Planning your finances
The careful management of money is greatly important to many students. The information here is designed to give guidance to help with your financial planning during your degree course. We seek to keep our charges to a reasonable level, with meals in particular representing exceptional value for money.
When you begin your studies at Mansfield we’ll open an account for you. This is called a ‘battels’ account, which records all the financial transactions between you and the College.
Postgraduate course fees
The course fee covers academic facilities and other services that are provided for you, but doesn’t include accommodation or meals. You can find up-to-date information about course fees for Home/EU and Overseas students on the Oxford University website:
Room charges vary by size and location
Accommodation is allocated to new postgraduate students on a first-come-served basis, consisting of single-bed sitting rooms with shared self-catering and bathroom facilities. They’re ordinarily let on a tenancy from September 2024 to August 2025.
Any rooms not let to new students may be made available for returning postgraduate students, depending on availability.
Lunch and dinner charges
A variably-priced menu is available for all meals except Formal Hall. Choices will be offered so that a meal will always be available at affordable prices. Lunch and dinner at Mansfield are £5.25 per meal (2024-25).
We pride ourselves on the quality of our catering, enjoyed by students and staff alike. Most meals are cooked from fresh ingredients, locally sourced from high animal welfare suppliers. And our vegetarian and vegan food has been voted best in Oxford twice in a row.
Payment for all meals, except Formal Hall, will be charged to battels using your University Card. Whereas formal dinners you sign up to are charged direct to battels.
Financial support – Grants
We offer a Postgraduate Financial Support Fund, which we advertise at the start of each term, aiming to credit to battels in Week 8. As a postgraduate student at Mansfield, you can apply to the fund for a range of purposes, including:
- Academic resources such as books and equipment
- Travel for academic purposes, such as conferences and research trips
- Travel for enrichment purposes
- Unexpected temporary financial hardship
Hear from some of the Fund’s recipients:
