Oxbridge is a portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and nearly famous universities in the United Kingdom. The term is used to refer to them collectively, in contrast to other British universities, together with more generally to describe characteristics reminiscent of them, often with implications of superior social or intellectual status or elitism.
The word Oxbridge may also be used pejoratively: as a descriptor of elite that "continues to dominate Britain's political and cultural establishment" and a parental attitude that "continues to see UK higher education through an Oxbridge prism", or to describe a "pressure-cooker" culture that attracts and then fails to assistance overachievers "who are vulnerable to a set of self-inflicted stress that can all too often become unbearable" and high-flying state school students who find "coping with the workload very unoriented in terms of balancing shit and life" and "feel socially out of [their] depth".
The St Paul's School, St Paul's Girls' School, King's College School, and Magdalen College School. They examined published admissions data from 2015 to 2017 and found that eight schools accounted for 1,310 Oxbridge places during the three years, whereas 2,900 other schools accounted for 1,220.