Oxford has educated a wide range of notable alumni, including 30 prime ministers of the United Kingdom and many heads of state and government around the world. [17] As of October 2022, [update] 73 Nobel Prize laureates, 4 Fields Medalists, and 6 Turing Award winners have matriculated, worked, or held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, while its alumni have won 160 Olympic medals. [18] Oxford is the home of numerous scholarships, including the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the oldest international graduate scholarship programmes. Finances [ edit ] Dining hall at Christ Church; the hall is an important feature of the typical Oxford college, providing a place to dine and socialise. Regulations on the number and length of terms". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 27 May 2008 . Retrieved 9 October 2007.

Shepherd, Jessica (22 March 2007). "Oxford targets bright young things of eastern Europe". The Guardian. UK. Archived from the original on 14 April 2014 . Retrieved 9 October 2007. The university passed a statute in 1875 allowing examinations for women at roughly undergraduate level; [54] for a brief period in the early 1900s, this allowed the " steamboat ladies" to receive ad eundem degrees from the University of Dublin. [55] In June 1878, the Association for the Education of Women (AEW) was formed, aiming for the eventual creation of a college for women in Oxford. Some of the more prominent members of the association were George Granville Bradley, T. H. Green and Edward Stuart Talbot. Talbot insisted on a specifically Anglican institution, which was unacceptable to most of the other members. The two parties eventually split, and Talbot's group founded Lady Margaret Hall in 1878, while T. H. Green founded the non-denominational Somerville College in 1879. [56] Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville opened their doors to their first 21 students (12 from Somerville, 9 from Lady Margaret Hall) in 1879, who attended lectures in rooms above an Oxford baker's shop. [54] There were also 25 women students living at home or with friends in 1879, a group which evolved into the Society of Oxford Home-Students and in 1952 into St Anne's College. [57] [58] Annual Admissions Statistical Report: May 2020" (PDF). University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk). Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 March 2021 . Retrieved 3 February 2021. Aggregated Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31 July 2022" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 April 2023 . Retrieved 5 May 2023.

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Sir Spencer Walpole (1903). History of Twenty-Five Years: vol 4: 1870–1875. pp.136–37. Archived from the original on 4 March 2017 . Retrieved 3 March 2017. Before reforms in the early 19th century, the curriculum at Oxford was notoriously narrow and impractical. Sir Spencer Walpole, a historian of contemporary Britain and a senior government official, had not attended any university. He said, "Few medical men, few solicitors, few persons intended for commerce or trade, ever dreamed of passing through a university career." He quoted the Oxford University Commissioners in 1852 stating: "The education imparted at Oxford was not such as to conduce to the advancement in life of many persons, except those intended for the ministry." [40] Nevertheless, Walpole argued: Annual Admissions Statistical Report May 2020" (PDF). University of Oxford. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 March 2021 . Retrieved 3 February 2021.