WISC conducts an associate programme with several colleges of the University of Oxford for students with minimum indices of 3.2 (the average index for last year was 3.7). Although students are degree candidates of their home college and not of the University of Oxford, they are taught in the same way and to the same standard by Oxford tutors who normally teach degree candidates.
Students may enrol for one term, two terms or the entire academic year. Qualified students recommended by WISC are Associate Students (affiliated members of their Junior Common Room) of their Oxford Colleges and are taught by their personal tutors in the same way as degree candidates. Graduate study is available.
By prior arrangements, these students are academically supervised by their US home colleges, not by their College in Oxford. Students who have applied for credit transfer through this system have always been awarded credit toward their home college degree, only the degree awarding college can do this. These students made proper arrangements with their home college academic departments in advance and future students must do the same. Students may receive a transcript as overseas students of an accredited US College.
Associate students are eligible for the same housing (including possible college rooms) in the very centre of Oxford (with British students) as Visiting Students. All the added benefits of WISC are included in their programme.
As we stress in our Student Handbook and elsewhere, there are some limitations on library use and other facilities outside their host college, in which they have many privileges, including borrowing rights in the college library. Most of the Oxford Colleges we work with offer e-mail and computer facilities but Trinity College, St. Edmund Hall and a few others do not. A lap-top computer in Oxford might be useful. Students may use e-mail in the WISC office.