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4 Degree names

The system of academic degrees in the university is very confusing to those not familiar with it. This is not merely due to the fact that many degree titles date from the Middle Ages, but also due to the fact that in recent years many changes have been haphazardly introduced. See also Degrees of Oxford University.

5 Famous Oxonians

Oxford has produced four British and about five foreign Kings, 47 Nobel prize-winners, 25 British Prime Ministers, six saints, 86 Archbishops and 18 Cardinals. More complete information on famous senior and junior members of the University can be found in the individual college articles. Note that an individual may be associated with two or more colleges, as an undergraduate, postgraduate, and/or member of staff.

See also: List of notable Oxford students.

6 The "other" Oxford students

There is a second university at Oxford - Oxford Brookes University [1], formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic, whose entrance requirements are less stringent. It is located on campuses largely in the eastern suburbs of the city. There are also a number of independent "colleges" which have nothing to do with either university but are popular, particularly with overseas students, perhaps because they allow their students to state truthfully that they have studied at Oxford; these institutions vary considerably in the standard of teaching they provide.

7 Institutions

Events and organisations connected with the university include:

• The Oxford University Student Union
• The Oxford Union Society
• The Oxford University Museum of Natural History (sometimes called The Oxford University Museum)
• The Pitt Rivers Museum
• The Ashmolean Museum
• The Taylor Institution
• Gaudy celebrations
• Eights Week
• The Boat Race against Cambridge University
• Oxford University Press
• Bodleian Library
• University Church of St Mary the Virgin
• The Oxford University Parks

See also: Academic dress of Oxford University

8 Oxford in literature and the media

Oxford University is the setting for numerous works of fiction, including:

• Gaudy Night, a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers (who was herself a graduate of Somerville).
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
• A Staircase in Surrey, a quintet of novels by J. I. M. Stewart.
• A series of whodunnits by Veronica Stallwood , including Oxford Blue, Oxford Exit, etc.
• The His Dark Materials trilogy of Philip Pullman (alternative reality)
• The Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter is set in Oxford and frequently refers to the University (although most of the college names are fictional).
• An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

Fictional universities based on Oxford include Terry Pratchett's Unseen University and "Christminster" in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

For a list of fictional colleges of Oxford University see fictional Oxford colleges.

Many poets have been inspired by the university:

• The Oxford Sausage was an anthology published in 1764 and edited by Thomas Warton.
• Duns Scotus' Oxford is one of Gerard Manley Hopkins' better-known poems.

Films set in the university include:

• A Yank at Oxford , starring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh
• Oxford Blues , starring Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy and Amanda Pays.
• American Friends , starring Michael Palin
• Iris, starring Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent and Kate Winslet, about the life of Iris Murdoch
• Shadowlands, starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger, about the life of CS Lewis
• Young Sherlock Holmes , starring Nicholas Rowe
• True Blue, about the Mutiny Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race of 1987
• The Saint, film starring Val Kilmer of 1997

This does not include movies that used the University as a set but were not depicted as Oxford University, such as the Harry Potter movies.

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