You can definitely spend two days in Oxford if you are into art and history. Go to the Asmolean Museum, and also the University Museum, which is a spectacular building even if you aren’t interested in natural history, and has the fascinating Pitt Rivers ethnological museum attached to it.

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Oxford is a truly walkable city and one of the best ways to properly explore its quadrangles, chapels and gardens is on foot.

Oxford Top 10

• Oxford University’s Historic Colleges. It’s what everybody has come here to see, and for very good reason.
• The Ashmolean Museum.
• Christ Church Meadow.
• The Pitt Rivers and Natural History Museums.
• Punting.
• Radcliffe Square and the Sheldonian Theatre.
• Ancient Pubs.
• Port Meadow and Binsey.

Things to do in Oxford on a Day Trip

1. Take a walking tour. One thing Jess and I did this time round that was different to my previous visits was to take an official walking tour.
2. Visit the University Colleges.
3. Go Punting.
4. Imbibe a Beverage.
5. Visit Oxford Castle.
6. Climb the University Church.

Now that that’s out of the way, here are the prettiest colleges in Oxford which you absolutely need to visit!

• 1) Magdalen College.
• 2) Balliol College.
• 3) Christ Church College.
• 4) Worcester College.
• 5) All Souls College.
• 6) New College.

The University of Oxford is one of most prestigious and picturesque universities in the entire world. Nearly 24,000 students call this storied campus home. Individual colleges are walled off, and each one has its own green, dormitory, and dining hall; most look like they came straight from a Harry Potter movie set.

Cambridge is easier and more charming — with its lovely gardens along the River Cam. Oxford is more substantial with lots more to see and do. If you’re choosing between them, consider this: Cambridge feels like a lazy, easygoing small town; Oxford has more urban energy and more stately buildings than its rival.

Your University The University of Cambridge acceptance rate in 2016 showed applicants had a 26% chance of getting in – while the University of Oxford acceptance rate showed applicants had just a 17% chance of success. Our research shows that more students apply to Oxford – 59% of 2016 applicants that we surveyed.

Top 10 hardest courses to crack:

• Economics and management, Oxford. Applications: 1,149.
• Computer science, Oxford. Applications: 238.
• Architecture, Cambridge. Applications: 403.
• Medicine, Oxford. Applications: 1,433.
• History and politics: Oxford.
• Law with law studies in Europe, Oxford.
• Economics, Cambridge.
• Fine Art, Oxford.