This book series appears to be the one: global.oup.com/academic/content/series/h/history-of-the-university-of-oxford-huo/. A mere 250 pounds+ each.
- youtu.be/uol4V1Wa8B0?t=343 at the University of Bologna, the original system was for students to decide what they would learn, and hire and fire teachers as they decided. This is opposed to the system of the university of Paris, in which teachers make the final decisions. He mentions that this is the system that the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge use: the "congregation". He mentions that Oxbridge are one of the few universities that maintained this structure (as opposed to having funding sources select the final decision makers)
- youtu.be/uol4V1Wa8B0?t=1327 mentions the quadrangle architecture which served as the basis of the Colleges: make a closed square with everything students need: Chapel, Hall to eat, classes and accommodation. This is based of course on monastic cloisters.
A good explanation of how this insane system came up is given at Video "History of Oxford University by Chris Day (2018)".
The colleges are controlled by its fellows, a small self-electing body of highly successful scholars, usually in the dozens per college number it seems. Each college also usually has different types of fellows, e.g. see he university college page: www.univ.ox.ac.uk/about/college-fellowships/ (archive)
The college system does has its merits though, as it instates a certain sense of Hogwarts "belonging" to a certain group, so it might help students get better support for their learning projects from older students, or through the tutoring system. Of course, all such "belonging" feelings are bad, the correct thing would be to make great online tutorials for all, and answer questions in the open. But oh well, humans are dumb.
The college you are in impacts the quality of your courses, because tutorials are per-college. As of 2023, Ciro Santilli spoke to some students of the Computer science course of the University of Oxford, and was told that in some cases where you don't have anyone who can give the tutorial, you instead get a "class", i.e. a P.h.D. student going through question sheets with no interaction in the C.S. department, rather than a deep interactive discussion over the college fire. How can this system be so broken, it is beyond belief
For students (who are paying for the university to start with...), they will not claim tutorials linked to courses. But a tutorial that shows university laboratories, it is unclear: www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/intellectual-property (archive) This likely includes graduate students, who are also not paid by the university.
For faculty, the university owns everything it seems, to be confirmed.
Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/computer-science
Course lists: www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ True to form, courses appear to have identifiers, e.g. The "course materials" section of each course leads to courses.cs.ox.ac.uk/ which is paywalled by IP (accessible via Eduroam): TODO which system does it use? Some courses place their materials directly on "www.cs.ox.ac.uk", and when that is the case they are publicly accessible. So it is very much hit and miss. E.g. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2022-2023/quantum/index.html from Quantum Processes and Computation course of the University of Oxford has the assignments such as www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/aleks.kissinger/courses/qpc2022/assignment1.pdf publicly visible, but e.g. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2022-2023/modelsofcomputation/ has nothing.
qi for the Quantum Information course of the University of Oxford rather than more arbitrary A1/A2/A3, B1/B2/B3, naming convention used by the Mathematics course of the University of Oxford and the Physics course of the University of Oxford, and URLs can either have years or not:- www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/qi/: no year: goes to latest
- www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2023-2024/qi/: has year, fixed year. Disgraceful repetition of redundant 2023-2024, but OK.
Handbook:
- 2022:
- general www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/13731/CS%20Handbook%20final.pdf
- Year 1 (Prelims): www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/13794/Handbook%202022%20Part%20C%20-%20V1.3.pdf
- Year 2/3 (Parts A/B): www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/13793/Handbook%202022%20Parts%20A%20&%20B%20V1.3.pdf There is some mixture on which courses can be taken on year 2 or 3. This also implies that they cannot have the usual A2/B2 naming scheme. They just don't have names instead mostly. It is also the most beautiful illustration of why you shouldn't do Compute Science at university: there's no depth to the subject. You can just take random courses and you learn it all quickly. Section "The only reason for universities to exist should be the laboratories".
- Year 2 has four mandatory core courses:
- Models of Computation
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Compilers (mandatory for compsi, but not mathematics and computer science)
- Concurrent programming
- A only:
- Hilary term
- Concurrent Programming (mandatory for compsi, but not mathematics and computer science)
- Quantum information
- Year 2 has four mandatory core courses:
- Year 4 (Part C): www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/13794/Handbook%202022%20Part%20C%20-%20V1.3.pdf
- Michaelmas term
- Bayesian Statistical Probabilistic Programming
- Concurrent Algorithms and Data Structures
- Quantum Processes and Computation
- Computational Learning Theory
- Computational Biology
- Advanced Complexity Theory
- Graph Representation Learning
- Hilary term
- Advanced Security
- Database Systems Implementation
- Ethical Computing in Practice
- Law and Computer Science
- Quantum Software course of the University of Oxford
- Geometric Deep Learning
- Foundations of Self-Programming Agents
- Deep Learning in Healthcare
- Michaelmas term
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Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/computer-science-and-philosophy
A mixed cross department course with the philosophy department. Its corresponding masters is known as Oxford MCompSciPhil. The handbook is together with the computer science one: Section "Computer science course of the University of Oxford".
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Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/mathematics-and-computer-science
A mixed cross department course with the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford.. Its corresponding masters is known as Oxford MMathCompSci. The handbook is together with the computer science one: Section "Computer science course of the University of Oxford".
Computer science and philosophy masters course of the University of Oxford by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/computer-science-and-philosophy
Corresponding undergrad: Computer Science and Philosophy course of the University of Oxford.
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Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16This section is about the version of the course offered on Hilary term 2023 (January).
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Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16 Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
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