Oxford University is the oldest educational establishment in the English speaking countries, going back to the eleven century. Alumni of Oxford University have made great contributions in each form of human endeavor.

If you walk the Oxford streets, you will be following the footsteps of kings, Nobel prize winners, presidents, as well as prime ministers. Oxford University has produced scientists, saints, explorers, artists, actors and authors. This stroll will take you around the Oxford’s oldest colleges and important university buildings.
Begin your walk at Oxford Rail Station. You need to turn right of the station and move for the great bicycle parking area. In fact, bicycles are everywhere in the city. Then turn left on to Hythe Bridge Street, and past Said College, Oxford’s newest institution. Next, you should go on over the bridge crossing Oxford Canal and the Castle Mill Stream. At the first crotch, you need to keep left on to Worcester Road. Roughy 50 yards along, you will reach the Worcester College entrance, your first stop.
Actually, Oxford is a union of independent and self-governing colleges, each having its own resources. Every college has libraries, dining halls, chapels, student rooms and sports fields. They do not have classrooms, lecture halls or laboratories — those are given by the University.

Still the colleges are much more than residences for students. Teachers that are associated with the Oxford colleges supervise every student’s studies and give personal guidance via regular “tutorials”. Also, the tutorial system is an undergraduate education’s backbone at Oxford and the students are not needed to go to lectures at all.

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