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lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Oxbridge" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AC" title="آکسبریج – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آکسبریج" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge" title="Oxbridge – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Oxbridge" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%A5%EC%8A%A4%EB%B8%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%A7%80" title="옥스브리지 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="옥스브리지" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%95%D6%84%D5%BD%D5%A2%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%BB" title="Օքսբրիջ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Օքսբրիջ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge" title="Oxbridge – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Oxbridge" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge" title="Oxbridge – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Oxbridge" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%93%D7%92%27" title="אוקסברידג' – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אוקסברידג'" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge" title="Oxbridge – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Oxbridge" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%DA%86" title="اوكسبريدچ – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="اوكسبريدچ" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge" title="Oxbridge – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Oxbridge" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8" title="オックスブリッジ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="オックスブリッジ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge" title="Oxbridge – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Oxbridge" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oksbrij" title="Oksbrij – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Oksbrij" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge" title="Oxbridge – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Oxbridge" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge" title="Oxbridge – Portuguese" lang="pt" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Arms_of_Oxbridge.svg/330px-Arms_of_Oxbridge.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Arms_of_Oxbridge.svg/440px-Arms_of_Oxbridge.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1027" data-file-height="602" /></a><figcaption>Arms of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> (left) and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a> (right)</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Oxbridge</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Portmanteau" class="mw-redirect" title="Portmanteau">portmanteau</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Universities of Oxford</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most famous universities in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. The term is used to refer to them collectively, in contrast to other British universities, and more broadly to describe characteristics reminiscent of them, often with implications of superior social or intellectual status or <a href="/wiki/Elitism" title="Elitism">elitism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxbridge&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although both universities were founded more than eight centuries ago, the term <i>Oxbridge</i> is relatively recent. In <a href="/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray" title="William Makepeace Thackeray">William Makepeace Thackeray</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/Pendennis" title="Pendennis">Pendennis</a></i>, published in 1850, the main character attends the fictional <a href="/wiki/List_of_fictional_Oxbridge_colleges" title="List of fictional Oxbridge colleges">Boniface College, Oxbridge</a>. According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a></i>, the first recorded use of the word was by <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a>, who, citing <a href="/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray" title="William Makepeace Thackeray">William Makepeace Thackeray</a>, referenced it in her 1929 essay "<a href="/wiki/A_Room_of_One%27s_Own" title="A Room of One's Own">A Room of One's Own</a>." 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A notable exception is Tokyo's <i>Cambridge and Oxford Society</i>; this probably arises from the fact that the Cambridge Club was founded there first, and also had more members than its Oxford counterpart when they amalgamated in 1905.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Meaning">Meaning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxbridge&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Meaning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Percentage_of_state-school_students_at_Oxford_and_Cambridge.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Percentage_of_state-school_students_at_Oxford_and_Cambridge.png/220px-Percentage_of_state-school_students_at_Oxford_and_Cambridge.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Percentage_of_state-school_students_at_Oxford_and_Cambridge.png/330px-Percentage_of_state-school_students_at_Oxford_and_Cambridge.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Percentage_of_state-school_students_at_Oxford_and_Cambridge.png/440px-Percentage_of_state-school_students_at_Oxford_and_Cambridge.png 2x" data-file-width="912" data-file-height="456" /></a><figcaption>Percentage of <a href="/wiki/State_school" title="State school">state school</a> students at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Club_house_flags.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Club_house_flags.JPG/220px-Club_house_flags.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Club_house_flags.JPG/330px-Club_house_flags.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Club_house_flags.JPG/440px-Club_house_flags.