Oxford University

Oxford University, one of the best universities of the world was organized with the motto of “The Lord is my Light”. This university is a unique and historic institution which was established in the English-speaking world. This is one of the oldest universities of the world whose date of establishment is still unknown. But this university has evidence of teaching since 1096 A.D., it means that it was established since 919 years ago. This is the second oldest university of the world which is surviving till now. This university is located in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. The chancellor of Oxford University is Mr. Chris Patten and the vice-chancellor is Mr. Andrew Hamilton. There are altogether 22,116 in this university, among them 11,772 students who are undergraduates, 9,850 students are postgraduates and 494 students are from other field. This university is not an individual institution instead; it is a combination of many institutions and colleges. Variety of institutions including 38 constituent colleges and academic departments were combined to form this university. According to the data of 2014, the investment required to establish this university including colleges is £4.355 billion. This institution does not have its main campus. All the internal structure and activities of the colleges are governed and controlled by the owner itself. This university is also operating the largest university press of the world as well as the largest academic library system in the United Kingdom. This university has educated many notable alumni, which also includes 27 Nobel laureates, 26 British prime ministers and many foreign heads of state.

The University of Oxford is established with their some strategies. The objective of this university is to lead the whole world in the field of research and education. This institution always tries to achieve their objectives by giving some benefits to the society, the nation and the global too. The history of the university is itself the strength of the institution. This institution offers such kind of environment to its students which are supportive as well as favorable for learning something. The institution has set a high-level agenda which they have to cover it within the time period of 2013 to 2018. They have planned to contribute to public policy-making and economic growth by developing the capacity of generating and sharing knowledge all over the world. They want work properly by cooperating with other organization and institutions in order to develop the structure of the university and colleges. They give first priority to the future of their students and they does not affect in the success of the students just because of financial problems. This university ensures to provide the high quality education to its students. This institution has also aimed to contribute to the social, cultural and economic life of the people of Oxford city.

The University of Oxford has individual departments, faculties and other field too. All of them are categorized into four academic divisions and they are:

1.            Humanities

2.            Medical Sciences

3.            Social Sciences

4.            Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences

The division of humanities includes following faculties, departments and centre:

•             Classics faculty

•             Faculty of English language and literature

•             Faculty of history

•             Faculty of medieval and modern languages

•             Faculty of linguistics, philology and phonetic, and phonetics laboratory

•             Ruskin school of art

•             Rothermere American institute

•             The oxford research centre in the humanities

•             Faculty of music

•             Voltaire foundation

•             Faculty of theology and religion

•             Faculty of oriental studies

•             Faculty of philosophy

Similarly, the division of mathematics, physical and life sciences includes following departments, faculties and centre:

•             Department of chemistry

•             Beg-broke science park

•             Department of earth sciences

•             Department of computer sciences

•             Oxford e-research centre

•             Department of engineering science

•             Mathematical institute

•             Department of physics

•             Department of plant sciences

•             Department of materials

•             Department of zoology

•             Department of statistics

The division of medical sciences also includes following departments, faculties and centre:

•             Nuffield department of surgical sciences

•             Nuffield department of primary health care health sciences

•             Nuffield of population health

•             Department of psychiatry

•             Department of pharmacology

•             Department of physiology, anatomy and genetics

•             Sir William Dunn school of pathology

•             Department of biochemistry

•             Nuffield department of clinical medicine

•             Nuffield department of clinical neurosciences

•             Radcliffe department of medicine

•             Department of experimental psychology

•             Nuffield department of obstetrics and gynecology

•             Department of pediatrics

•             Nuffield department of orthopedics, rheumatology and musculoskeletal

•             Department of oncology

In the same way, the division of social sciences also consists of following faculties, department and centre:

•             School of archaeology

•             Blavatnik school of government

•             School of anthropology and museum ethnography

•             Department of economics

•             Department of education

•             Department of sociology

•             School of geography and the environment

•             Department of international development

•             School of interdisciplinary area studies

•             Faculty of law

•             Oxford internet institute

•             Oxford martin school

•             Oxford-man institute of quantitative finance

•             Department of politics and international relation

•             Department of social policy and intervention

•             Said business school

This university always tries its best to enhance the ability of its students. Different advanced technology and methods are used in learning and teaching process in this institution. That’s why students of Oxford University have good knowledge on their respective faculty. So, this institution has provided productive manpower for today’s generation.

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