<p>CAVEAT: This “Oxford Study Abroad Programme” has no official affiliation with the University of Oxford whatsoever. (I should know, I was a student representative at Oxford until last year and I’ve spent waaay too much time in committees dealing with this kind of stuff).
From a quick glance at their website, this basically seems to be an initiative of an academic (the “President”) who was formerly at the University of Oxford. He has a deal with four colleges where he gets his students “Associate Membership”. That doesn’t - repeat - DOESN’T make you a student/member of the University.
People on exchange semesters who are correctly enrolled in the University are called “Visiting Students” - look out for this at [Homepage</a> - University of Oxford](<a href=“http://www.ox.ac.uk%5DHomepage”>http://www.ox.ac.uk) to find out about the procedures involved.
But with this “Associate Membership”, you are basically at the mercy of your college which might give you a few tutorials but will probably just be happy to take your cash. The faculty/department has no obligation to allow you to participate in seminars/classes, and you’re not even officially allowed to attend University lectures (though in all honesty, no one ever checks as long as you’re of student age).<br>
But this is the kind of thing which looks a bit bad on a CV whenever someone finds out that you claim to have been on a semester abroad at Oxford but were never an officially registered Visiting Student. I’d advise against it.</p>