University College - Student Life

Housing: College accommodation for 2 years; costly but on a par with other colleges.

Eats: Cheap college food, incl veggie option; main course from £1.50. Loads of places in High Street (fairly expensive, except multitude of kebab vans, Including the famous, Univ-based Ahmeds).

Drink: College bar excellent (£1.60+ a pint); other college bars cheap. Popular pubs eg, Hobgoblin. Chequers, Wheatsheaf, the Turf, Far From the Madding Crowd. Nightlife: College ents cheap and frequent; Union Society club Purple Turtle a popular Univ haunt, lots of new bands playing Oxford; good cinemas.

Locals: Generally friendly. Sports: Free facilities including sports ground and boathouse; squash court on site, and free use of state-of-the-art-gym just across the bridge at Magdalen College School.

Travel: Various college travel grants, including several summer travel scholarships (£5000) and Keasbey Bursary fund for student travel.

Financial help: Some £35,000 allocated by JCR each year; also several college funds and interest-free loans.

Jobs: In college bar and dining hall (free food - excellent fringe benefit), plenty jobs going about town, although it is requested by tutors that these are not sought. Most go home to work in vacations.

Informal name: Univ.

Best features: Inclusive community with friendly and diverse atmosphere.

And worst: Shelley Memorial.

More info: Contact JCR President on Tel: 01865 276606, email: jcr.president(at)univ.ox.ac.uk; or get the alternative prospectus from the JCR Academic Affairs Officer at jcr.academic(at)univ.ox.ac.uk

Past Students: V S Naipaul, C S Lewis, Percy Shelley, Clement Attlee, Roger Utley, Bill Clinton, Peter Snow, Bob Hawke, Stephen Hawking, Armando lanucci, Prince Youssouppof (Rasputin's murderer), Michael York, Andrew Motion.