Divisions
The University of Oxford has four academic divisions, within which are individual departments, faculties or other centres. Click on the headings below to reveal the different departments, faculties or centres that make up the four academic divisions, or scroll to the bottom for a video explanation of the remit of each division's research.
The Department for Continuing Education forms a fifth grouping and although not organised into separate faculties or departments, its board and teachers have the same responsibilities as the divisions.
Humanities
The Humanities Division is made up of the following departments, faculties and centres:
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and Phonetics Laboratory
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
The Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division is made up of the following departments, faculties and centres:
Department of Computer Science
Medical Sciences
The Medical Sciences Division is made up of the following departments, faculties and centres:
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Department of Experimental Psychology
Radcliffe Department of Medicine
Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
Social Sciences
The Social Sciences Division is made up of the following departments, faculties and centres:
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Blavatnik School of Government
School of Geography and the Environment
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies
Department of International Development
Department of Politics and International Relations
The Humanities Division
The Medical Sciences Division
The Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
The Social Sciences Division
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