<p>Has anyone been to or know a lot about specific colleges at oxford and cambridge UK?</p>
<p>Is the faculty the same no matter which college you go to? or do they have college specific faculty?</p>
<p>Which colleges at Oxford and Cambridge respectively are/have…</p>
<p>the most well known/prestigious?
the best academics?
the best social life/athletics?
the best buildings/surroundings?</p>
<p>oxford:
jesus
christ church
new
merton
magdalen(pronounced maudlen)
corpus christi</p>
<p>idk cambridge i didnt go there</p>
<p>I lived in college at LMH, which has access to the Cherwell and lovely acreage and gardens – a pleasant ten minute walk through the park from city cente. It definitely had a more egalitarian vibe than most. So did St. Catz. Wadham has a progressive vibe. Similar to Brown.</p>
<p>The rankings fluctuate and change from year to year, but this is the general pecking order for academic quality of students. I’ll note that all Oxbridge students generally function at an average level only achieved at HPYSM in America (or even higher).</p>
<p>[Norrington</a> Table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrington_Table]Norrington”>Norrington Table - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Some, like Corpus Christi, have a lot of well-connected students, but the academics are a notch below.</p>
<p>Personally, I think it’s hard to beat the New College pub.</p>
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been to both, but try <a href=“http://www”>www</a>. the student room. co .uk (remove spaces for link to work). A board for the UK similar to this.</p>
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Lectures are taught centrally (same for everyone) and supervisions/tutorials are taught in colleges by their staff. However, after my first year I was taught in lots of different colleges and could request particular staff if I wanted. If there is one particular person you really want to be taught by, apply to their college. But that doesn’t guarentee it because they may not even teach undergrads. or a great researcher may not be the best teacher. </p>
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This matters little in the UK, and zero in the US where most people will not be able to name a single college anyway (this is why there are hundreds of foreign students at the other uni in Oxford city, Oxford Brookes. So they can go home and say they went to Oxford Uni - which they didn’t. Brookes is ranked about 50 in the UK - at Brookes college and no-one will ever know). The most well known are those which have appeared in the latests Harry Potter film usually!</p>
<p>There are actually college league tables based on the number of student at each college getting firsts (the top grade). google “norrington table”. bear in midn this is pretty meaningless due to the small numbers of students taking each subject at each college. i.e. 25% of English students failing is probably just one person. Some colleges do advertise they specialise in certain subjects eg chruchill cambridge = sciences.</p>
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Social is what you make of it. You are of course allowed to socialise with whoever you like, in other colleges to your own. Some colleges have reputations for being more political (usually those with many PPE students) than others, but to me it makes little difference. You can join in-college socities and clubs (these are for what are known in the US as ECs. But hobbies/fun in the UK.) or university wides ones. Generally if it’s sports you’re after playing in a college team is not so competitive, but if you want to represent the university it’s hard.
Both Oxford and Cambridge have web-sites where you can browse their stunning brochure shots at leisure. Bear in mind every ancient college has hidden somewhere a concrete “new block” montrosity from the 1960s. This is usually where first years live. Also bear in mind you will rarely live in the most fancy buildings - they’re often libraries or chapels.</p>
<p>cambridge university</p>
<p>oops sorry. I posted at the same time as CayugaRed, who has the link to the Norrington able.</p>
<p>Ok thanks for the responses so far, </p>
<p>anyone know whats a good college (at oxford or cambridge)for an Mphil in Politics? Ie (with a good reputation for that area)</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>ive read there is not much difference between the colleges, so one should just make sure the college offers that area of study and apply to the one you find the most aethetically (SP) pleasing, has internet in all the dorms, etc…look at the pros and cons of each…also on the uni websites you can look at virtual tours…they are beautiful!</p>
<p>The differences among the colleges, by and large, tend to be functions of their location, age, architecture, etc., rather than academic differences. While some of the tutorial teaching is done in-college (I believe some modules are done outside of college), lectures, exams, etc., are centralized, and the degree is given by the university itself.</p>
<p>In the case of the University of Cambridge:</p>
<p>Trinity College
St John’s College
King’s Hall College</p>
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Which doesn’t exist.
You must mean either King’s College, Trinity Hall or maybe Clare Hall (which is graduate only)</p>
<p>I meant King’s</p>
<p>This is completely irrelecant, but in reponse to trackdude’s “magdalen(pronounced maudlen),” the word ‘maudlin’ developed from Mary Magdalene. Cool to me, perhaps boring and useless to you:)</p>
<p>Right. But only the pretenses of the English ruling class could develop the word Magdalen into Maudlin.</p>
<p>The best buildings and grounds? Worcester, Oxford (my alma mater). Location of Alice in Wonderland. And thanks to Rupert Murdoch, the buildings are in tremendous shape.</p>
<p>Pity about the press though.</p>
<p>and food at worcester is cheap! the founder of sainsbury went there, so the chain provides goods to the college quite subsidized!</p>
<p>re: academics, it really depends on the course.
i like the magdalen’s gardens.</p>
<p>[and mini, re: alice in wonderland; the banks of lmh inspired wind and the willows …]</p>
<p>Sonar – Do you have a source for the LMH’s Cherwell inspiring the Wind and the Willows? I have never heard that before. Interesting.</p>
<p>Magdalen’s gardens are fantastic once you get over the fact that they deem it fit to have a deep park in the 21st century. Tradition dies old, I suppose.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with the deer park? The deer are cute :)</p>
<p>“and food at worcester is cheap! the founder of sainsbury went there, so the chain provides goods to the college quite subsidized!”</p>
<p>Gosh, it was awful while I was there. But George S. must have come to the same conclusion!</p>
<p>You can also see where Thomas de Quincey smoked his opium. It is also the location of the opening scene of Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall.</p>
<p>Sadly, the old plane tree where the cheshire cat was said to sit had to be cut down in the '80s. But you can still see the wall where they paint the roses red (actually, they remove the yellow ones, and put the red ones in.) And the swan croquet pitch - many a Worcester first-year has been terrorized by the Queen’s beasts.</p>