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 must specify
one college or permanent private hall on your application form by which you
wish to be considered. An application form that does not specify a college
or permanent private hall will not be considered and may be returned to
you.
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 Computing
Laboratory associated with it, for example:
Further details of the application procedure and information about
individual colleges can be found in the University Graduate Studies Prospectus.
