Editing University of Oxford (section)

== Academic profile ==
=== Admission ===<!-- there is much more to say about the graduate admission -->
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|+ Undergraduate admission statistics
! 
! 2023<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Admissions Statistical Report June 2024 |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/AnnualAdmissionsStatisticalReport2024.pdf |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
! 2022<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Admissions Statistical Report May 2023 |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/AnnualAdmissionsStatisticalReport2023.pdf |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=1 June 2023 |archive-date=1 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601093612/https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/AnnualAdmissionsStatisticalReport2023.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
! 2021<ref>{{Cite web|title=Annual Admissions Statistical Report May 2022|url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/AnnualAdmissionsStatisticalReport2022.pdf|website=University of Oxford|access-date=19 June 2022|archive-date=26 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626110025/https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/AnnualAdmissionsStatisticalReport2022.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
! 2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=Annual Admissions Statistical Report May 2021|url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/AnnualAdmissionsStatisticalReport2021.pdf|website=University of Oxford|access-date=10 March 2023|archive-date=25 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325093931/https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/AnnualAdmissionsStatisticalReport2021.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
! 2019<ref>{{Cite web|title=Annual Admissions Statistical Report May 2020|url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/Annual%20Admissions%20Statistical%20Report%202020.pdf|website=University of Oxford|access-date=3 February 2021|archive-date=12 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312145003/https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/Annual%20Admissions%20Statistical%20Report%202020.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| '''Applications'''
|23,211
|23,819
|24,338
|23,414
|23,020
|-
| '''Offer Rate (%)'''
|16.0
|15.3
|14.6
|16.8
|16.9
|-
| '''Enrolments'''
|3,219
|3,271
|3,298
|3,695
|3,280
|-
| [[Yield (college admissions)|'''Yield (%)''']]
|86.5
|89.7
|92.8
|94.0
|84.3
|-
| '''Applicant/Enrolled Ratio'''
|7.21
|7.28
|7.38
|6.34
|7.02
|-
| '''[[UCAS Tariff|Average Entry Tariff]]'''<ref name="CUG Entry">{{Cite web | url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards | title=University League Tables entry standards 2024 | work=The Complete University Guide | access-date=7 June 2023 | archive-date=25 January 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125195135/https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?tabletype=full-table&sortby=entry-standards | url-status=live }}</ref>
|{{n/a}}
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|205
|201
|200
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|+ class="nowrap" |HESA Student Body Composition (2023/24)
|-
!Domicile<ref name="Table 1">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1|title=HE student enrolments by HE provider, permanent address, level of study, mode of study, entrant marker, sex and academic year|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref> and Ethnicity<ref name="HESA ethnicity">{{cite web|url=https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/whos-in-he/characteristics|title=Who's studying in HE?: Personal characteristics|date=3 April 2025|publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency|HESA]]|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
|[[White people in the United Kingdom|British White]]{{efn|Not be confused solely with [[White British]]}}
|align=right| {{bartable|46|%|2||background:red}}
|-
|[[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom#Collective terms for minority ethnic groups|British Ethnic Minorities]]{{efn|Includes those who indicate that they identify as [[British Asian|Asian]], [[Black British people|Black]], [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed Heritage]], [[British Arabs|Arab]] or any other ethnicity except White.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|18|%|2||background:green}}
|-
|[[European Union|International EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|8|%|2||background:blue}}
|-
|[[International students in the United Kingdom|International Non-EU]]
|align=right| {{bartable|28|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Undergraduate [[Widening participation|Widening Participation]] Indicators<ref name="Table 1"/><ref name="Times25">{{cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=Good University Guide: Social Inclusion Ranking |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings/league-table |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[Feminism in the United Kingdom#Education|Female]]
|align=right| {{bartable|53|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
|[[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Independent School]]
|align=right| {{bartable|31|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
|Low Participation Areas{{efn|Calculated from the Polar4 measure, using Quintile1, in England and Wales. Calculated from the [[Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation]] (SIMD) measure, using SIMD20, in Scotland.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|7|%|2||background:black}}
|}
[[File:Percentage of state-school students at Oxford and Cambridge.png|thumb|upright=1.25|Percentage of state-school students at Oxford and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN00616/SN00616.pdf |title=Oxbridge 'Elitism' |date=9 June 2014 |access-date=29 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307043908/http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN00616/SN00616.pdf |archive-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200203/ldhansrd/vo030605/text/30605w03.htm#30605w03_sbhd2 |title=Acceptances to Oxford and Cambridge Universities by previous educational establishment |access-date=17 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220081811/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200203/ldhansrd/vo030605/text/30605w03.htm#30605w03_sbhd2 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>]]

