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Christ Church College, Oxford

Christ Church in Oxford occupies a large secluded site close to the city centre and the main University facilities, and adjacent to the beautiful expanse of Christ Church Meadow, which stretches down to the Thames and to the Cherwell. The fine buildings were built over five centuries and provide comfortable accommodation of a high standard for all our undergraduates for the whole of their course.

The magnificent 18th-century library, the largest college library in Oxford, is responsive to our undergraduates' needs. The Librarian encourages and is pleased to consider their requests. There is also a separate law library with a valuable and increasing collection of legal works. The well-equipped College computer room is accessible 24 hours a day, and more than 80 per cent of rooms have an internet socket.

Christ Church is generous with grants for books, travel and other academic purposes as well as for unforeseen hardship.

We also encourage and support the pursuit of a wide range of non-academic activities. Music flourishes, due partly to the Cathedral, which forms a common foundation with the College and serves as College chapel, and we offer choral, organ and other instrumental awards. There are also an art room and tutor available to all undergraduates. We have excellent facilities for most major sports, and other societies satisfy and develop diverse interests and skills. A number are subject-based and arrange dinners, speakers and discussion.

Learning is our primary concern and we recognize that you need to be happy to make the most of your potential, so we concentrate on care, support and stimulus. Christ Church is a community in which there is a shared commitment to our undergraduates' success.

Personal tutors oversee academic work, offer feedback and encouragement, and arrange the necessary teaching. Tutors are happy to help with any other matters affecting work and welfare, but there are also other people in College, such as the Chaplain, the College Sister and the Welfare Adviser, to whom undergraduates can turn for support or advice.

We admit about 120 undergraduates each year to read almost all Honour Schools. We are keen to encourage applicants from all types of school and selection is based on academic merit alone. This results in a vibrant student community and a friendly atmosphere in which people from diverse backgrounds mix easily.

All colleges in Oxford provide rooms in college for undergraduates in their first year, so you don’t need to look for lodgings before beginning your course.

However, you may not be able to live in your college for the full duration of your course and may have to move out to private accommodation, or you may choose to live out to share a house with your friends in your second or third year. The University Land Agent’s and Accommodation Office provides information about accommodation in the private sector for all students. Married undergraduates, or those with dependent children, should contact the Accommodation Office as soon as they have been accepted, as University-owned accommodation may be an option.

Prospective applicants and their teachers are warmly invited to visit the College. We have four Open Days a year (one of which is for teachers only) which offer the opportunity to see the College and to meet tutors and undergraduates. In addition, the Admissions Officer is always pleased to arrange to see visitors, either individually or in parties.