Six months after graduation 90% of students who graduated in the year ending July 2008 were employed or engaged in further study.
Every year almost 15,000 people take part in courses offered by the Department for Continuing Education, making Oxford University one of the largest providers of continuing education in the UK.
Undergraduate Admissions and Access
Over 17,000 people applied for an undergraduate place for entry in 2010, an increase of 12 per cent on the previous year.
Applications for undergraduate places have risen by 61 per cent over the last ten years. The number of places available has remained roughly the same.
Oxford receives, on average, five applications for each available place.
98.2 per cent of those taking A-levels who enter the University achieve grades of AAA or better.
The collegiate University conducts more than 24,000 interviews for around 10,000 applicants over the two-week interview period in December.
Oxford’s bursary scheme, the Oxford Opportunity Bursaries, is one of the most generous undergraduate bursary schemes in the UK. It is worth up to £10,550 for a three year degree course or £13,775 for a four year degree course. In contrast, the typical annual bursary in England for a student receiving the full maintenance grant is £900.
Nearly 2,000 bursaries worth, in total, £4.5 million were awarded in the academic year 2008-9 to undergraduates, PGCE students and Graduate Entry Medical students.
Oxford spent 28 per cent of its additional fee income in 2008-9 on bursaries for lower income students.
In 2008-9, the University and colleges spent around £2.8m on outreach activities, in addition to the almost £5m a year spent on bursaries.
In 2008-9, staff from across the collegiate University conducted over 1500 outreach activities with groups from primary age upwards, including summer schools, school visits, student shadowing schemes, e-mentoring, aspiration days and events for teachers.
The majority of Oxford’s UK undergraduates come from state schools. Latest figures show that, for UK students attending schools or colleges in the UK, 55.4 per cent of places on undergraduate courses went to applicants from the maintained sector, and 44.6 per cent went to applicants from the independent sector.
Postgraduate Admissions
The University received 17,000 applications for postgraduate study for entry in 2009.
Graduate students make up 40 per cent of the total student body.
63 per cent of graduate students at Oxford are from outside the UK.
At graduate level, 57 per cent of students are studying for a higher degree by research, and 43 per cent are following postgraduate taught courses.
Oxford is responding to the demands of students and employers by developing a range of new taught masters courses, many of which cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries. These include: Contemporary India; Film Aesthetics; Law and Finance; Major Programme Management; Medicinal Chemistry for Cancer; Modern Chinese Studies; Social Science of the Internet; and Software and Systems Security.
Oxford International
More than a third (38 per cent) of our academic staff, including 30 per cent of teaching and research staff and 43 per cent of research-only staff, are citizens of foreign countries.
Our staff come from 85 different countries. The largest groups of international academic staff are from the USA, Germany, China and Hong Kong, Australia, France and Italy.
The number of international academic staff at Oxford has risen by 57 per cent in just five years (2003-2008).
Over a third (35 per cent) of our total student body - more than 7,100 students - are citizens of foreign countries, including 14 per cent of full-time undergraduates and 63 per cent of full-time graduate students.
Students come to Oxford from 142 countries and territories. The largest groups of international students come from the USA (1,421), China and Hong Kong (705), Germany (632), Canada (355), India (308), Australia (253), France (198), Ireland (188) and Italy (178).
Oxford has more than a dozen centres and institutes specialising in the study of specific countries and regions.
Oxford is the leading centre for the study of China in Europe and has one of the top five departments in the world in Japanese Studies.
Oxford is one of the leading centres for the study of globalisation, through the James Martin 21st Century School, the Programme on Global Economic Governance, the Oxford Department of International Development (which created the world’s first refugee studies programme), and our global health programmes.
Oxford’s Centre for Tropical Medicine conducts cutting edge research at its laboratories in Kenya, Vietnam and Thailand.
Oxford boasts one of the most extensive global alumni networks in the world, with 160 branches in over 60 countries.
There are more than 46,000 Oxford alumni resident in 188 countries outside the UK.joozone.com