In common with most British universities, prospective undergraduate students apply through the [[UCAS]] application system, but prospective applicants for the University of Oxford, along with those for medicine, dentistry, and [[University of Cambridge]] applicants, must observe an earlier deadline of 15 October.<ref>{{cite web|title=UCAS Students: Important dates for your diary |quote=15 October 2009 Last date for receipt of applications to Oxford University, [[University of Cambridge]] and courses in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science or veterinary medicine. |url=http://www.ucas.com/students/importantdates |access-date=23 November 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201114118/http://ucas.com/students/importantdates |archive-date=1 February 2009 }}</ref> The [[Sutton Trust]] maintains that Oxford University and Cambridge University recruit undergraduates disproportionately from 8 schools which accounted for 1,310 Oxbridge places during three years, contrasted with 1,220 from 2,900 other schools.<ref>{{Cite news|date=7 December 2018|title=Oxbridge 'over-recruits from eight schools'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/education-46470838|access-date=22 January 2023|archive-date=22 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122190704/https://www.bbc.com/news/education-46470838|url-status=live}}</ref>

To allow a more personalised judgement of students, who might otherwise apply for both, undergraduate applicants are not permitted to apply to both Oxford and Cambridge in the same year. The only exceptions are applicants for [[organ scholar]]ships<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/assets/files/Chor_Org_Downloads/OrgAwards2009.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822114305/http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/assets/files/Chor_Org_Downloads/OrgAwards2009.pdf | archive-date=22 August 2012 |quote=It is possible for a candidate to enter the comparable competition at Cambridge which is scheduled at the same time of year. |title=Organ Awards Information for Prospective Candidates|publisher=Faculty of Music, University of Oxford |access-date=22 March 2009}}</ref> and those applying to read for a second undergraduate degree.<ref>{{cite web|title=UCAS Students FAQs: Oxford or Cambridge |quote=Is it possible to apply to both Oxford University and the University of Cambridge? |url=http://www.ucas.com/students/applying/faqs/eligibility/faq1 |access-date=23 November 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001013817/http://www.ucas.com/students/applying/faqs/eligibility/faq1 |archive-date=1 October 2009 }}</ref>
Oxford has the lowest offer rate of all Russell Group universities.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/10/19/which-elite-universities-have-the-highest-offer-rates/ |title=Which elite universities have the highest offer rates? |work=The Telegraph |date=19 October 2016 |access-date=20 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021201613/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/10/19/which-elite-universities-have-the-highest-offer-rates/ |archive-date=21 October 2016 |url-status=live |last1=Gurney-Read |first1=Josie }}</ref>

Most applicants choose to apply to one of the individual colleges. For undergraduates, these colleges work with each other to ensure that the best students gain a place somewhere at the university regardless of their college preferences. For postgraduates, all applicants who receive an offer from the university are guaranteed a college place, even if they do not receive a place at their chosen college.<ref>{{cite web |title=How do I choose a college? – Will I be interviewed only at my chosen college? |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/colleges/how_do_i_choose_a_college/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110064825/http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/colleges/how_do_i_choose_a_college/index.html |archive-date=10 January 2010 |access-date=23 November 2009 |publisher=University of Oxford |language=en-GB |publication-place=[[Oxford]]}}</ref>

