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Divisions

The University of Oxford has four academic divisions, within which are individual departments, faculties or other centres. Click on the headings below to reveal the different departments, faculties or centres that make up the four academic divisions, or scroll to the bottom for a video explanation of the remit of each division's research. 

The Department for Continuing Education forms a fifth grouping and although not organised into separate faculties or departments, its board and teachers have the same responsibilities as the divisions.

Humanities

The Humanities Division is made up of the following departments, faculties and centres:

Faculty of Classics

Faculty of English Language and Literature

Faculty of History

Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and Phonetics Laboratory

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

Faculty of Music

Faculty of Oriental Studies

Faculty of Philosophy

The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities 

Rothermere American Institute

Ruskin School of Art

Faculty of Theology and Religion

Voltaire Foundation

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences

The Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division is made up of the following departments, faculties and centres:

Begbroke Science Park 

Department of Biology

Department of Chemistry

Department of Computer Science

Department of Earth Sciences

Department of Engineering Science

Mathematical Institute

Department of Materials

Department of Physics

Department of Statistics

Doctoral Training Centre

Medical Sciences

The Medical Sciences Division is made up of the following departments, faculties and centres:

Department of Biochemistry

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Department of Experimental Psychology

Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Department of Oncology

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences

Department of Paediatrics

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Department of Pharmacology

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Nuffield Department of Population Health

Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Department of Psychiatry

Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences

Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health

Social Sciences

The Social Sciences Division is made up of the following departments, faculties and centres:

School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography

School of Archaeology

Blavatnik School of Government

Department of Economics

Department of Education

School of Geography and the Environment

School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies

Department of International Development

Oxford Internet Institute

Faculty of Law

Oxford Martin School

Department of Politics and International Relations

Saïd Business School

Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Department of Sociology

The Humanities Division

The Medical Sciences Division

 

The Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division

The Social Sciences Division

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