St Hilda’s

At St Hilda’s College you’ll have excellent, supportive tutors who select on the basis of academic merit. Your tutors will be serious scholars who enjoy teaching in Oxford’s tutorial system. You’ll be part of a friendly and diverse community, with people from all educational and social backgrounds, both British and international. You’ll be eligible for many college awards for academic work, travel, sport, and other activities. After your time at St Hilda’s, you can keep in touch through the Association of Senior Members and its professional networks which help students at the start of their careers. Founded in 1893 for women, St Hilda’s continues to promote its original values of excellence and equality as a mixed college, admitting roughly equal numbers of women and men. Please come and visit us!

At St Hilda’s you’ll relax in the tranquil beauty of the college’s riverside site – and you’ll have easy access to the centre of town, the University Sports Complex, and the lively culture of East Oxford.

As a first- or final-year student, you will have a room in college. In your second year, you have the opportunity to live in your ‘own’ rented house with other students. Many final-year students have rooms with a shower and WC, and all college rooms have internet connections. There is accommodation for disabled students. Food in college is varied and highly rated, and we cater for special diets. You also have the option of self-catering in one of the many student kitchens in college. Students pay about £155 per term for meals, or £120 if they live out. A standard college room costs about £1168 per 9 week term.

In the college library you’ll find both paper and electronic resources to support your undergraduate studies. You can use your own computer there, or in a separate computer room. The large, well-equipped electronic resources room gives access to library catalogues, databases, and the internet. You’ll be able to enjoy performances (yours and other people’s) of every kind of music in the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, which has superb acoustics and practice rooms which students may use. The Director of College Music helps to coordinate student and professional concerts in college.

St Hilda’s is one of the few undergraduate colleges right on the river. You can use college punts in the summer months – they are moored a few steps from the Porter’s Lodge. Around the corner on the Iffley Road is the University Sports Complex with its gym and swimming pool. You’ll have a college discount on membership for both.

Your options include: music; sport (rowing, hockey, rugby, netball); the college student newspaper. At the JCR Arts Festival you can show your own work (sculpture, painting, photography, etc.) and put on plays and concerts. You can also take part in the JCR St Hilda’s Festival celebrating our tradition of excellence and equality. And you can always start your own society!