Undergraduate shortlisting is based on achieved and predicted exam results, school references, and, in some subjects, written admission tests or candidate-submitted written work. Approximately 60% of applicants are shortlisted, although this varies by subject. If a large number of shortlisted applicants for a subject choose one college, then students who named that college may be reallocated randomly to under-subscribed colleges for the subject. The colleges then invite shortlisted candidates for interview, where they are provided with food and accommodation for around three days in December. Most undergraduate applicants will be individually interviewed by academics at more than one college. In 2020 interviews were moved online,<ref>{{cite news |title=Oxford University will interview prospective candidates online |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53242810 |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=30 June 2020 |archive-date=14 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214152040/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53242810 |url-status=live }}</ref> and they will remain online until at least 2027.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hedström-Blake |first1=Alexandra |title=Oxford admissions interviews to stay online |url=https://cherwell.org/2023/05/20/oxford-interviews-stay-online/ |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=[[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]] |date=20 May 2023 |archive-date=11 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240211215451/https://cherwell.org/2023/05/20/oxford-interviews-stay-online/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Undergraduate offers are sent out in early January, with each offer usually being from a specific college. One in four successful candidates receives an offer from a college that they did not apply to. Some courses may make "open offers" to some candidates, who are not assigned to a particular college until [[A Level]] results day in August.<ref>{{cite web |title=Open Offer Scheme |url=http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=462 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606054422/http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=462 |archive-date=6 June 2011 |access-date=23 November 2009 |publisher=Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford |language=en-GB |publication-place=[[Oxford]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Open Offer Scheme |url=http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduates/faqs/faq-admissions |publisher=Department of Physics, University of Oxford |access-date=27 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707214158/http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduates/faqs/faq-admissions |archive-date=7 July 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The university has come under criticism for the number of students it accepts from private schools;<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/dec/12/oxford-cambridge-state-school-admissions-failure |title=Oxford and Cambridge condemned over failure to improve state school access |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=12 December 2015 |access-date=2 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302164546/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/dec/12/oxford-cambridge-state-school-admissions-failure |archive-date=2 March 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> for instance, [[Laura Spence Affair|Laura Spence]]'s rejection from the university in 2000 led to widespread debate.<ref>{{cite news |title=Is Oxbridge elitist? |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/764767.stm |date=31 May 2000 |access-date=9 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531132009/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/764767.stm |archive-date=31 May 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2016, the University of Oxford gave 59% of offers to UK students to students from state schools, while about 93% of all UK pupils and 86% of post-16 UK pupils are educated in state schools.<ref name="BBC state" /><ref name="OU Facts">{{cite web |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/facts-and-figures/admissions-statistics/undergraduate-students/current/school-type?wssl=1 |title=School type |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=17 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916090455/https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/facts-and-figures/admissions-statistics/undergraduate-students/current/school-type?wssl=1 |archive-date=16 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Post16Ind">{{cite news |last=Garner |first=Richard |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/number-of-pupils-attending-independent-schools-in-britain-on-the-rise-figures-show-10215959.html |title=Number of pupils attending independent schools in Britain on the rise, figures show |work=[[The Independent]] |date=1 May 2015 |access-date=18 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918160530/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/number-of-pupils-attending-independent-schools-in-britain-on-the-rise-figures-show-10215959.html |archive-date=18 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> However, 64% of UK applicants were from state schools and the university notes that state school students apply disproportionately to oversubscribed subjects.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://public.tableau.com/views/UoO_UG_Admissions/SchoolType?%3Aembed=y&%3Adisplay_count=yes&%3AshowTabs=y&%3AshowVizHome=no|title=University of Oxford UG Application Statistics 2016 entry Applications by School Type|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=3 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303225409/https://public.tableau.com/views/UoO_UG_Admissions/SchoolType?%3Aembed=y&%3Adisplay_count=yes&%3AshowTabs=y&%3AshowVizHome=no|archive-date=3 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> The proportion of students coming from state schools has been increasing. From 2015 to 2019, the state proportion of total UK students admitted each year was: 55.6%, 58.0%, 58.2%, 60.5% and 62.3%.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Annual Admissions Statistical Report: May 2020 |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/Annual%20Admissions%20Statistical%20Report%202020.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312145003/https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/Annual%20Admissions%20Statistical%20Report%202020.pdf |archive-date=12 March 2021 |access-date=3 February 2021 |website=University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk) }}</ref> Oxford University spends over £6&nbsp;million per year on outreach programs to encourage applicants from underrepresented demographics.<ref name="BBC state">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37250916|title=Oxford University to have 'most state school students for decades'|work=[[BBC]]|last=Coughlon|first=Sean|date=2 September 2016|access-date=3 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315114119/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37250916|archive-date=15 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2018 the university's annual admissions report revealed that eight of Oxford's colleges had accepted fewer than three black applicants in the past three years.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44221469|title=Oxford failing on diversity says Lammy|date=23 May 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=23 May 2018|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523093208/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44221469|archive-date=23 May 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP [[David Lammy]] said, "This is social apartheid and it is utterly unrepresentative of life in modern Britain."<ref>{{Cite web|date=19 October 2017|first1=Richard |last1=Adams |first2=Helena |last2=Bengtsson |title=Oxford accused of 'social apartheid' as colleges admit no black students|url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/oct/19/oxford-accused-of-social-apartheid-as-colleges-admit-no-black-students|access-date=22 January 2023|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=15 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115013546/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/oct/19/oxford-accused-of-social-apartheid-as-colleges-admit-no-black-students|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2020, Oxford had increased its proportion of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students to record levels.<ref name="Yeomans">{{Cite news|last=Yeomans|first=Emma|date=5 February 2021 |title=Oxford University accepts over 100 black students|language=en|work=[[The Times]]|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/oxford-university-accepts-over-100-black-students-cngl73kpw |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=5 February 2021|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=5 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205024035/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oxford-university-accepts-over-100-black-students-cngl73kpw}}</ref><ref name="inews.co.uk-2021">{{Cite web|date=4 February 2021|title=Oxford University: Proportion of black and minority ethnic students rises to record high |first1=Will |last1=Hazell |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/education/oxford-university-black-minority-ethnic-students-record-high-858051|access-date=5 February 2021|website=inews.co.uk|language=en|archive-date=4 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204140054/https://inews.co.uk/news/education/oxford-university-black-minority-ethnic-students-record-high-858051|url-status=live}}</ref> The number of BAME undergraduates accepted to the university in 2020 rose to 684 students, or 23.6% of the UK intake, up from 558 or 22% in 2019; the number of Black students was 106 (3.7% of the intake), up from 80 students (3.2%).<ref name="inews.co.uk-2021" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Dunne|first=John|date=4 February 2021|title=Oxford University accepts record number of ethnic minority students|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/oxford-university-ethnic-minority-students-b918678.html|access-date=5 February 2021|website=Evening Standard |language=en|archive-date=4 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204185038/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/oxford-university-ethnic-minority-students-b918678.html|url-status=live}}</ref> UCAS data also showed that Oxford is more likely than comparable institutions to make offers to ethnic minority and socially disadvantaged pupils.<ref name="Yeomans" />

