departments; some postgraduate mentor, and also sometimes undergraduate mentor, includes tutorials organised by faculties as well as divisions. It runs the globe's oldest university gallery, along with the largest university press in the world and the biggest academic collection system across the country.

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 gives as well as contracts. The university is placed amongst the most effective greater discovering organizations by the majority of international as well as major national organization tables.

Oxford has educated a large range of noteworthy graduates, including 28 head of states of the UK and lots of presidents as well as government around the globe. As of November 2019, 72 Nobel Prize laureates, 3 Fields Medalists, as well as 6 Turing Honor champions have researched, worked, or held going to fellowships at the University of Oxford, while its alumni have won 160 Olympic medals. Oxford is the residence of many scholarships, including the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the oldest global graduate scholarship programmes."