How to choose a suitable college in Oxford if I want to study history as my major?

Hello everyone! I'm currently an international student in year 11 (internationally) studying history as one of elected subjects. I planning to pursue a bachelor degree with honors of History in Oxford. However, I find it difficult to find a suitable college choice...there are too many!! Would anyone (preferably from Oxford) give me advice on selecting a suitable college? I want to get into a college with more resources of History, compare with other colleges & with less racism going on in the college. Besides, I prefer having an "en-suite" . Your suggestions would help a lot on solving my concerns, thank you so much!

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Stiffy Byng

Every Oxford college which teaches History has sufficient resources to do so.

A little under thirty percent of Oxford's students are members of ethnic minorities.

Please note that UK universities do not generally adopt the major/minor system used in US universities, although History can be studied as a Joint Honour School with some other subjects.

En-suite bathrooms are far from standard at Oxford. Many of the buildings in which students live and work are old, and some cannot be modernised because of their structures and/or because of their historic and architectural significance.

Apply to whichever college you most like the look of, preferably after visiting a few colleges or checking them out online. Please bear in mind that if you obtain an offer, there is a roughly one in four chance that the offer will come from a college other than the one you applied to.