Academic Philosophy

Oxbridge Helps Students Discover The World's Greatest Classrooms.

Our leading study abroad programs offer a uniquely comprehensive pre-college experience. Our students learn from top academics and industry professionals, live in some of the world's best universities, and immerse themselves in remarkable cultures. We also offer language immersion programs in France and Spain where they can perfect their French or Spanish. We are proud of our esteemed faculty, and list all their biographies. Every course uses the city like a classroom with true experiential learning that takes full advantage of the local museums, historical sites, laboratories, and guest speakers available.

History of Oxbridge

The first Oxbridge study abroad program took place 35 years ago, in Oxford. It was designed to give bright and enthusiastic students an opportunity to do something that they could not do at school, namely spend a month immersing themselves in the subjects of their choice, guided by university teachers and recognized professionals, using Oxford’s extraordinary resources as an experiential learning tool.

A great deal has changed over the intervening 35 years. Competition for places at the best universities has become merciless; extra-study during the vacation, once the habit of an eccentric minority, has become standard for virtually any student hoping to attend a good college; studying abroad, once the preserve of a fortunate few, has become an achievable goal for many.

Oxbridge, too, has changed.

That first summer we welcomed 36 students, who chose their courses from a tiny handful of options. Today we are proud to welcome almost 2000 students, aged between 11 and 18, drawn from 86 countries, to 15 programs that take place in 9 great cities, and, depending on the program, last between a week and a month.

As it was in 1986, the aim of every Oxbridge study abroad program is to immerse students in subjects that fascinate them, in small groups, using experiential learning tactics that turn them into fully-fledged partners in the learning process, while the town in which the program is taking place becomes their living classroom.

The other founding principle to which Oxbridge has held fast is that its classes are taught by university teachers and eminent professionals. Our faculty is made up of a dazzling array of researchers and lecturers, Rhodes scholars, Gates scholars, published writers and poets, award-winning filmmakers and architects, drawn from the best universities in the world, exceptional scholars and artists whose brilliance is only matched by the generosity with which they give up their summers to pass their knowledge on to the next generation.

Knowledge for its own sake, however, has never been at the core of Oxbridge. If the past 35 years have taught us anything, it is that good grades alone do not make for personal success. Universities increasingly look beyond grades, for evidence of individuality, confidence, and character, for the sorts of personal qualities that can only be discovered, harnessed, and burnished through challenging experience.

By taking students out of their comfort zones, by placing them in new environments and situations, by making them confront new ideas and cultures, by making them live and interact with peers from 86 countries, Oxbridge is precisely one of those experiences, one in which students undergo a transformation in their sense of themselves, their own capabilities, and the place of learning and creativity in their lives.

For the right student, there is nothing like it.

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