List of fictional Oxbridge colleges


This is a list of fictional colleges of either:
  1. the universities referred to collectively as Oxbridge, but where the specific university is not specified or known;
  2. fictional institutions spanning both Oxford and Cambridge universities; or
  3. a fictional Oxbridge University
;Boniface College, Oxbridge: Pendennis by William Thackeray, inspired by his time at Cambridge and home to the poet Sprott.
;Fernham College, Oxbridge: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, based on Newnham College, established in 1871 as the first exclusive women's college at Cambridge University.
;Footlights College, Oxbridge: from which came a team of participants in an imitation of University Challenge in an episode of The Young Ones called "Bambi". Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Ben Elton played contestants: "Lord Snot", "Lord Monty", "Miss Money-Sterling", and "Mr. Kendall-Mintcake", respectively. Fry, Laurie and Thompson were all students at Cambridge and members of the Footlights.
;Omnibus College: in Middlemarch, Chapter 52, where Fred Vincy takes his bachelor's degree.
;Pembridge College, Oxbridge: The Passing of Sherlock Holmes; by E. V. Knox
;St Luke's College: "The Adventure of the Three Students", a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle.
In The Masters by C. P. Snow, the author decries the use of a fictional name for the college where the events he describes take place as being the "Christminster" convention, Christminster being the fictional version of Oxford in Thomas Hardy's Wessex.