===Teaching and degrees=== <!-- there is much more to say about research than is currently stated-->
{{Main|Degrees of the University of Oxford|List of professorships at the University of Oxford|Undergraduate education at University of Oxford}}
Undergraduate teaching is centred on the tutorial, where 1–4 students spend an hour with an academic discussing their week's work, usually an essay (humanities, most social sciences, some mathematical, physical, and life sciences) or problem sheet (most mathematical, physical, and life sciences, and some social sciences). The university itself is responsible for conducting examinations and conferring degrees. Undergraduate teaching takes place during three eight-week academic terms: [[Michaelmas term|Michaelmas]], [[Hilary term|Hilary]] and [[Trinity term|Trinity]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Regulations on the number and length of terms |work=University of Oxford Examination Regulations |date= 29 September 2006 |url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/examregs/03-00_REGULATIONS_ON_THE_NUMBER_AND_LENGTH_OF_TERMS.shtml |access-date=9 October 2007 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527150600/http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/examregs/03-00_REGULATIONS_ON_THE_NUMBER_AND_LENGTH_OF_TERMS.shtml |archive-date=27 May 2008 }}</ref> (These are officially known as 'Full Term': 'Term' is a lengthier period with little practical significance.) Internally, the weeks in a term begin on Sundays, and are referred to numerically, with the initial week known as "first week", the last as "eighth week" and with the numbering extended to refer to weeks before and after term (for example "noughth week" precedes term).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://staff.admin.ox.ac.uk/working-at-oxford/new-to-the-university/university-year-and-events |title=University Year and Events |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Staff Gateway |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=22 April 2021 |quote= |archive-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422071736/https://staff.admin.ox.ac.uk/working-at-oxford/new-to-the-university/university-year-and-events |url-status=live }}</ref> Undergraduates must be in residence from Thursday of 0th week. These teaching terms are shorter than those of most other British universities,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hepi.ac.uk/files/33TheacademicexperienceofstudentsinEnglishuniversities2007.pdf |title=The Academic Experience of Students in English Universities (2007 report) |publisher=Higher Education Policy Institute |last1=Sastry |first1=Tom |last2=Bekhradnia |first2=Bahram |date=25 September 2007 |pages=footnote 14 |access-date=4 November 2007 |quote=Even within Russell Group institutions, it is remarkable how consistently Oxford and Cambridge appear to require more effort of their students than other universities. On the other hand, they have fewer weeks in the academic year than other universities, so the extent to which this is so may be exaggerated by these results. |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709220145/http://www.hepi.ac.uk/files/33TheacademicexperienceofstudentsinEnglishuniversities2007.pdf |archive-date=9 July 2013 }}</ref> and their total duration amounts to less than half the year. However, undergraduates are also expected to do some academic work during the three holidays (known as the Christmas, Easter, and Long Vacations).

=== Scholarships and financial support ===
[[File:Rhodes House Oxford 20040909.jpg|right|thumb|[[Rhodes House]] is home to the awarding body for [[Rhodes Scholarship]]s, often considered the world's most prestigious scholarship.]]
There are many opportunities for students at Oxford to receive financial help during their studies. The Oxford Opportunity Bursaries, introduced in 2006, are university-wide means-based bursaries available to any British undergraduate, with a total possible grant of £10,235 over a 3-year degree. In addition, individual colleges also offer bursaries and funds to help their students. For graduate study, there are many scholarships attached to the university, available to students from all sorts of backgrounds, from [[Rhodes Scholarship]]s to the relatively new Weidenfeld Scholarships.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Oxford targets bright young things of eastern Europe |work=The Guardian |location=UK |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/mar/22/highereducation.internationaleducationnews |date=22 March 2007 |access-date=9 October 2007 |first=Jessica |last=Shepherd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414051743/http://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/mar/22/highereducation.internationaleducationnews |archive-date=14 April 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> Oxford also offers the [[Clarendon Fund|Clarendon Scholarship]] which is open to graduate applicants of all nationalities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clarendon.ox.ac.uk/informationforapplicants/eligibility/ |title=Eligibility criteria, Clarendon Fund Scholarships |publisher=Clarendon.ox.ac.uk |access-date=11 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413150702/http://www.clarendon.ox.ac.uk/informationforapplicants/eligibility/ |archive-date=13 April 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Clarendon Scholarship is principally funded by [[Oxford University Press]] in association with colleges and other partnership awards.<ref>{{cite web |date=1 September 2011 |title=History of the Clarendon Fund |url=http://www.clarendon.ox.ac.uk/about/history/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413150925/http://www.clarendon.ox.ac.uk/about/history/ |archive-date=13 April 2014 |access-date=11 April 2014 |website=Clarendon Fund Scholarships |publisher=University of Oxford |language=en-AU |publication-place=[[Oxford]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Partnership awards |url=http://www.clarendon.ox.ac.uk/about/partnership/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413150734/http://www.clarendon.ox.ac.uk/about/partnership/ |archive-date=13 April 2014 |access-date=11 April 2014 |website=Clarendon Fund Scholarships |publisher=University of Oxford |language=en-GB |publication-place=[[Oxford]]}}</ref> In 2016, Oxford University announced that it is to run its first free online economics course as part of a "[[massive open online course]]" (MOOC) scheme, in partnership with a US online university network.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37975359 |title=Oxford University to launch first online 'Mooc' course |work=BBC News |date=15 November 2016 |access-date=21 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121081125/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37975359 |archive-date=21 November 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> The course available is called 'From Poverty to Prosperity: Understanding Economic Development'.

