Oxford University Walking Tour: An Insight Into Student Life and Famous Colleges

Experience the magic of Oxford University on a 2-hour student-led walking tour. Explore famous colleges, visit Harry Potter film sites, and discover the rich history of this prestigious institution.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • University of Oxford - With a history spanning nearly 800 years, the University boasts over 38 Colleges, Libraries, and Faculty buildings. It features some of England’s finest architecture and has educated world-renowned students across generations.
  • Merton College - Considered one of the three oldest colleges at Oxford, this tour delves into…
What's Included
  • Professional guide
  • All taxes, fees and handling charges included
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Take a genuine 2-hour tour of Oxford University, led by a student of the university, which includes locations featured in the Harry Potter movies and the Bodleian Library. This tour provides a glimpse into the academic life in this illustrious university, and also provides a detailed history of many renowned institutions and landmarks, including All…

Location
15-16 Broad St
Broad Street
Please be at 16 Broad Street (Oxford Tourist Information) 15 minutes before the start of the tour
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Odyssey68564505179
May 27, 2025
Thoroughly enjoyable - Sam Day was great. Clearly passionate about the city, the university and particularly his college. A great deal learnt, some fantastic history, trivia and clever anecdotes. 2.5hours with a short break in the 'new' library is just about right. Watch out for cobbled paving in some areas.
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H9978uqwilliamt
Apr 15, 2025
Touring through Oxford University’s fine establishments, including reasoning of why you should get a ticket for yourself - Within the confines of our two hour tour we were told and show so much about the University of Oxford. It’s so spectacular the ability of which you are immersed into these stories the tour guide explain to you (in our case of my experience, our tour guide was a very bright alumni by the name of Freddie). We were indeed very lucky with a guide like that as he was very knowledgeable on the history of the University and the presiding colleges, but the most important aspect of his ability to teach us was his youthful charisma and his openness for questions. The positives of this journey aren’t only justified by the time constraints of the tour as, in fact, we were able to see so many stunning sights and after the tour was finished, the guide provided us recommendations of more divine things to see in the town which more often than not happened to be free. In the case of our tour we explored Trinity College, Bodleian Library, etc. Most if not everything on our tour was satisfactory and I write this review with the intent that more people would purchase a ticket for this tour so that they too can experience the same enjoyment I had when visiting the city of Oxford. As this review comes to a close, I want to acknowledge that the tour itself doesn’t only make us to look at the ravishing architecture, but they actually explain how what we see today has occurred. I thank you for reading and I highly urge you to buy a ticket for the “Oxford University Walking Tour With University Alumni Guide”. Sincerely, William Tonning (a very happy customer)
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Margherita2323
Mar 1, 2025
Amazing! - Amazing guide! Super nice experience! Funny and interesting walking tour of the city center with this young lady Oxford student!
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Navigate27601036452
Mar 1, 2025
Excellent guide, learned lots! - Really interesting tour, Ollie was a great guide, very knowledgeable and spoke very clearly and loud enough for the big group to hear. Loved the tour, perfect introduction as someone who has just moved to the city! Also now have many other ideas of what else to see and do.
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695fixm
Feb 4, 2025
Oxford Educational tour - Recently visited Oxford to have educational tour with university's alumni guide, Adam. It was a superb academic tour.
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Pingz52
Dec 22, 2024
Highly recommended 👍 - Jacob is very informative and a fantastic storyteller. As an English literature PhD student, he provided us loads stories of British history. I loved the poems told by Jacob about the Oxford Martyrs. Great experience for us!
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Cassandra_m
Nov 28, 2024
Very Educational and Fun - Great tour. Guide was very knowledgable. We got to see the major colleges and the major buildings. We also got to here a lot about the history and the traditions.
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Diane_d
Nov 18, 2024
2 hour university tour - We brought our family for the 2 hr tour and it was perfect! We had a graduation the next day to attend so it was great for everyone to get familiar with Oxford. Our tour guide had great history knowledge and did a great job!
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209marcp
May 28, 2025
University city - With a guide we mainly explored the neighbourhood of Christ Church and Radcliffe Camera. Pretty impressive buildings in this medium-sized city of 165,000 inhabitants.
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Tan_l
Jan 29, 2025
Disappointment - Dear manager, We are extremely disappointed on this tour as we thought we have chance to enter racdliff camera for 10mins which is stated cleared in Viator before we made any booking . This is second times we travel back to Oxford and we don't go back again for couple of years later. This tour is like looking around nothing special as first trip here even price is cheapest. We have received replied from footprints your that this place is not allowed to visit by visitor but why your website is mentioned is free admission ticket
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).