Oxford Study Abroad Programme

The City of Oxford and Oxford University The Largest Oxford Program OSAP Meets NAFSA's Best Standard The Director of OSAP Previous Students from over 550 Colleges Associate Members of Oxford Colleges Full Use of Main Oxford University Library Law School Students
A New Program A New Consortium Live In The Very Center of Oxford

Apply Online Dates and Fees

Fees for Associate Members and Visiting Students Term Dates for 2007-2008

Lectures and Tutorials

Lecture Course in British Culture and Society Tutorial Request Form The Tutorial System Courses in International Relations Summer Course in Intl. Relations Winter Course in Intl. Relations

Evaluations of OSAP

Notes From A College Provost Best Overseas Study Program in the World Evaluations of the Intl. Relations Courses Visiting Student Evaluations of Oxford University Summer Session Student Evaluations

Four Distinguished Oxford Colleges

New College Magdalen College Trinity College Christ Church

Orientation and the Oxford Term

Why Thirteen Weeks of Residence is Important Essential Twelve-Day Orientation in Oxford

Housing

Map 6 Wilson Place 11a Little Clarendon Street Venneit Close (Modern Apartments) 2 Juxon Street (Jericho) 24 Walton Well Road (Jericho) 4 Kingston Road (Jericho) 37 St. Giles Street The Jericho Area Housing Request Form Housing Standards Notes from Housing Agents for Students Telephones

Summer Session 2008 OSAP Student Handbook Copyright Note

Associate Members of Oxford Colleges

A good number of qualified students prefer to apply for Associate Member status (because the College and University fees in Oxford are lower, the costs are substantially less). Many US home colleges which work with OSAP have told us that they prefer this status for their own students.

OSAP conducts an associate program with several colleges of the University of Oxford for students with minimum indices of 3.0 (the average index for last year was 3.7). Some Colleges require a 3.6 index.

Although students are degree candidates of their home college and not of the University of Oxford, they are taught in the same way and to the same standard by Oxford tutors who normally teach degree candidates. Graduate study is available.

Students may enrol for one term, two terms or the entire academic year. Qualified students recommended by OSAP are Associate Members (affiliated members of their Junior Common Room) of their Oxford Colleges .

By prior arrangements, these students are academically supervised by their US home colleges, not by their College in Oxford. Students who have applied for credit transfer through this system have always been awarded credit toward their home college degree; only the awarding college can do this. These students made proper arrangements with their home college academic departments in advance and future students must do the same. Students may receive an overseas study transcript from an accredited private US University the University of the Pacific, in Stockton, California.

It is essential to apply in advance of the Oxford term for this transcript.

Associate Members are eligible for the same housing (including possible college rooms) in the very center of Oxford (with British students) as Visiting Students. All the added benefits of OSAP are included in their program.

As we stress in our Student Handbook and elsewhere, there are some limitations on facilities outside their host college, in which they have many privileges, including borrowing rights in the college library. They have full use of the University Library (The Bodleian). Most of the Oxford Colleges we work with offer e-mail and computer facilities. A lap-top computer in Oxford might be useful. Students may use e-mail in the OSAP office. Computers are in all OSAP housing.