All new undergraduate Freshers starting at Magdalen in October 2025
We look forward to welcoming you to Magdalen.
Please click on the links below to download the contracts, forms, and documents that you need to prepare before you arrive. Please deal immediately with the paperwork that needs to be returned. You will need to send a separate passport-style photograph (i.e. head and shoulders only, in colour) electronically with your forms, in addition to one included in your University Card form.
All forms that require a signature must be physically signed, or must have a scanned copy of your hand written signature inserted electronically, before being returned. Typed-in names will not be accepted. The photograph and copies of all required forms (each saved as separate documents) must be returned in one email to the Tutorial Administrators, Pavla Piskovska and Emma Booth (tutorial.administrator@magd.ox.ac.uk) as soon as possible but to reach them no later than noon on Friday 5 September 2025. Forms should be returned in a standard format (Word or pdf formats are strongly preferred) and you must not embed any pages into the body of your email.
Forms to complete and return directly to the Tutorial Administrators by noon on Friday 5 September 2025:
UG25-1 University Card form (a photograph must be attached within form in the space indicated on the form)
UG25-2 College Contract (please return the entire contract, as one complete saved document)
UG25-3a (For Home (UK) or ROI students) Letter from the Senior Tutor and Tutorial Office form
UG25-3b (For Overseas students) Letter from the Senior Tutor and Tutorial Office form
UG25-3c (For Islands students) Letter from the Senior Tutor and Tutorial Office form
UG25-4 Letter from the College Librarian, Library Rules, and a Library Guide (the library ‘Undertaking’ form must be returned to the Tutorial Administrators)
UG25-5 Note on Academic Dress and order form
Medical Notes and Immunisation information to be printed and read carefully. Registration with the College Doctor via link UG25-6c to be completed online noon on by noon on Friday 5 September 2025:
UG25-6a Medical Notes
UG25-6b Immunisation information
UG25-6c Registration with the College Doctor to be completed by noon on 5 September (click the link and complete the forms that follow)
UG25-6d Welcome letter from the College Doctor
Important information to be downloaded, printed, and read carefully:
UG25-7 Induction timetables
UG25-8 Letter from the President
UG25-9a Letter from the President of the JCR
UG25-9b Additional letter from the President of the JCR (for International students only)
UG25-10 Information on student computing in Magdalen College
UG25-11 Letter from the College Chaplain
UG25-12 Note about the Accommodation Licence Agreement and a Specimen Summary Acceptance Form
UG25-13 Information and Regulations for Members of the College 2025-26 (You are required to read this thoroughly before coming up, but you do not need to print it. You will be given a hard copy on arrival.)
UG25-14 University Student Handbook 2025-26 (please read the information in this handbook and save the link for future reference)
UG25-15 Safe cycling in Oxford
PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO SEND THE ADDITIONAL PASSPORT-STYLE PHOTOGRAPH OF YOURSELF!
Magdalen’s JCR (Junior Common Room) has produced a Freshers’ handbook for you to download here.