University of Oxford

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The city of Oxford is prominent by its famous university with first-class education and has a population of fewer than 200000 . The beautiful buildings in Oxford demonstrate a fine example of English heritage and architecture. Oxford has the finest architecture in Britain. Some of its colleges, chapels and libraries are there, four and even five hundred years old, and are full of books and precious paintings. You can see there many lovely gardens, where the students can read and relax in the summer months. This university town is very beautiful.

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The University of Oxford is the second oldest university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Oxford is one of the best universities in the world – it has produced 4 British kings and at least 8 foreign kings, 47 Nobel prize-winners, 26 British Prime Ministers, 28 foreign presidents / prime ministers,7saints, 86 archbishops, 18 cardinals, and one pope. Seven of the last eleven British Prime Ministers have been Oxford graduates. There are many famous scientists, artists and prominent figures among Oxford students in nearly every profession, for example, writer Oscar Wilde, politician Margaret Thatcher and the physicist Robert Boyle, who performed his most important research in Oxford University .

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Oxford University dates back to the 12th century, and today there are 39 colleges in its structure, each with its own governing body. The university had no buildings in its early years - lectures were given in hired halls or churches. The first of these colleges, University College , was founded in 1249 . Balliol College was founded in 1263 , and Merton College in 1264. The colleges began as medieval halls of residence for students under the super- vision of a Master.

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During the early history of Oxford its reputation was based on theology and the liberal arts. But it also gave more serious treatment to the phy - sical sciences than did the University of Paris. In the early 13th century students learned seven subjects - grammar, rhetoric (the art of public speaking ), astronomy, logic, arithmetic , geometry and music .

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There were no women at Oxford until 1878. The first women's college at Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall, was founded in 1878, and women were first admitted to full membership in the university in 1920. Now most colleges are opened for men and women. In the 20th century science became much more serious and professional, and many new faculties were added, including ones for modern langua - ges , political science and economics . Postgraduate studies also expanded greatly in the 20th century .

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There are over 21000 students at Oxford, including 11723 undergradu - ates and 9327 postgraduates, many of them are from other countries. The Oxford University has the Bodleian Library and it is the largest in the UK four-hundred-year-old univer-sity library holding over nine million printed items . Also there is a Museum of Art and Archaeology in the Oxford University and the Oxford Univer - s ity Press , established in 1478, is one of the largest and most prestigious univer - sity publishers in the world.

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It is not easy to get a place at Oxford University to study for a degree. But outside the university there are many smaller private colleges which offer less difficult courses and where it is easy to enroll. Most students in these private schools take business , secretarial or English language courses .

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Interesting facts about the Oxford University. There is an Oxfords electric bell . This bell rings continuously from 1840 and it places in one of the Oxford University laboratories. Its work is based on the electrostatic effect and nothing was changed in its structure since the creation of this unique bell. Constantly working for more than 170 years bell is one of the longest experiments in the history.

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There is a traditional b oat r ace on the River Thames between the teams of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. It is called « Oxford-Cambridge-Regatta ». Every year since 1856 in the last Saturday of March or in the first Saturday of April two teams start the race with 6779 metres length. The team of Cambridge University has a blue uniform and the team from Oxford has a deep - blue dress.