Students successful in early examinations are rewarded by their colleges with scholarships and [[exhibition (scholarship)|exhibitions]], normally the result of a long-standing endowment, although since the introduction of tuition fees the amounts of money available are purely nominal. Scholars, and exhibitioners in some colleges, are entitled to wear a more voluminous undergraduate gown; "commoners" (originally those who had to pay for their "commons", or food and lodging) are restricted to a short, sleeveless garment. The term "scholar" in relation to Oxford therefore has a specific meaning as well as the more general meaning of someone of outstanding academic ability. In previous times, there were "noblemen commoners" and "gentlemen commoners", but these ranks were abolished in the 19th century. "Closed" scholarships, available only to candidates who fitted specific conditions such as coming from specific schools, were abolished in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name="Crook">{{cite book |last=Crook |first=J Mordaunt |author-link=J. Mordaunt Crook |year=2008 |title=Brasenose: The Biography of an Oxford College |page=413 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-954486-8}}</ref>

=== Libraries ===
{{See also|Category:Libraries of the University of Oxford}}
[[File:Clarendon Building, Oxford, England - May 2010.jpg|thumb|[[Clarendon Building]], home to many senior [[Bodleian Library]] staff, previously housed the university's own central administration.]]
The university maintains the largest university library system in the UK,<ref name="uls">{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/libraries/index.html |title=Libraries |publisher=University of Oxford |archive-date=25 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125090133/http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/libraries/index.html |url-status=dead|df=dmy-all }}</ref> and, with over 11&nbsp;million volumes housed on {{convert|120|mi|km}} of shelving, the Bodleian group is the second-largest library in the UK, after the [[British Library]]. The Bodleian is a [[legal deposit]] library, which means that it is entitled to request a free copy of every book published in the UK. As such, its collection is growing at a rate of over three miles (five kilometres) of shelving every year.<ref>{{cite web |date=22 September 2005 |title=A University Library for the Twenty-first Century |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2005-6/supps/1_4743.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070902222824/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2005-6/supps/1_4743.htm |archive-date=2 September 2007 |access-date=9 October 2007 |work=University of Oxford |language=en-GB |publication-place=[[Oxford]]}}</ref>

The buildings referred to as the university's main research library, [[Bodleian Library|The Bodleian]], consist of the original Bodleian Library in the Old Schools Quadrangle, founded by [[Thomas Bodley|Sir Thomas Bodley]] in 1598 and opened in 1602,<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Thomas Bodley and his Library |work=[[Oxford Today]] |url=http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2001-02/v14n2/03.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009055336/http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2001-02/v14n2/03.shtml |archive-date=9 October 2006 |year=2002 |access-date=23 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Radcliffe Camera]], the [[Clarendon Building]], and the [[Weston Library]]. A tunnel underneath [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]] connects these buildings, with the Gladstone Link, which opened to readers in 2011, connecting the Old Bodleian and Radcliffe Camera.

The [[Bodleian Libraries]] group was formed in 2000, bringing the Bodleian Library and some of the subject libraries together.<ref name="timeline">{{cite web|url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/113853/BodLibs-TIMELINE-2000-2012.pdf|title=Timeline of Bodleian Libraries Events from 2000|access-date=16 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123105538/http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/113853/BodLibs-TIMELINE-2000-2012.pdf|archive-date=23 November 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> It now comprises 28<ref name="Bodleian_Libraries_list">{{cite web|url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/libraries/bodleian |title=Bodleian Libraries |publisher=[[Bodleian Library]] |archive-date=23 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123095722/http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/libraries/bodleian |url-status=dead}}</ref> libraries, a number of which have been created by bringing previously separate collections together, including the [[Sackler Library]], [[Bodleian Law Library|Law Library]], [[Bodleian Social Science Library, Oxford|Social Science Library]] and [[Radcliffe Science Library]].<ref name="timeline" /> Another major product of this collaboration has been a joint integrated library system, [[Oxford Libraries Information System|OLIS]] ('''O'''xford '''L'''ibraries '''I'''nformation '''S'''ystem),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bdlss/olis-ils |title= OLIS (Integrated Library System) |publisher=Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827200924/http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bdlss/olis-ils |archive-date=27 August 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> and its public interface, [[Search Oxford Libraries Online|SOLO]] ('''S'''earch '''O'''xford '''L'''ibraries '''O'''nline), which provides an electronic catalogue covering all member libraries, as well as the libraries of individual colleges and other faculty libraries, which are not members of the group but do share cataloguing information.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/solo |website=Oxford LibGuides |title=Contents – SOLO – Search Oxford Libraries Online|publisher=Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford|access-date=5 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618121121/http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/solo|archive-date=18 June 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Duke Humfrey's Library Interior 5, Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|[[Duke Humfrey's Library]] in the [[Bodleian Library]]]]
A new book depository opened in [[South Marston]], Swindon, in October 2010,<ref>{{Cite news |title = In Pictures: Swindon's £26m Bodleian book store opens |work = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_9062000/9062875.stm |date = 6 October 2010 |access-date = 10 September 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120520041325/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_9062000/9062875.stm |archive-date = 20 May 2012 |url-status = dead }}</ref> and recent building projects include the remodelling of the New Bodleian building, which was renamed the Weston Library when it reopened in 2015.<ref>{{cite web | title = New Bodleian building to be renamed Weston Library | work = Bodleian Libraries |publisher=University of Oxford | url = http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2009_mar_13 | date = 13 March 2009 | access-date = 27 March 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130323144008/http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2009_mar_13 | archive-date = 23 March 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="Weston Library Open">{{cite web |url=https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/news/2016/may-11 |website=Weston Library |title=HRH The Duke of Cambridge formally opens the Bodleian's Weston Library |publisher=University of Oxford |date=11 May 2016 |access-date=17 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917183144/https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/news/2016/may-11 |archive-date=17 September 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The renovation is designed to better showcase the library's various treasures (which include a Shakespeare [[First Folio]] and a [[Gutenberg Bible]]) as well as temporary exhibitions.

