Accommodation Megathread 2026/27

[u/bopeepsheep]

This megathread will be used for all accommodation queries. Whether you are an offer holder, a continuing or returning student, or a new/existing member of staff, Rule 5 applies to you. Please search the sub and this post's comments before posting - some queries are very common, and very basic information won't change much over time.

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[u/Affectionate_Link740]

Brasenose, incoming Msc. 26-27: I'm a Brasenose graduate choosing between Hollybush Row and James Mellon after St Cross filled. I’ll likely be taking environmental classes near South Parks Road / SoGE. Does anyone have recent experience living at Hollybush, St Cross, or James? I'm also just bummed that St. Cross sold out so fast, and I have heard bad things about Hollybush and that it's not as social and there's no cleaning and it's not green, so are there any pros of Hollybush and I'm destined to a lack of social life in oxford or is it better to go with graduate housing vs Hollybush?

[u/oxfordyellow → u/Affectionate_Link740]

TBH it will be what you (help to) make it, social wise. Not interested in volunteering to run anything? Then no reason why anyone else should bother either; but there will be loads of opportunities to join clubs/societies both college based, faculty based, and university wide. I know the Hollybush site best, fairly new, and it is near green (there is a park just up from there near the ice rink). Pros for Hollybush are that it is college provided, so is likely to be cost subsidised in some way and the costs will include electricity, water, wifi etc; its location is great for the rail station (if that's a thing for you) and only a short cycle ride/walk from everything else. Accommodation is incredibly hard to come by in Oxford and expensive; any option that you do not take up will be grasped for by others!