University Oxford Blog

There are 39 colleges in the Oxford University. Because of great demand on American culture and history and great amount of American students the Oxford University administration established Oxford Institute for American Studies. This educational institution studies, researches and teaches the American culture, history, politics and government. The director of this institute is Mr. Howe, professor of American history.

There are many talented and experienced teachers in the university, who came usually from US. One of the most experienced teachers is John Elliott, a professor of modern history. He came from Princeton, where he taught in the Institute for Advanced Study. Nowadays he has an aim to tell the students in Britain as much as possible about American History. He confirms that snobbery and antipathy towards the US are widespread among the people because of reputation of the USA in the world as dominant power. If it will change, the attitude of people will change as well.

Moreover, he says, that as Oxford is one of the oldest and famous educational institutions in English speaking world and because of it this University can become the best link between Europe countries and USA. He does not mean the aim is to create special Anglo-American relations, but he confirms that a link between Europe and America is necessary. In fact Britain and USA have much in common and they have similar aims, so they have to collaborate. Besides, Oxford university influence on other universities of Europe, as it has good reputation in academic world and many educational institutions become interested in the relations with US. As a result, 38 educational institutions in Europe offer undergraduate degree programs in American Studies and 13 universities provide postgraduate degree programs. Nowadays Oxford university have about 10 000 of American Alumni, including former president of the USA Clinton.