The Bodleian engaged in a mass-digitisation project with Google in 2004.<ref>{{cite web | title = Oxford-Google Digitization Programme | work = Bodleian Library | url = http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks | access-date = 9 October 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111129044607/http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks/ | archive-date = 29 November 2011 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Library Partners |url=https://www.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/library/partners.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305125240/http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/library/partners.html |archive-date=5 March 2013 |access-date=9 October 2007 |website=[[Google]] |language=en-US }}</ref> Notable electronic resources hosted by the Bodleian Group include the ''Electronic Enlightenment Project'', which was awarded the 2010 Digital Prize by the [[British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2010/2010_jan_20|title=Bodleian Libraries {{!}} Electronic Enlightenment awarded digital prize|website=bodleian.ox.ac.uk|access-date=26 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027063121/https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2010/2010_jan_20|archive-date=27 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Museums ===
{{See also|Category:Museums of the University of Oxford}}
[[File:Interior of Pitt Rivers Museum 2015.JPG|thumb|Interior of the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]]]]
Oxford maintains a number of museums and galleries, open for free to the public. The [[Ashmolean Museum]], founded in 1683, is the oldest museum in the UK, and the oldest university museum in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=Support Us |work=The Ashmolean |url=http://www.ashmolean.org/support/corporatesupport/about/ |access-date=10 October 2007 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503032502/http://www.ashmolean.org/support/corporatesupport/about/ |archive-date=3 May 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> It holds significant collections of art and archaeology, including works by [[Michelangelo]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[J. M. W. Turner|Turner]], and [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], as well as treasures such as the [[Scorpion Macehead]], the [[Parian Chronicle|Parian Marble]] and the [[Alfred Jewel]]. It also contains "[[Messiah Stradivarius|The Messiah]]", a pristine Stradivarius violin, regarded by some as one of the finest examples in existence.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oxford hosts UK's biggest Stradivarius exhibition |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22526768 |access-date=7 March 2023 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=14 May 2013 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307095917/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22526768 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Oxford University Museum of Natural History|University Museum of Natural History]] holds the university's zoological, entomological and geological specimens. It is housed in a large neo-Gothic building on [[Parks Road]], in the university's [[Science Area, Oxford|Science Area]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/|title=Oxford University Museum of Natural History Homepage|publisher=[[Oxford University Museum of Natural History]]|access-date=4 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027090448/http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/|archive-date=27 October 2007|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Map of Museums, Libraries and Places of Interest |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/maps_and_directions/#qmuseums_libraries_and_places_of_interest |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027080434/http://www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/maps_and_directions/#qmuseums_libraries_and_places_of_interest |archive-date=27 October 2007 |access-date=4 November 2007 |publisher=University of Oxford |language=en-AU |publication-place=[[Oxford]]}}</ref> Among its collection are the skeletons of a ''[[Tyrannosaurus|Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' and ''[[Triceratops]]'', and the most complete remains of a [[dodo]] found anywhere in the world. It also hosts the [[Charles Simonyi|Simonyi]] [[Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science|Professorship of the Public Understanding of Science]], currently held by [[Marcus du Sautoy]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Oxford Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science |url=https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/about-marcus/the-oxford-simonyi-professor-for-the-public-understanding-of-science/ |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=7 March 2023 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307102756/https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/about-marcus/the-oxford-simonyi-professor-for-the-public-understanding-of-science/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Adjoining the Museum of Natural History is the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]], founded in 1884, which displays the university's archaeological and anthropological collections, currently holding over 500,000 items. It recently built a new research annexe; its staff have been involved with the teaching of anthropology at Oxford since its foundation, when as part of his donation General [[Augustus Pitt Rivers]] stipulated that the university establish a lectureship in anthropology.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=van Keuren |first1=David K. |title=Museums and Ideology: Augustus Pitt-Rivers, Anthropological Museums, and Social Change in Later Victorian Britain |journal=[[Victorian Studies]] |date=1984 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=171–189 |jstor=3826763 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3826763 |access-date=7 March 2023 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307100546/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3826763 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Museum of the History of Science, Oxford|Museum of the History of Science]] is housed on Broad Street in the world's oldest-surviving purpose-built museum building.<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> It contains 15,000 artefacts, from antiquity to the 20th century, representing almost all aspects of the [[history of science]]. In the Faculty of Music on [[St Aldate's, Oxford|St Aldate's]] is the [[Bate Collection]] of Musical Instruments, a collection mostly of instruments from Western classical music, from the medieval period onwards. [[Christ Church Picture Gallery]] holds a large collection of [[old master]] paintings and drawings.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Katz |first1=Brigit |title=Thieves Steal Three Precious Artworks From Oxford Gallery |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-precious-artworks-swiped-oxford-gallery-180974434/ |access-date=7 March 2023 |work=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |date=17 March 2020 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307094948/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-precious-artworks-swiped-oxford-gallery-180974434/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Publishing ===
{{Main|Oxford University Press}}
The Oxford University Press is the world's second oldest and currently the largest [[university press]] by the number of publications.<ref name="publishing">{{cite news |last=Balter |first=Michael |date=16 February 1994 |title=400 Years Later, Oxford Press Thrives |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/16/news/16iht-presseduc.html |url-status=dead |access-date=28 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924191930/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/16/news/16iht-presseduc.html |archive-date=24 September 2011}}</ref> More than 6,000 new books are published annually,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://global.oup.com/about/way_we_work/|title=The Way We Work|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=27 May 2014|archive-date=27 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927195938/https://global.oup.com/about/way_we_work/?cc=us|url-status=live}}</ref> including many reference, professional, and academic works (such as the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', the ''[[Concise Oxford English Dictionary]]'', the ''[[Oxford World's Classics]]'', the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', and the ''[[Concise Dictionary of National Biography]]'').

