Your Oxford Home
"I lived in a house filled with other academically-minded people, and we didn't shy away from sorting through difficult questions. When one of my housemates walked into the kitchen and asked us what we thought about the relationship between God's foreknowledge and his standing outside time, I knew I belonged."
-- Beth Campbell, Trinity International University
(SSO - Spring 2006)
SCIO has two Oxford residences: Crick Road, a large semi-detached house north of the centre of town; and The Vines, a late-Victorian mansion on Headington Hill overlooking Oxford's ‘dreaming spires'.
Both houses have large common spaces where students can work, study, laugh, and just chill out. Both properties have substantial gardens where, when the weather is accommodating, students can relax and read, and, at the Vines, play football, croquet or ultimate disk.
SCIO places great significance on nurturing the student community that develops over the course of the semester. The programme is academically demanding, and the support network that develops between all the students is essential in helping everyone feel that they are staying on top of things! Every semester many sutdents have shared that over their time in Oxford they have formed some of their strongest ever friendships. The opportunity to live with like-minded people in one of the most beautiful cities in the world is exciting, profound, and fun.
Students applying to SSO will complete a rooming preference questionnaire that helps SCIO place students in the most suitable room available. Some rooms are single but most are shared with between one to three other people.
Do you have further questions about housing?
E-mail Aaron Stuvland, SSO Study Abroad Advisor at sso@bestsemester.com.
