Oxford is hard, but rewarding Past Review

Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc.

Incredible, personalized 1-1 tutoring, lots of support from program admin, very high level of study. It's Oxford, after all.

On-site administration of your program

They were great, although a bit overbearing to my tastes.

How satisfied were you with your living arrangements?

Fairly nice facility with good central location, but sort of a weird, ugly building. Also had almost only double rooms, which was annoying.

I rarely ate in the Keble dining hall, so I mainly cooked or had take out. It's Britain, so quality was...variable.

How integrated did you feel with the local culture?

The UK culture is not hard to assimilate to as an American, but I was annoyed that the program felt very disconnected from British oxford students. I had to go out of my way to associate with them and didn't really have enough time to form deep relationships.

How well were health issues addressed during the program?

We even got to meet our doctor prior to the program. I had to go to the urgent care once and had 0 problems. Thanks, socialized medicine!

I never really felt unsafe, but the streets could sometimes feel slightly dodgy at night.

I would have done a proper abroad year by direct enrolling at an Oxford college, rather than going through Middlebury.

(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost)

Oxford was expensive, but I could have done everything more cheaply had I tried.

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• Americans

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• Local Students
• Americans
• International Students

• Individualized Education
• High level of academics
• this food truck called Hassan's outside the Bodleian. Seriously.

• work for non medieval and renaissance studies people
• Workload
• program is too short, should be two terms