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1190" data-file-height="1182" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Oxford_and_Cambridge_Club" title="Oxford and Cambridge Club">Oxford and Cambridge Club</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In addition to being a collective term, <i>Oxbridge</i> is often used as shorthand for characteristics the two institutions share: </p> <ul><li>They are the two <a href="/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation" title="List of oldest universities in continuous operation">oldest universities in continuous operation</a> in the UK. Both were founded more than 800 years ago,<sup id="cite_ref-oxfordhistory_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxfordhistory-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cambridgehistory_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cambridgehistory-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and continued as England's only universities (barring short-lived foundations, such as those at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Northampton_(13th_century)" title="University of Northampton (13th century)">Northampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stamford_University_(England)" title="Stamford University (England)">Stamford</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_College,_Durham_(17th_century)" title="New College, Durham (17th century)">Durham</a>) until the 19th century. Between them, they have educated a large number of Britain's most prominent scientists, writers, and politicians, as well as noted figures in many other fields.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_20080316_1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian_20080316_1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guardian_20080316_2_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian_20080316_2-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Each has a similar <a href="/wiki/Collegiate_university" title="Collegiate university">collegiate structure</a>, whereby the university is a cooperative of its constituent colleges, which are responsible for <a href="/wiki/Tutorial_system" title="Tutorial system">supervisions/tutorials</a> (the principal undergraduate teaching method, unique to Oxbridge), accommodation and pastoral care.</li> <li><style 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title="Oxford Union">Oxford Union</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Union" title="Cambridge Union">Cambridge Union</a>), and notable comedy groups (<a href="/wiki/The_Oxford_Revue" title="The Oxford Revue">The Oxford Revue</a> and <a href="/wiki/Footlights" title="Footlights">The Cambridge Footlights</a>). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:292px;max-width:292px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:135px;max-width:135px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:103px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ashmolean_Museum_Entrance_May_2017.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Ashmolean_Museum_Entrance_May_2017.png/133px-Ashmolean_Museum_Entrance_May_2017.png" decoding="async" width="133" height="104" class="mw-file-element" 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data-file-width="1117" data-file-height="768" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flow-root"><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" title="Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fitzwilliam_Museum" title="Fitzwilliam Museum">Fitzwilliam Museums</a></div></div></div></div></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93Cambridge_rivalry" title="Oxford–Cambridge rivalry">Rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge</a> also has a long history, dating back to around 1209, when Cambridge was founded by scholars taking refuge from hostile Oxford townsmen,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and celebrated to this day in <a href="/wiki/List_of_British_and_Irish_varsity_matches" title="List of British and Irish varsity matches">varsity matches</a> such as <a href="/wiki/The_Boat_Race" title="The Boat Race">The Boat Race</a>.</li> <li>They are usually the top-scoring institutions in cross-subject UK university rankings,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so they are targeted by ambitious pupils, parents and schools. Entrance is extremely competitive and some schools promote themselves based on the achievement Oxbridge offers. Combined, the two universities award over one-sixth of all English full-time research doctorates.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Oxford and Cambridge have common approaches to <a href="/wiki/University_and_college_admissions#Undergraduate_entry_2" class="mw-redirect" title="University and college admissions">undergraduate admissions</a>. Until the mid-1980s, entry was typically by sitting special entrance <a href="/wiki/Exams" class="mw-redirect" title="Exams">exams</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Applications must be made at least three months earlier than to other UK universities (the deadline for applications to Oxbridge is mid-October whereas the deadline for all other universities, apart from applicants for medicine, is in January).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, candidates may not apply to both Oxford and Cambridge in the same year,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> apart from a few exceptions (e.g. organ scholars).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most candidates achieve, or are predicted to achieve, outstanding results in their final school exams, and consequently interviews are usually used to check whether the course is well suited to the applicant's interests and aptitudes,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and to look for evidence of self-motivation, independent thinking, academic potential and ability to learn through the tutorial system.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Membership of the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_and_Cambridge_Club" title="Oxford and Cambridge Club">Oxford and Cambridge Club</a> is largely restricted to those who are members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxbridge&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eton_College.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Eton_College.jpg/220px-Eton_College.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Eton_College.jpg/330px-Eton_College.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Eton_College.jpg/440px-Eton_College.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3844" data-file-height="1850" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton College</a> is one of a number of schools that send a disproportionately large percentage of students to Oxbridge.