Accommodation

Ask any of our students and they will tell you that the accommodation here is one of our best kept secrets. Oxford student rooms tend to be typecast as small, damp, and antiquated. This is not the case at Harris Manchester!

Accommodation in College

All College accommodation is on the main site. Undergraduate students can be accommodated in college for the first and generally also the final year of their course. We can also accommodate some postgraduates for their first year, and these rooms are allocated by ballot. Residents have access to a communal launderette and shared kitchens - and of course have direct access to the facilities available for all students.

Charges

Accommodation Charges (Battels) cover a single study-bedroom (with no extra bills), and 17 meals per week (= 3 meals per day, Monday to Friday and brunch on Saturday and Sunday). Undergraduates are housed on the short contract, which covers term time, and postgraduates are housed on the long contract, which covers term time, plus the Christmas and Easter Vacations.

Vacation accommodation may be made available to undergraduates depending on availability, and will be charged at an additional daily rate.

Meals out of term time cannot be guaranteed and are charged in addition to the above amount. The College has no official self-catered accommodation but kitchenettes are spread evenly around the college site for the use of students.

All rooms have WiFi and the majority are en-suite. There is a mix of modernised 16th and 17th Century houses and some newly constructed accommodation built in a classical style, including the recently completed clock tower building.

The small print

It is not usually possible for undergraduates students to live in College in vacations, but they may store some of their belongings in College, with the agreement of the Accommodation Manager.

No student is required to live in college for any part of their course, but the University's regulations require residence within six miles (or, in certain circumstances, 25 miles) of the centre of Oxford. Please note that we are unable to provide accommodation for couples or families on the college site.

Harris Manchester has signed up to and is compliant with the Universities UK Code of Practice for the Management of Student Housing.