Visiting Students and the Director 2006-07

Mansfield College has a long-established Visiting Student Programme with a high academic reputation.  It offers students both full membership of the college and an official status within the University of Oxford.  Visiting students play an integral part in the college’s academic, cultural, and social life.  Although they study at Oxford for a year, they are members of Mansfield College for life, and we are pleased that many former visiting students return for visits and alumni events.  

The Mansfield Visiting Student Programme aims to replicate as closely as possible the Oxford undergraduate experience. The Oxford system of undergraduate teaching is based on the weekly tutorial, at which one to three students meet with a tutor for a period of concentrated study. Tutorials are backed up by University lectures and Oxford's rich library resources. The system thus places great emphasis on individual students developing skills of critical evaluation and reasoning, whilst exploring the chosen discipline in depth.

For more information on the tutorial system, the subjects we offer and the Mansfield Visiting Student Programme in general, please visit our Visiting Student Programme section.

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