University College, Oxford

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	University College
	Established:	1249
	University:	University of Oxford
	Address:	High Street Oxford City Centre, Oxford, OX1 4AL, UK
	Telephone:	+44 1865 276602
	Website:	www.univ.ox.ac.uk
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	Admittance:	Men and women

Location

University College (Univ from now on) is situated on the High Street 5 minutes walk from Carfax (the centre of the City) and 5 minutes from the Sainsburys in the other direction on Magdelen Bridge. But the best thing about Univ is that it is right next to the exam schools, which is where almost all lectures take place as well as most university wide events such as the Freshers Fair and guest speaker events - and exams!

Accommodation

First year expect a slightly small to pretty large room, but only one. Often in our 60s building, but they're warm and quite large, for the most part. Except international students who get an *awesome* 2-room suite in Helen's Court, which are gorgeous. Second year there's a choice, top of the ballot is a 3 room+ensuite suite, mid-ballot expect a rather large single room or relatively small two-room suite, near the bottom expect a reasonably large single room. Third years either live out or live in our north Oxford annex. Rooms are reasonable. Rooms cost £13.49 per day, or around £800 per term (8 weeks plus a few days before term for collections and to get settled).

Edit - as of 2011, according to the Univ Alternative Prospectus, rent is now about £3475 per year, so it is around £1100 per term rather than £800.

Social Spaces

Univ is lucky enough to have a recently refurbished bar open six evenings a week, fully equipped with table-football, pool table, darts, quiz machine, TV and cheap drinks. The bar plays host to all sorts of student-organised events, from open mic nights to quizzes and college-wide parties, quaintly called ‘bops’. Bops take place three times a term and each bop has a different theme, we traditionally kick-off the year with the ‘Toga Bop’ – so bring bedsheets !

Library and Computing

The Univ library is open 24 hours a day 7 days a week during term time, and has it's own facebook page that posts updates about library related stuff. It's well stocked and if it doesn't have the book that you need then you can request it and it's usually in the library in a couple of days. The college is just accross the road from the main central libraries (The Bod and the RadCam).

The computer room is also open all the time and has 14 or so computers in and printers and photocopiers and it's air conditioned! You can access the internet from all roms in college with nothing more that an ethernet cable and a laptop, which is simple

Welfare

Welfare at Univ is pretty extensive. We have a Welfare Officer, a Chaplain, a Nurse, JCR welfare reps and college parents all on hand to offer any support if you should ever need at whilst at Univ.

Atmosphere

Possibly the 'nicest' college in Oxford. Visit us and you'll see thats the truth.

Sports

Rowing (generally 2-3 women's and 3-4 men's crews, plus novices) - rowing is big at Univ and we have a great, the best, boathouse on the Isis Men's (3 teams) and women's football, Men's rugby Women's and mixed hockey Mixed lacrosse, Squash courts in college, Badminton (men's and women's teams), Basketball (men's), Pool, Darts. Also the college pays for all Univ students to have free gym membership at the Iffley road sports ground.

Student-eye view

I love it here.

We have made a whistle-stop tour of the college: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDWX565YgDs