Somerville College

Somerville College welcomes graduate students in a wide variety of disciplines. A relaxed and friendly college, Somerville is free of religious affiliation, with students coming from many different cultural backgrounds.

The social centre of graduate life at Somerville is Margery Fry House, a building on the College site which is partly managed by students themselves and reserved for graduate-only use. This is the home of the Middle Common Room, which organises numerous social activities throughout the year.

Facilities for students with disabilities

Although bedrooms in Margery Fry House are not suitable for wheelchair users, wheelchair-accessible bedrooms are available elsewhere on the College site. The College is able to consider requests for other adaptations; please contact the Academic Office to discuss requirements.

Library resources

• Book stock of more than 120,000 volumes
• 24-hour access
• Unlimited book borrowing; with a loan period of up to a term
• Strong research holdings across the Humanities
• Multiple copies of science textbooks
• Special collections including the library of John Stuart Mill
• Wireless internet access, and computers available

Computing resources

• Wireless internet access available throughout the College site
  
• Network connection in each study bedroom
• On-site computer rooms equipped with scanning and printing facilities
• Dorothy Hodgkin Quad music room (Sibelius music software)
• Laptops for loan
• Digital camera for loan

Art, Music, Drama and Sport

• On-site gym and croquet
• Off-site shared sports facilities
• Numerous College sports clubs
• Music practice rooms
• Music society
• Organ and pianos
• Chapel choir
• Drama society

Other facilities

• Non-consecrated Chapel, open to all faiths
• Law, History, and Medics’ societies

The College's graduate accommodation is located on the College site, mostly in Margery Fry House, and on Woodstock Road.

Three meals a day are available in the College Dining Hall from Monday through Friday with brunch available on weekends, and formal Hall is held six times per term. Some shared kitchen facilities are also provided to graduates.

Scholarships and grants include:

• £100 per year Research Materials Grant for each graduate student
• Travel Grants for conference and research-related travel
• Four Somerville College Alumni Scholarships each year for Somerville undergraduates continuing to graduate study at Somerville, with one scholarship available in each of the four University Divisions (£1,500 and dining rights)
• Four Somerville College Graduate Scholarships, associated with the University's Clarendon scholarships, for international students at Somerville, with one scholarship available in each of the four University Divisions (Full scholarship and dining rights)

For information on other awards, please see the Oxford Funding Search.

The Somerville Middle Common Room (MCR) is located in the primary graduate accommodation hub of Margery Fry House. There are termly MCR/SCR symposia with dinner and an annual MCR dinner with supervisors and college advisers.