Wadham College is close to the Bodleian Library, the University Science Area, and the city centre. It has large, quiet grounds with some of the most beautiful gardens in Oxford and a fine early 17th-century quad alongside more modern buildings.

Uniquely in Oxford, Wadham combines its Junior Common Room (JCR) with its Middle Common Room (MCR) to form a Students’ Union. Graduates thus play a full part in the life of the College. The Tutor for Graduates is available for consultation and advice, and, in addition, each graduate student is allocated a College Advisor whose academic interests are close to the student’s own.

The College's newly-built graduate centre forms a welcoming space for both studying and relaxing as well as for informal meetings and social events.

The College has a reputation for informality and lack of stuffiness; graduate students will find a strong sense of community at Wadham, one in which students are treated as individuals and can make friends from a wide variety of backgrounds and many nations.

Single accommodation is offered to all first-year graduates who require it. Most first-year graduates are offered single accommodation in Merifield, an accommodation complex of shared flats near the college sports ground and located around a mile from the main site. Accommodation is also available for some second- and third-year graduates.

A small number of rooms are available within modern buildings in the College grounds, for which priority is given to students with disabilities and overseas students, in accordance with demand.

A 'living-out' grant is offered to help with the cost of private accommodation.

• Letting period: 9- or 11-month contracts available for Merifield complex accommodation

Wadham offers a number of scholarships and prizes for graduates.

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

There is a modern and spacious College library open 24 hours a day, year round. The library offers nine study carrels, including five lockable rooms, primarily for graduate use.

All rooms, including those at Merifield, have network connections and there are computer rooms at both Merifield and on the main site, supported by full-time college IT staff. Printing facilities are available in the computer room on the main site and accessible from any personal computer via the College network.

The College has a sports ground in North Oxford with a pavilion and offers squash and badminton courts.There is a College boathouse and punting facilities available.

The recently built Graduate Centre is available for the use of all Wadham graduates. It features a brand new graduate common room, fully-equipped kitchen facilities, computer room, TV room and seminar room.

There is a student theatre and bar and the College offers an indoor bike shed on the main site, in addition to extensive under-cover and secure bike sheds at the Merifield Complex.

Wadham welcomes students with disabilities. Candidates who are considering making an application are advised to contact the Tutorial Office in advance to discuss their requirements.

Following a recent refurbishment, Wadham Middle Common Room (MCR) has some of the most modern and comprehensive MCR facilities in Oxford. The active MCR committee organise a wide range of social and academic activities during each term, from exchange dinners, guest nights, wine tasting and weekly Welfare teas, to MCR-subsidised trips to the theatre and regular graduate seminars where MCR members present and discuss their research.

The MCR committee is friendly and always open to input and suggestions from MCR members.