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The word <i>Oxbridge</i> may also be used pejoratively: as a descriptor of <a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">social class</a> (referring to the professional classes who dominated the intake of both universities at the beginning of the twentieth century),<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as shorthand for an <a href="/wiki/Elite#Educational_elite" title="Elite">elite</a> that "continues to dominate Britain's political and cultural establishment"<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_20080316_1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian_20080316_1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a parental attitude that "continues to see UK higher education through an Oxbridge prism",<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or to describe a "pressure-cooker" culture that attracts and then fails to support overachievers "who are vulnerable to a kind of self-inflicted stress that can all too often become unbearable"<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and high-flying state school students who find "coping with the workload very difficult in terms of balancing work and life" and "feel socially out of [their] depth".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Sutton_Trust" title="Sutton Trust">Sutton Trust</a> maintains that the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a> and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> "recruit" disproportionately from eight schools (<a href="/wiki/Westminster_School" title="Westminster School">Westminster School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hills_Road_Sixth_Form_College" title="Hills Road Sixth Form College">Hills Road Sixth Form College</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_School,_London" title="St Paul's School, London">St Paul's School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Symonds_College" title="Peter Symonds College">Peter Symonds College</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Girls%27_School" title="St Paul's Girls' School">St Paul's Girls' School</a>, <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_School" title="King's College School">King's College School</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Magdalen_College_School,_Oxford" title="Magdalen College School, Oxford">Magdalen College School</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They examined published admissions data from 2015 to 2017 and found that, out of the 19,851 places during the three years, the eight schools accounted for 1,310, whereas 2,900 other schools with historically few admissions to Oxbridge accounted for 1,220.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Related_terms">Related terms <span class="anchor" id="Camford"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxbridge&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Related terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Other portmanteaus have been coined that extend the term <i>Oxbridge</i>, with different degrees of recognition: </p><p>The term <i>Loxbridge</i><sup id="cite_ref-talkscam_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-talkscam-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-loxbridge_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loxbridge-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is also used referring to the <a href="/wiki/Golden_triangle_(universities)" title="Golden triangle (universities)">golden triangle</a> of London, Oxford, and Cambridge. It was also adopted as the name of the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_history" title="Ancient history">Ancient History</a> conference now known as <i>AMPAH</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-AMPAH_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMPAH-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Doxbridge" title="Doxbridge">Doxbridge</a> is another example of this, referring to <a href="/wiki/Durham_University" title="Durham University">Durham</a>, Oxford and Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-doxbridge3_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-doxbridge3-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-doxbridge4_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-doxbridge4-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Doxbridge</i> was also used for an annual inter-collegiate sports tournament between some of the colleges of Durham, Oxford, Cambridge and <a href="/wiki/University_of_York" title="University of York">York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-doxbridge_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-doxbridge-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Woxbridge</i> is the name of the annual conference between the business schools of <a href="/wiki/University_of_Warwick" title="University of Warwick">Warwick</a>, Oxford and Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the <a href="/wiki/University_of_St_Andrews" title="University of St Andrews">University of St Andrews</a> topped the 2023 UK universities ranking in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, the top three institutions were labelled <i>Stoxbridge</i> to reflect the new order.<sup id="cite_ref-stoxbridge_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stoxbridge-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thackeray's <i><a href="/wiki/Pendennis" title="Pendennis">Pendennis</a></i>, which introduced the term <i>Oxbridge</i>, also introduced <i>Camford</i> as another combination of the university names – "he was a Camford man and very nearly got the English Prize Poem" – but this term has never achieved the same degree of usage as <i>Oxbridge</i>. Camford is, however, used as the name of a fictional university city in the <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> story <i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Creeping_Man" title="The Adventure of the Creeping Man">The Adventure of the Creeping Man</a></i> (1923). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxbridge&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armorial_of_British_universities" title="Armorial of British universities">Armorial of British universities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_triangle_(universities)" title="Golden triangle (universities)">Golden triangle</a>, sometimes referred to as Loxbridge: an unofficial grouping of Oxford, Cambridge and certain elite universities in London</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivy_League" title="Ivy League">Ivy League</a>, a grouping of eight elite universities in the United States</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93Cambridge_rivalry" title="Oxford–Cambridge rivalry">Oxford–Cambridge rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russell_Group" title="Russell Group">Russell Group</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxbridge&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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