page_title: Commoner (academia)
section_title: Oxford
hierarchical_section_title: Commoner (academia) / Oxford
caption_attribution_description: English: Oxford Gentleman Commoner. From Shrimpton's Series of the Costumes of the Members of the University of Oxford (1885)
context_page_description: A commoner is a student at certain universities in the British Isles who historically pays for their own tuition and commons, typically contrasted with scholars and exhibitioners, who were given financial emoluments towards their fees.
context_section_description: In the University of Oxford, a commoner is a student without a scholarship or exhibition.
  A gentleman‑commoner at the University of Oxford, equivalent to Cambridge's fellow‑commoner, was historically a rank of student above commoners but below noblemen. According to Merriam-Webster, the first known usage of "gentleman‑commoner" was in 1687.
caption: Oxford Gentleman Commoner. From Shrimpton's Series of the Costumes of the Members of the University of Oxford (1885)
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