There are few cities in the world like Oxford. Once the seat of kings, it has been a scholarly community for almost 900 years. Today it continues to be one of the most important intellectual and cultural centers in the world.
Founded in the Dark Ages, Oxford had acquired a reputation as a gathering place for scholars by the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066. The first Oxford college was founded in the mid-1200s. Today the University enrolls over 16,500 students in 35 colleges.
Oxford University has nurtured many famous figures who have gone on to shape England and the world, including no fewer than 23 prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair among them; an American president, Bill Clinton; twelve saints; and 86 archbishops. Oxford has also been home to great writers and thinkers like John Donne, John Locke, Percy Bysshe Shelley, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R.
Tolkien, W.H. Auden, and Oscar Wilde – as well as renowned scientists, such as Edmund Halley and Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Oxford is a city of legend and achievement – a city in which our students sense that history lives in every building, in every monument, and on every street. They rapidly come to feel, as John Keats did, that Oxford is “the finest city in the world.”
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