Study in Oxford

Experience the Globe’s Most Storied Institution of Higher Learning

What started in 2018 as a Spring Break trip led by Kinder Institute Director Jay Sexton has since grown into a trio of programs developed in partnership with Corpus Christi College and the Rothermere American Institute that provide MU undergraduates with a variety of pathways for experiencing the academic, cultural, and historical traditions of Oxford University.

Oxford Programs

Ranging in length from a week, to a month, to a year the programs below all allow students to experience the UK in whatever way works for them.

Where it all started, this weeklong excursion across the Atlantic over Spring Break is built into the four-credit hour “Global History at Oxford” spring seminar (HIST 4075 or 4075H), which, depending on the professor, explores anything from the history of empire to “Churchill and the World.”

A joint venture of the Kinder Institute, MU Honors College, and Rothermere American Institute, this program sends 20 Honors students to the UK every July for an immersive month of studying with Oxford professors and exploring historic sites around the university.

Students can earn up to eight credit hours over the month, through the core seminars on either the Glorious Revolution or applied politics, each of which contains a bespoke experiential field trip component, and smaller practicum classes that look at museum studies and policymaking. Outside of the classroom, students live in Oxford dorms, dine at the Corpus Christi high table, and have access to all university resources, including the unparalleled collections at the Bodleian Library.

Every year, the Oxford Fellowship sends an MU junior or senior who has demonstrated elite scholarly aptitude to the UK to spend three terms as a fully-embedded student of history at Corpus Christi College. Oxford Fellows will have access to the full slate of history tutorials for second-year Oxford students as well as all campus facilities and resources, including housing, dining halls, libraries, and museums.

Funding Opportunities

Students participating in the Global History Spring Break trip and Oxford Summer School are eligible to apply for need-based scholarship funding to help offset tuition and travel expenses associated with those. The Kinder Institute provides Oxford Fellows with one round-trip plane ticket, financial assistance to cover the difference between Oxford and MU tuition, and the Pat Oxford at Oxford scholarship, a $5,000 award named in honor of one of the Kinder Institute’s founding board members that is designed to help cover other costs associated with traveling to and living in the UK.

Apply to Study at Oxford

Applications for the spring class and summer school run through the MU Office of International Programs, opening each year at the beginning of the fall semester, with a deadline of November 1 (use the links below to navigate to the bespoke pages for those two programs).

Students who would like to be considered for the Oxford Fellowship should email the following to Kinder Institute Director of Undergraduate Studies Dr. Thomas Kane, KaneTC@missouri.edu, by the Friday before the beginning of Thanksgiving Break: a 10-page (min.) writing sample from a course in the social sciences or humanities (preferably a history course); two academic letters of reference; and an unofficial transcript. Interviews to determine the Oxford Fellow will then be held before the end of the fall term.