University College is very proud of its outstanding, lively and international graduate community. As a graduate at University College you will be able to participate in a wide range of intellectual, social and sporting activities within the College.

Endowed in 1249, University College has a claim to be Oxford’s oldest college. It combines academic excellence with an atmosphere that is friendly, relaxed and welcoming. The College's students come from a wide variety of backgrounds and from over 35 different countries.

Distinguished alumni include:

• Presidents Bill Clinton (USA) and Festus Mogae (Botswana)
• Prime Ministers Clement Attlee (UK), Bob Hawke (Australia) and Kofe Abrefa Busia (Ghana)
• Stephen Hawking, physicist
  
• Shelley, poet
  
• VS Naipaul, Nobel Prize-winning writer
• Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate
• Roz Savage, the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans
  
• Figures in the media, such as Paul Gambaccini, Christina Lamb and Armando Iannucci.

Accommodation is located on the main site as well as in a modern accommodation centre in North Oxford, twenty minutes’ walk from the College, with lovely gardens, computing facilities refurbished bathrooms and good cooking facilities.

Six rooms are available at the Boathouse, all en-suite, with shared kitchen/common room. Limited flats are available for graduates with partners, usually for the duration of their course.

All student rooms have a telephone line and an internet connection.

Meals are offered each day during term both informal self-service or served dinners; graduate guest nights are regular events and always a sell-out. All meals are optional and offered on a pay as you eat basis.

Graduate students receive book grants, and can apply for travel and research-support (workshop and conference) funds. The College also offers a number of studentships, mostly in partnership with University departments.

For more information, please see the University College website and the Oxford Funding Search.

The College has excellent libraries, including a specialist Law reference Library, open 24 hours a day during term.

There are excellent computing facilities including one computing suite reserved for graduate use only and dedicated IT support to ensure facilities are constantly updated and functioning smoothly.

All rooms at the Boathouse and the North Oxford site have wifi access, and wifi is being rolled out on the main site.

There is a College sports ground on the Abingdon Road catering for traditional field sports, an award-winning new Boathouse - including dedicated ergo gym for rowers - and a squash court on the main College site. Students may use the University Sports Centre and Swimming Pool free of charge.

The College has a music practice room, a beautiful 17th century chapel, accomplished choir and an active Music Society.

The Martlets Society gives graduates a special forum for presenting their work and ideas to Fellows and other graduates. The College has a number of research centres and a graduate hub in Merton Street, and graduates may attend the College’s New Durham Club lectures at which Fellows present their work.

There are three adapted rooms - two on the main site and one in the Staverton Road complex. Limited parking is available on the Staverton Road complex, though there is currently no parking on the main site.

The Hall, Library, Bar and Buttery are wheelchair accessible.

The graduate common room (the Weir Common Room or WCR and the equivalent of a MCR in other colleges) is on the main site and provides a social centre for graduates and their partners; an alternative to the busy college bar.

There is a comfortable area for social gatherings or for simply catching up on the newspapers, as well as a recently modernised kitchen and a TV room.