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About your studies

Learning at Oxford is stimulating, demanding and potentially life-changing. The teaching, research and learning opportunities here are exceptional and the environment inspiring.

Your studies will develop your thinking, enabling you to think deeply and for yourself, and to be able to articulate those thoughts clearly. These skills will stay with you for life and benefit you in your later career. Depending on your chosen course, you will have individual access to world-class academic experts through a combination of tutorials, lectures, classes, laboratory work or fieldwork.

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Learning at Oxford

Teaching at Oxford offers a rare level of personalised attention from academic experts.

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Choosing your course

The most important decision you will make when applying is which course you want to study. Start researching this now.

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Perfect places to study

Oxford's libraries, museums and laboratories offer some of the most inspiring and best-equipped learning environments anywhere.

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For your future

Everyone who studies here can build an exciting future for themselves. Studying at Oxford sparks a lifetime of opportunity, both personal and professional.

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