Editing Exeter College, Oxford (section)

== Student life ==
[[File:Exeter Dining Hall.JPG|thumb|upright=1.3|left|Dining hall]]

Exeter has a reputation for having a close-knit student body. First-year undergraduates are housed on the college's Turl Street site, and there is dedicated graduate accommodation for the college on Iffley Road.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Accommodation |url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/students/accommodation/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Exeter College |language=en-GB}}</ref>

As the university's fourth oldest college,<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/about/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=Exeter College |language=en-GB}}</ref> a certain emphasis is placed on tradition, especially during special occasions such as the annual [[Burns Night]], a dinner in honour of the Scottish poet [[Robert Burns]], when a traditional meal of [[haggis]] is served. The college's ties with [[Williams College]] in the United States through the [[Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO)|Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford]], as well as the generally international composition of the MCR, makes the annual [[Thanksgiving]] dinner a popular occasion.<ref>{{cite web|title=Exeter College Oxford|url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/applicants/student-life/mcr/|work=ox.ac.uk|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Exeter College Oxford|url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/applicants/wepo/|work=ox.ac.uk|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

=== Choir ===
Exeter has a mixed-voice choir, made up of 24 singers, which is administered, conducted and accompanied solely by the Organ Scholars. It is the only college in either Oxford or Cambridge where a choir, run entirely by the Organ Scholar, sings three services a week, and has been heard recently on a number of broadcasts for BBC Radio 4's ''[[The Daily Service]]''. The college offers Choral and [[Hubert Parry|Parry]]–Wood Organ Scholarships, and former Organ Scholars include Robert Sharpe (Director of Music, [[York Minster]]), [[Christopher Herrick]] (International Concert Organist and former Organist, [[Westminster Abbey]]), and [[David Trendell]] (Director of Music, [[King's College London]]), as well as Directors of Music at [[Rugby School|Rugby]], [[Charterhouse School|Charterhouse]], [[Sherborne School|Sherborne]], and [[Latymer Upper School|Latymer Upper]] Schools.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/about/chapel/past-organists-and-organ-scholars/ |title=Past Organists and Organ Scholars  |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Exeter College, Oxford |access-date=13 July 2019 }}</ref>

=== Sports ===
{{See also|Exeter College Boat Club}}
[[File:Oxford - Exeter College Recreation Ground Houses.JPG|thumb|Exeter Recreation Ground buildings]]
Sports at Exeter College are not directly organised by the college itself, but rather by student-run clubs. Exeter College own their own sports grounds, which can be used by these student clubs within University Parks. The sports that have active student run clubs as of October 2023 are: [[Exeter College Boat Club|boating]], [[netball]], football, cricket, badminton, hockey, rugby, ice hockey, pool, darts, croquet, and lacrosse.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}

In March 2014 Exeter College Association Football Club defeated [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's College]] 2–1 in the final of the [[Cuppers]] tournament to lift the trophy for the first time in over 40 years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Exeter College Oxford|url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/exeter-college-afc-wins-cuppers-final/|work=ox.ac.uk|date=10 March 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> In May 2019 Turl Street Rugby, made up of students from Exeter College, [[Jesus College, Oxford|Jesus College]] and [[Lincoln College, Oxford|Lincoln College]], won Oxford's inaugural 15-a-side Women's Rugby Union Cuppers tournament.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-05-13 |title=Exeter students win first ever women's rugby cuppers |url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/exeter-students-win-first-ever-womens-rugby-cuppers/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Exeter College |language=en-GB}}</ref>
In May 2024, Exeter College Rugby Football Club secured the Cuppers Bowl Trophy with a narrow victory, defeating a combined team from St Catherine's, Mansfield, Corpus Christi, Somerville, and Merton Colleges by a score of 17-15.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=IanKench |date=2024-05-09 |title=Cuppers Finals Day Round Up |url=https://www.ourfc.org/post/cuppers-finals-day-round-up |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=OURFC |language=en}}</ref>