University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world

University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. There is no clear date of foundation but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096. Oxford operates the Ashmolean Museum, the world’s oldest university museum, and Oxford University Press, the largest university press in the world. It hosts the Rhodes scholarship, one of the oldest international graduate scholarship programmes. Oxford’s notable alumni include 30 U.K. prime ministers and many world heads of state and government. As of 2022, 73 Nobel Prize laureates, 4 Fields Medallists and 6 Turing Award winners have matriculated, worked or held visiting fellowships at Oxford, while its alumni have won 170 Olympic medals.