=== Reputation and ranking ===
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[[File:Oxford 10 Years.png|thumb|upright=1.2|University of Oxford's [[Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom|national league table]] performance over the past ten years]]

Due to its age<ref name=BhopalMyers>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oWGmEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|page=12|title=Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege: Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|author1=Kalwant Bhopal|author2=Martin Myers|date=31 January 2023|isbn=9781000829105|access-date=21 February 2024|archive-date=23 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023225103/https://books.google.com/books?id=oWGmEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SJIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108|title=You2Uni: Decide. Prepare. Apply|page=108|author=Stella Cottrell|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|date=16 September 2017|isbn=9781137022431|access-date=21 February 2024|archive-date=23 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023225108/https://books.google.com/books?id=-SJIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108|url-status=live}}</ref> and its social and academic status,<ref name=Abbott>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx-0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA40|title=Student Life in a Class Society|author=Joan Abbott|publisher=Elsevier|page=40|date=17 May 2014|isbn=9781483186580|orig-date=1971|access-date=21 February 2024|archive-date=23 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023225107/https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx-0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA40|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Dent>{{cite journal|jstor=40220510|title=Old and New Universities|author=H. C. Dent|journal= Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors|publisher=[[American Association of University Professors]]|pages=88–91|issue=1|date=February 1944|volume=30 |doi=10.2307/40220510}}</ref> the University of Oxford is considered to be one of Britain's most prestigious or elite universities<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xwm4BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT100|page=92|title=The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain after the Coalition|author=M. Finn|publisher=Springer|date=20 February 2015|isbn=9781137491510|access-date=21 February 2024|archive-date=23 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023230357/https://books.google.com/books?id=xwm4BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT100|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Ol-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA89|title=Gentrification in a Global Context|author1=Rowland Atkinson|author2=Gary Bridge|publisher=Routledge|date=10 December 2004|page=89|isbn=9781134330652|access-date=21 February 2024|archive-date=23 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023225105/https://books.google.com/books?id=1Ol-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA89|url-status=live}}</ref> and to form, along with the [[University of Cambridge]], a top two that stand above other UK universities in this regard.<ref name=BhopalMyers/><ref name=Abbott/><ref name=Dent/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KLKoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT42|page=42|title=Meeting Jesus at University: Rites of Passage and Student Evangelicals|author=Edward Dutton|publisher=Routledge|date=5 December 2016|isbn=9781351918374|access-date=22 February 2024|archive-date=23 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023225128/https://books.google.com/books?id=KLKoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT42|url-status=live}}</ref>

