Question: How many constituent colleges does the University of Oxford have?
Context: Veer Kunwar Singh University, named after the well known national hero and distinguished freedom fighter of 1857, was established on 22 October 1992 with its Headquarter at Ara, under the Bihar University Act 1976 [as amendment Act 9 of 1992].  This University has already been enlisted in the list of recognized Universities under Section 2(f) of the U.G.C. Act.  All its 17 Constituent Colleges and one affiliated College are receiving financial assistance from U.G.C. by virtue of being Constituent/Affiliated Colleges of erstwhile Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya, Bihar.  Keeping in view the inadequacies of the facilities for Higher Education and Research in this region, the university has introduced new courses like B.C.A., B.Sc. (IT), B.B.A., B.Sc.  (Bio-technology) and B.Sc.  (Industrial Fisheries), B.Ed., M.B.A, M.C.A., M.Sc.  (Bio-technology), M.Sc. (Env.  Science), M.A.(P.M.I.R.) ad Bachelor of Library Science and Information Science from the academic session 2006-07.  The constituent and affiliated colleges of the university have introduced various UGC sponsored Certificate / Diploma / Advanced Diploma programmes such as D.C.A., rural management, tissue culture, fisheries, hospital waste management, fashion designing, e-commerce and computer hardware maintenance. Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan (Urdu: ‎ ) or AWKUM, is a public university located in Mardan, Pakistan.  Established in April 2009, the university is named after Abdul Wali Khan, a prominent personality of Pashtunkhwa and has forty nine institutions affiliated to it.  The university started in an already-built postgraduate college of Mardan, has nine campuses and more than ten thousand students enrolled in thirty one disciplines as of 2015.  The campus at Swabi was opened in October 2010 in the Anbar elementary college building and has since then become the University of Swabi and the Palosa campus is home to Bacha Khan University.  Currently the university has five faculties and three constituent colleges.  The faculties are Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Faculty of Chemical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Physical & Numerical Sciences, Faculty of Economics & Business, Faculty of Social Sciences.  The Pashtunkhwa College of Art, Womans' College and the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College are also constituent colleges of the University. Balliol College , founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The University of Oxford has 38 Colleges and six Permanent Private Halls (PPHs) of religious foundation.  Colleges and PPHs are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university, and all teaching staff and students studying for a degree at the university must belong to one of the colleges or PPHs.  These colleges are not only houses of residence, but have substantial responsibility for teaching undergraduate students.  Generally tutorials (one of the main methods of teaching in Oxford) and classes are the responsibility of colleges, while lectures, examinations, laboratories, and the central library are run by the university.  Most colleges take both graduates and undergraduates, but several are for graduates only. Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), formerly the Regional Technical College, Cork, is an Institute of Technology in Ireland, located in Cork, Ireland opened in 1973.  The institute has 17,000 students (both part-time and full-time) in art, business, engineering, music, drama and science disciplines.  Cork Institute of Technology comprises two constituent Faculties and three constituent Colleges.  The constituent Faculties are Engineering and Science, and Business and Humanities.  The constituent colleges are the CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, the CIT Cork School of Music and the National Maritime College of Ireland. Keble College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.  It was founded in memory of the Anglican clergyman John Keble, who died in 1866, and was intended to cater for men whose financial resources were insufficient to enable them to study at one of the older Oxford colleges.  After a public appeal for donations in John Keble's memory, the college opened in 1870.  The college's buildings – which were quite unlike any previous Oxford college, with their use of coloured bricks in patterns – were designed by William Butterfield; there have been later additions as the college has grown. The University of London Union (commonly referred to as ULU, pron.  'yoo-loo') was Europe's largest students' union, with over 120,000 students as the focus of its activities.  Each student was also a member of the student union of their individual college, as the University of London is a federal structure encompassing many constituent colleges. Jesus College Boat Club (commonly abbreviated to JCBC) is a rowing club for members of Jesus College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.  The club was formed in 1835, but rowing at the college predates the club's foundation: a boat from the college was involved in the earliest recorded races between college crews at Oxford in 1815, when it competed against Brasenose College.  In the early years of rowing at Oxford, Jesus was one of the few colleges that participated in races.  Neither the men's nor the women's 1st VIIIs have earned the title of "Head of the River", which is gained by winning Eights Week—the main inter-college rowing competition at Oxford. St Anne's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.  Formerly a women's college, it has been coeducational since 1979.  Founded in 1879 as The Society of Oxford Home-Students, it received its college status in 1952, and today it is one of the larger colleges in Oxford, with around 450 undergraduate and 200 graduate students in a roughly equal mix of men and women.  Its alumni include Ruth Deech, Danny Alexander, Helen Fielding, Simon Rattle, and Martha Kearney. Lincoln College (in full: The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford.  Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, then Bishop of Lincoln.  It is the ninth oldest of Oxford University's extant colleges.
Answer: 38