Accommodations & Meals
Participants have private bed/sitting rooms on the quadrangles across from the college chapel. The spacious single rooms in New College afford privacy and quiet and yet a close community life evolves as students get to know each other. The program provides full board; all meals are taken in the Great Hall. The University of Oxford appoints a dean of administration to live at the college to provide assistance and information. Once a week the program joins in the tradition of hosting distinguished guests at a formal and festive dinner known as High Table.
Residential Life at Oxford
One of the hallmarks of Oxford is the way that academic pursuits become part of an active and intimate community life centered on the college. The spacious single rooms in New College afford privacy and quiet and yet a close community life evolves as students get to know each other, take meals in the Great Hall, and discuss readings informally on the quadrangle, in the garden or the Junior Common Room. Tutors are accessible and may join students at meals or on excursions. Once a week the program joins in the tradition of hosting distinguished guests at High Table, a formal and festive dinner in the Great Hall. Receptions in the Founder's Library and the Cloisters also are regular features of the summer program. Daily affairs of the program are handled by the Dean for Administration and the staff of New College.
