Corpus Christi College

Corpus Christi College combines a high intellectual reputation with a friendly community life and a strong commitment to graduates. Centrally located just south of the High Street, the College offers excellent facilities, a stimulating environment and a particularly fine library.

The College takes a keen interest in students’ research and monitors their progress closely. Each graduate is assigned a Fellow as a College Advisor and there are termly advisor lunches.

Facilities for Students with Disabilities

• Access to most areas of the College is possible for students with disabilities and ad hoc arrangements can be made, within reason, to suit individual needs.
• One purpose-built flat (off the main site) for a disabled student and one room on the main site has been adapted for a wheelchair user.
• Other rooms have been adapted for the hard of hearing.

Library Resources

• One of the best college libraries, centred on the magnificent sixteenth-century Old Library.
• Elegant reading rooms and on-line access to a variety of electronic resources.
• Access to the University network and the internet.
• Approximately 70,000 books on open shelves.
• Library is open 24 hours a day for College members.

Computing Resources

• Internet access available in all student rooms in the main College site and the majority of external lodgings.
• Wireless access available from Common Rooms and other areas of the main College site.
• Printing, scanning and photocopying facilities are available on the main site.
• Friendly IT support team to help with enquiries.

Art, Music, Drama and Sport

• Wide range of extra-curricular activities.
• MCR members can join any of the clubs and societies run by the JCR.
• Current MCR counts among its ranks several ‘Blues’ (members of University first teams), and contributes heavily to the College rowing teams.
• Popular choir, and opportunities to play in an orchestra and take part in plays and musicals.

Other Facilities

• Telephone lines are installed in all rooms.
• Fax machine.

• Graduates are guaranteed a single room for up to two years.
• A limited amount of married/family accommodation is available.
• All graduate houses have well equipped kitchens.
• Letting period runs from the end of September to the middle of July; it is possible to extend the letting period when rooms are charged at a daily rate.

• Senior Scholarship competition held annually.
• The Garside Scholarship in Mathematics is awarded biennially.

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• All graduate students are members of the Middle Common Room (MCR).
• Limitless supply of tea, coffee and biscuits available plus newspapers.
• Large TV and a computer with free printing.
• MCR Committee organises a varied programme of social and sporting events.
• MCR/SCR Seminars (with papers delivered by graduates and Fellows, alternately).
• MCR members can lunch with the Fellows of the College every Monday in term, and can dine at High Table twice each year.

For more information, please see the College MCR website.