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The University of Oxford is the second oldest university in the world located in Oxford, UK. It is a federation of over 40 colleges and halls and has over 11 million volumes housed across its 102 libraries. The university has no age limits for admission and maintains notable museums including the Ashmolean Museum and Museum of Natural History.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is the second oldest university in the world located in Oxford, UK. It is a federation of over 40 colleges and halls and has over 11 million volumes housed across its 102 libraries. The university has no age limits for admission and maintains notable museums including the Ashmolean Museum and Museum of Natural History.

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University

of Oxford
INTRODUCTION
The University of Oxford
is an university located in Oxford, United
Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving
university in the world and the oldest in the
English-speaking world. Although its exact
date of foundation is unclear, there is
evidence of teaching as far back as 1096.
The University grew rapidly from 1167 when
Henry I banned English students from
attending the University of Paris.
ORGANISATION
The university is a federation: it
comprises over forty self-governing
colleges and halls, along with a
central administration headed by
the Vice-Chancellor. The academic
departments are located centrally
within this structure; they are not
affiliated with any particular college.
ADMISSION
Age
Oxford has no upper or lower limit on the age of those
admitted as undergraduates.
Historically, it was common for boys to become members of
the university between the ages of fourteen and nineteen. At
the present time, the usual age range of those admitted to
study for first degrees begins at about seventeen, although
the majority are eighteen or nineteen.

Access
Students who apply from state schools and colleges have
a broadly comparable acceptance rate to those from
independent schools. However, most pupils who are
accepted from state schools come from 'elite' grammar
and selective schools, rather than comprehensives.
LIBRARIES
Oxford has 102 libraries, of which 30 belong to the
Bodleian Library group, Oxford's central research
library. With over 11
million volumes housed on 120 miles (190 km) of
shelving, the Bodleian group is the second-largest
library in the UK, after the British Library.
MUSEUMS
Oxford maintains a number of museums and
galleries in addition to its libraries. The
Ashmolean Museum, founded in 1683, is the
oldest museum in the UK, and the oldest
university museum in the world
THE MUSEUM OF
NATURAL HISTORY
The Museum of Natural History holds the
University's anatomical and natural
history specimens. It is housed in a large
neo-Gothic building on Parks Road, in
the University's Science Area. Among its
collection are the skeletons of a
Tyrannosaurus rex and
triceratops, and the most complete
remains of a dodo found anywhere in
the world.
REPUTATION
In the subject tables of the Times Good
University Guide 2008, Oxford is ranked as
the top university in the UK with
Cambridge as the second.
Oxford is ranked first in Polities,
Physiological Sciences, English, Fine Art,
Business Studies, Middle Eastern and
African Studies, Music, Philosophy, and
also Education and Linguisties which it
shares first with Cambridge.
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