Doxbridge

Entrance to Durham's University College (Castle)

Doxbridge is a portmanteau of Durham, Oxford, and Cambridge, referring to the universities of those names.[1] It is an expansion of the more popular portmanteau Oxbridge, referring to Oxford and Cambridge universities and similar to the portmanteau Loxbridge, referring to London, Oxford and Cambridge.[2]

The Doxbridge portmanteau has failed to gain widespread recognition and is usually used tongue-in-cheek.[1][3][4][5][6] Nonetheless, many of the characteristics used to identify Oxford and Cambridge as distinct from other British universities are also identifiable to varying extents in Durham,[7][8][9] and the term has been used seriously in analysis of the legal jobs market.[10]

  1. ^ a b "Debate: Rather be at Oxbridge than Doxbridge?". The Tab Cambridge. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  2. ^ Morgan, K. J. (2004). "The research assessment exercise in English universities, 2001". Higher Education. 48 (4): 461–482. doi:10.1023/B:HIGH.0000046717.11717.06. JSTOR 4151567. S2CID 145505001.
  3. ^ "Is Doxbridge a thing? We asked Oxbridge students". The Tab Durham. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  4. ^ Alexandra Fitzgerald, Arya Thampuran, Emma Yeo, GK Teh, Isabel Cridland and Katie Allen (6 November 2014). "Doxbridge: a chip on our collective shoulders?". Palatinate. Retrieved 5 March 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Carlson, Katie (11 June 2017). "The Oxford Revue And 'Friends': A Review". The Oxford Student.
  6. ^ Hollingshead, Iain (19 February 2012). "How middle-class are you? Take this quiz". The Daily Telegraph. Which university did you go to? ... Doxbridge – well, Durham, if you must know
  7. ^ "For a real Oxbridge education, you now have to go to Durham". The Spectator. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  8. ^ gversion.com (22 September 2016). "How the Rest of the UK's Top Ten Universities Compare to Oxford". Oxford Summer School from Oxford Royale Academy. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  9. ^ Katie King (2017). "We asked the head of Durham Law School if Doxbridge is a thing". Legal Cheek.
  10. ^ "Law firms' preferred universities 2019". Chambers Student. Retrieved 28 July 2019. When we leave London, we find Oxbridge only coming in at ninth and tenth on the chart. Durham has taken a slide too. When we look at what replaces Doxbridge, we see universities in big cities with legal markets significant enough to keep graduates hanging around.