Oxford is regularly ranked within the top five universities in the world in the ''[[Times Higher Education World University Rankings]]'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats|title=World University Rankings|date=26 September 2018|work=Times Higher Education |access-date=28 September 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021113908/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats|archive-date=21 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2018/09/26/an-expert-list-of-the-worlds-best-universities/#1a4003fe4f02|title=An Expert List of the World's Best Universities|last=Adams|first=Susan|work=Forbes|access-date=28 September 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928105708/https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2018/09/26/an-expert-list-of-the-worlds-best-universities/#1a4003fe4f02|archive-date=28 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as the [[Forbes]]'s World University Rankings.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Strauss |first=Karsten |date=23 September 2016 |title=The World's Top Universities 2016 |url=https://www.forbes.com/pictures/feki45ehlig/the-worlds-top-universi/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108155045/https://www.forbes.com/pictures/feki45ehlig/the-worlds-top-universi/ |archive-date=8 November 2020 |access-date=20 October 2016 |work=[[Forbes]] |language=en-US |publication-place=[[Jersey City, New Jersey|New Jersey]]}}</ref> It held the number one position in the ''Times Good University Guide'' for eleven consecutive years,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120614_2.html |title=Oxford tops Times Good University Guide for 11th year |date=14 June 2012 |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=30 December 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425184449/https://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120614_2.html |archive-date=25 April 2013 }}</ref> and the [[Oxford University Medical School|medical school]] has also maintained first place in the "Clinical, Pre-Clinical & Health" table of the ''Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings'' for the past seven consecutive years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Times Higher Education Clinical, Pre-Clinical & Health|date=14 September 2017|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2018/subject-ranking/clinical-pre-clinical-health#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats|access-date=25 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110005124/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2018/subject-ranking/clinical-pre-clinical-health#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats|archive-date=10 November 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2021, it ranked sixth among the universities around the world by [[SCImago Institutions Rankings]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?sector=Higher+educ.&country=all|title=SCImago Institutions Rankings – Higher Education – All Regions and Countries – 2021 – Overall Rank|website=scimagoir.com|access-date=11 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422183813/https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?sector=Higher%20educ.&country=all|archive-date=22 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''THE'' has also recognised Oxford as one of the world's "six super brands" on its ''World Reputation Rankings'', along with [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], [[Harvard University|Harvard]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], and [[Stanford University|Stanford]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Morgan|first=John|title=Top Six Universities Dominate THE World Reputation Rankings|date=January 1990 |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011/reputation-ranking/analysis|quote="The rankings suggest that the top six-...Stanford University and the University of Oxford – form a group of globally recognised "super brands".|access-date=7 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404153936/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011/reputation-ranking/analysis|archive-date=4 April 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The university is fourth worldwide on the ''[[U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking|US News]]'' ranking.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings?int=a27a09|title=Best Global Universities|website=US News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113052748/http://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings?int=a27a09|archive-date=13 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its [[Saïd Business School]] came 13th in the world in ''Financial Times'' ''Global MBA Ranking''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-ranking-2019 |work=[[Financial Times]] |title=Global MBA Ranking 2019 |date=12 September 2019 |access-date=12 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912040109/http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-ranking-2019 |archive-date=12 September 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Oxford was ranked 13th in the world in 2022 by the Nature Index, which measures the largest contributors to papers published in 82 leading journals.<ref name="Nature Index 2016">{{cite web |title=Ten institutions that dominated science in 2022 |url=https://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/generate/all/global/all |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214155457/https://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/generate/all/global/all |archive-date=14 December 2021 |access-date=28 May 2019 }}</ref><ref name="Nature Index FAQs">{{cite web|url=https://www.natureindex.com/faq#introduction1|title=Introduction to the Nature Index|access-date=28 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401154037/https://www.natureindex.com/faq#introduction1|archive-date=1 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> It is ranked fifth best university worldwide and first in Britain for forming [[Chief executive officer|CEOs]] according to the [[Mines ParisTech : Professional Ranking World Universities|''Professional Ranking World Universities'']],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boivigny.com/Classement-2011-des-universites-par-l-Ecole-des-Mines-le-french-ranking-par-excellence_a781.html |title=Classement 2011 des universités par l Ecole des Mines le french ranking par excellence |last=Mines ParisTech Professional Ranking World Universities |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925221025/http://www.boivigny.com/Classement-2011-des-universites-par-l-Ecole-des-Mines-le-french-ranking-par-excellence_a781.html |archive-date=25 September 2015 }}</ref> and first in the UK for the quality of its graduates as chosen by the recruiters of the UK's major companies.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/best-uk-universities-chosen-major-employers | location=London | work=Times Higher Education | title=The best UK universities chosen by major employers | date=12 November 2015 | access-date=16 November 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044555/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/best-uk-universities-chosen-major-employers | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=live }}</ref>

In the 2018 [[Complete University Guide]], all 38 subjects offered by Oxford rank within the top 10 nationally meaning Oxford was one of only two multi-faculty universities (along with [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]) in the UK to have 100% of their subjects in the top 10.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/who's-who-in-the-subject-league-tables/ |title=Who's Who in the Subject League Tables |publisher=Complete University Guide |access-date=12 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707084348/https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/who%27s-who-in-the-subject-league-tables/ |archive-date=7 July 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Computer Science, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics and Psychology were ranked first in the UK by the guide.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/oxford/performance |title=University of Oxford |publisher=Complete University Guide |access-date=12 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707134428/https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/oxford/performance |archive-date=7 July 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to the QS World University Rankings by Subject, the University of Oxford also ranks as number one in the world for four Humanities disciplines: English Language and Literature, [[Modern Languages]], [[Geography]], and History. It also ranks second globally for Anthropology, Archaeology, Law, Medicine, Politics & International Studies, and Psychology.<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Oxford|url=http://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-oxford|website=Top Universities|publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds|access-date=14 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914081837/http://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-oxford|archive-date=14 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>