The university was founded in 1096. More than 20,000 students study at Oxford, and a quarter of them are foreigners.
In addition to the central university, there are 38 colleges (Oxford Colleges) and 6 private dormitories (Permanent Private Halls), which enjoy self-government and financial independence.
The territory of the university is truly huge: each college has its own dining room, bar, library, lounge and dormitories. The university has theaters, museums and libraries. Moreover, Oxford University has its own publishing house, which publishes the world famous Oxford Dictionary.
Classrooms and canteens of some colleges can be seen in a series of films about the young wizard Harry Potter. Most often, Christ Church College dining room flashed through them.
Training can be carried out under the programs of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs. All specialties are divided into two main areas: Classical or humanitarian; Scientific.
University infrastructure includes such objects as:
Libraries
Laboratories
Sports and Gyms
31 college
Dormitories
Clinics and hospitals
150 departments, schools, faculties and other educational institutions;
Computer classes and others
Interesting Facts About the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
According to the plot of the Iron Man tape, the main character Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A famous mathematician, Nobel Prize winner in economics John Forbes Nash Jr., whose life story is shown in Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind tape, worked at the school.
The Institute does not award honorary degrees: it is believed that one can only be proud of one’s achievements, and completing MIT is already a great honor. The honorary degrees of professors were appointed only two times in exceptional cases: Winston Churchill and Salman Rushdy received it.
