Oxford College
Start small. Go far. At Oxford College, your Emory experience begins in a close-knit community where professors know you well, opportunities to lead come early, and classmates quickly become friends. Spend your first two years learning, exploring, and making an impact at Oxford, then continue your Emory education on the Atlanta campus.
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Student Life at Oxford
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Lead Early
Run for student government, take on a leadership role, or help create something new. You do not have to wait until junior year to make an impact.
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Get Involved
Find your community through student organizations, campus activities, identity and affinity groups, and shared interests. Or bring your own ideas to campus.
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Create
Perform, make music, act, create art, and find opportunities to express yourself.
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Give Back
Connect with Oxford and the surrounding community through service and civic engagement.
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Stay Active
Play on an intramural team, work out, take a fitness class, or find your own way to stay active.
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Experience a Working Farm
Study, volunteer, or spend time at the Oxford Organic Farm, a working farm and living laboratory right on campus.
Two Campuses. One Emory Experience.
Oxford is the beginning of your Emory journey.
Spend your first two years at Oxford building strong relationships, exploring your academic interests, and taking advantage of opportunities to contribute and lead.
Traditions You Will Make Your Own
Race for bragging rights during Oxford Olympics. Grab pancakes during finals. Celebrate milestones alongside friends who may have been strangers just months before.
Oxford traditions bring students, faculty, and staff together and create the shared experiences that become part of your Emory story.
Live Where Everything Happens
Living on campus puts your Oxford community right outside your door. Friends, classes, meals, activities, performances, the library, student center, and gym are all just minutes away.
Oxford’s residential experience makes it easier to meet people, get involved, and feel connected from your first days on campus.
Support Is Close By
Starting college is exciting, and it is also an adjustment. At Oxford, health, wellness, fitness, and peer resources are close at hand, with a community designed to help students connect and thrive.
Beyond the Oxford Campus
Grab dinner with friends, browse local shops, study over coffee, attend a community event, or recognize a film location from one of your favorite shows.
Just a mile from campus, Covington’s historic square gives Oxford students a lively destination beyond campus and another place to gather, explore, and connect.
Picture Yourself at Oxford
The best way to understand Oxford is to experience it.
Walk the Quad. See where students live and learn. Explore Covington. Meet the people who make Oxford feel like a community. Then imagine what your first two years at Emory could look like here.