Advice about Selecting a College
Oxford is a Collegiate University, in which every student of the University must also be a member of a college. For graduate students, a college typically provides subsidised accommodation and meals, library and computing facilities, sports equipment, and a social centre with a graduate common room and bar.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When completing your application you can either specify one college or permanent private hall on your application form by which you wish to be considered or you can select the "open" option which means you will be automatically allocated to a college. If you are already in discussion with a potential supervisor you may like to discuss this with them. You will not be able to amend your choice after subitting your application. Whether or not you state a college preference will not affect how your application is assessed.
If you are offered a place on the programme of graduate study to which you have applied, you will also be guaranteed a place at a college or permanent private hall. The college will contact you separately and make an offer of a place, subject to your satisfying any funding conditions required by it. The place offered will not, however, necessarily be at the college you have specified on your application form. Some are heavily over-subscribed and so not all applicants can be accepted at their specified college. Applicants in this position will be allocated a place elsewhere. The offer of a college place does not guarantee accommodation.
In choosing which college to nominate on your application form, you are advised to consult the colleges section of the Graduate Prospectus for details of facilities provided. In addition, you might like to consider selecting a college that has a member of staff from the Department of Computer Science associated with it, for example:
- Balliol College
- Keble College
- Kellogg College
- Linacre College
- Magdalen College
- Merton College
- Oriel College
- Pembroke College
- St. Annes College
- St Catherine's College
- St. Cross College
- St. Edmund Hall
- St. Hugh's College
- St. John's College
- Somerville College
- Trinity College
- University College
- Wadham College
- Wolfson College
- Worcester College
Further information about individual colleges can be found in the University Graduate Studies Prospectus.