Organisation
See also: Category:Departments of the University of Oxford
As a collegiate university, Oxford's structure can be confusing to those unfamiliar
with it. The university is a federation, comprising over forty self-governing
colleges and halls, along with a central administration headed by the Vice-
Chancellor.
Academic departments are located centrally within the structure of the federation;
they are not affiliated with any particular college. Departments provide facilities
for teaching and research, determine the syllabi and guidelines for the teaching of
students, perform research, and deliver lectures and seminars.
Colleges arrange the tutorial teaching for their undergraduates, and the members of
an academic department are spread around many colleges. Though certain colleges
do have subject alignments (e.g., Nuffield College as a centre for the social
sciences), these are exceptions, and most colleges will have a broad mix of
academics and students from a diverse range of subjects. Facilities such as libraries
are provided on all these levels: by the central university (the Bodleian), by the
departments (individual departmental libraries, such as the English Faculty
Library), and by colleges (each of which maintains a multi-discipline library for
the use of its members).
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