Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels feature a number of fictional Oxford colleges:
- Foxe College - (based on Corpus Christi College); Richard Foxe founder of Corpus Christi College.
- Gabriel College - (based on Wadham College)
- Jordan College - (loosely based on Exeter College)
- St Michael's College
- St Sophia's College - (based on Lady Margaret Hall)
- Wykeham College - (based on New College); William of Wykeham founder of New College.
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