Mansfield College, Oxford

05/10/2026

College is better with our students! ✨

After a busy weekend of move-ins and welcome-backs, our College is full of life again! Whether you’re joining us for the first time or returning for another year, we’re so happy to have you here. 😍

Welcome home - here’s to a brilliant year ahead! ✨🎓🏡

02/10/2026

More spaces to learn. More horizons to expand. More opportunities to thrive.

That’s the idea at the heart of More Mansfield. Forever. and we’re delighted that the campaign has been named a finalist in the Campaign In-House Agency Awards 2026, in the new Not for Profit category! 🎉

Our Estate Transformation Project is about much more than buildings. It’s about what those spaces make possible for Mansfield students today, and for generations to come.

That’s the story we wanted our campaign to tell and we’re thrilled to see it recognised.

More Mansfield. Forever. 🧡❤️

01/10/2026

Hong Kong alumni and friends – there’s still time to join us!

We warmly welcome Mansfield alumni and friends based in Hong Kong and the surrounding region to join us for an evening reception, reconnect with the College community, and catch up with fellow Mansfielders.

📅 Thursday 22 October 2026
⏰ 18:00–20:00
👗 Smart casual

The reception is free to attend, but please RSVP by Wednesday 7 October to secure your place below ⤵

Whether you’re based in Hong Kong or travelling in from nearby, we hope you can join us! ❤️

We warmly invite you to an evening with Principal Helen Mountfield KC, Associate Development Director James Bennett, and Alumni Relations Officer Ellie Hutson. Reconnect with fellow alumni and friends while hearing the latest news and updates from your College as we celebrate our 140th anniversary y...

25/09/2026

PPE has become one of Oxford’s best-known degrees but how an when did it find its place at Mansfield? We look back at its beginnings at the College in our latest 140 Stories. ⤵

When Professor Michael Freeden arrived as Mansfield’s first Politics Fellow in 1978, PPE was still finding its feet at the College, with just four students a year. Nearly half a century later, it is firmly woven into Mansfield’s academic life. This is the story of how one of Oxford’s best-know...

22/09/2026

From the black tie of the 1960s to 200 litres of ice cream in the 1990s, fire-eaters, underwater worlds, and rooms dedicated to the seven deadly sins, we delve into the archives to revisit some memorable Mansfield College balls. 🪩🍾

140 Storis for 140 Years | more on our website 🧡

For generations of Mansfield students, the College Ball has been a chance to transform familiar surroundings into something altogether different. From the black tie of the 1960s to 200 litres of ice cream in the 1990s, fire-eaters, underwater worlds and rooms dedicated to the seven deadly sins, we d...

21/09/2026

Congratulations to Mansfield student Aria Puri (Physics, 2024) and the Cloq team, winners of the £25,000 prize at the Reuben Entrepreneurship Forum! 🎉

Cloq is developing compact, low-cost quantum clocks - and will next represent The University of Oxford at Stage Two in Berlin this October.

A fantastic achievement for the whole team! 👏

09/09/2026

Dear diary, we did the trend. ✍️

Oxford: a solid 9.5/10.
Mansfield: 10/10 obviously.

Come find your POV at our Open Day, Friday 18 September. 😍

08/09/2026

"I have loved every moment studying and living at Mansfield College. It is my very, very biased view definitely the best college at college at Oxford, not only in terms of its ambition and spirit of audacity, but in terms of its emphasis on community and inclusion."

Meet our Theology and Religion student Edward Waring and read his Oxford story below 👇

Edward Waring is a second year Theology and Religion student at Mansfield College. In this student story, Edward shares his experience of college life and study at Oxford, and about his involvement with the Oxford University Neurodiversity Society.

07/09/2026

Huge congratulations to our History student, Esther Hughes, who has won the Women's History Network Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025/26! 🎉

Esther received the prize for her dissertation, “Exploring the materiality of the medieval noblewoman’s home: a comparison of the inventories of Alice Chaucer and Margery de la Beche.”

We are delighted to announce the winner of the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025-2026 is Esther Hughes for “Exploring the materiality of the medieval noblewoman’s home: a comparison of th…

03/09/2026

“People like me don’t go to Oxford.”
 
“I don’t go to the right school.”
 
Heard these before?
 
In just two weeks, our Open Day is your chance to challenge the assumptions that might be holding you back. Come and meet current students and tutors, explore Mansfield, ask your questions, and see what studying at Oxford is really like.
 
One visit could be all it takes to see that you belong here. 🫶
 
📅 Friday 18 September 2026
📍 Mansfield College
 
We’d love to see you here at Manfield! ❤️💛🧡