St Hilda's College
This page is for St Hilda’s undergraduate offer-holders whose offers are fully unconditional and who are due to join the College in October 2024.
Please read everything on this page carefully, as it contains very important information about preparing for your arrival at St Hilda’s.
You should find here everything you need to know about starting life in College. If you cannot find the answers to your questions here, you are welcome to email:
- the College Office with academic queries
- the Accounts Office with financial queries, including payment of fees
- the Accommodation Office with accommodation queries; if you are coming from overseas and wish to arrive on 4 or 5 October, please inform the Accommodation Office in advance)
- What you must do before you arrive
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Now:
- read your Welcome Letter from the Academic Registrar
- read the Freshers' Welcome Guide
- read the Freshers FAQs
- read the Student Handbook
- read the Freshers’ Week Timetable
By 1 September:
- Sign and return your student contract and University card form, together with a passport-sized photo, to college.office@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
- Complete the St Hilda’s Freshers’ Form
- Complete the NHS (National Health Service) registration
After 1 September:
- Complete your University Registration. You will be sent your IT activation code and log-in details to your personal (non-Oxford) email address, once you have returned your signed contract. Your password and log-in is called your Single Sign On (SSO), which is the Oxford system for accessing a range of IT services, including Student Self Service.
- Other important information you should read
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- Freshers' Study Guide
- College map
- Welcome from the Domestic Bursar
- Meals
- IT at St Hilda’s
- College Payment Policy
- Undergraduate fees and charges
- Money Matters
- Disabilities
- Immunisations
- Electrical regulations
- Information about the Writing Fellow and the study support offered
- Academic Dress
- Oxford Transition Support (a University of Oxford resource about transitioning into university life)
- Opening a UK bank account
- Cycling in Oxford
- Information from external suppliers with discounts on gowns and books
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When you received your University Offer (through UCAS) you were provided with a link to the University Student Handbook. This document is updated annually. Please do familiarise yourself with the content of the new booklet for 2024/25.