Corpus Christi College

College facilities

Library and IT services

Corpus Christi has an excellent college library, centred on the magnificent sixteenth-century Old Library, with around 70,000 books on open shelves. The library has elegant reading rooms, on-line access to a variety of electronic resources and general access to the University network and the internet via Wi-Fi. A new Special Collections Centre and modern extension to the current library is expected to open in October 2024.

The library is open 24 hours a day for members of the college.

Internet access is available in all student rooms and properties. Wireless access is available across the main college site and in all college accommodation

Printing, scanning and photocopying facilities are available on the main site. 

Sport, music and college facilities

Corpus Christi offers a wide range of extra-curricular activities to graduate students.

Middle Common Room (MCR) members can join any of the clubs and societies run by the JCR as well as their own. 

There is a popular college choir, and opportunities to take part in plays and musicals.

Facilities for disabled students

Access to most areas of the college is possible for disabled students and ad hoc arrangements can be made, within reason, to suit individual needs.

There is one purpose-built flat off the main site for a disabled student and one room on the main site has been adapted for a wheelchair user. Other rooms have been adapted for the hearing-impaired.

Welfare

Corpus is a community of diverse people with diverse needs. Senior and junior members work collaboratively to provide welfare support for all Corpus students. There are a range of people who work to meet the welfare needs of students. Sometimes a peer is the right person to talk to; sometimes it is someone older and more experienced. Both are available. The Senior Welfare team consists of the Dean of Welfare, the Tutor for Welfare, a Student Support Officer, an on-site Counsellor and a College Nurse and Doctor, as well as the Academic Registrar, the Tutor for Graduates, and each student’s Graduate Adviser. There are also peer supporters and MCR welfare officers,

For more information about pastoral support available at Corpus and the University, please contact the College Office.

MCR

All graduate students are members of the Corpus Christi Middle Common Room (MCR), where there is a limitless supply of tea, coffee and biscuits available in addition to daily newspapers. The MCR also has a large TV and a computer with free printing.

The MCR Committee organises a varied programme of social and sporting events including MCR/SCR seminars, with papers delivered alternately by graduates and Fellows.

MCR members can dine at High Table twice each year, and a small number of MCR members can sign up for lunch with the fellows of the college every Monday in term