Question

what's the differences between oxford and cambridge?

Answer 1

In terms of what?

-Different cities
Oxford has a uniformity of building material, as a large proportion of the buildings are in the local sandstone. (Gorgeous architecture. I personally love the honey-coloured buildings.)
Cambridge, on the other hand, has little local stone, so the building material has been brought in from many different sources, resulting in a greater variety of character.
The river is a more prominent feature in Cambridge, flowing through the city centre rather than around it as it does at Oxford. (Some think Cambridge is prettier because of this.)
Oxford is bigger, busier, and livelier.
Oxford is a city with a university attached, Cambridge is a university with a city attached.
The college of Cambridge are far more spread out than the colleges of Oxford.

-Different universities
There is a somewhat common impression that Oxford is stronger in politics and the humanities, while Cambridge is stronger in the sciences and engineering. (Oxford has produced more Prime Ministers and Cambridge more Nobel Laureates.)
They have different courses, eg. Natural Sciences in Cambridge, separate sciences in Oxford, PPE in Oxford but not Cambridge etc.
Different traditions, eg. Oxford requires us to wear sub fusc for exams, which is not the case in Cambridge
Different teaching, tutorials vs supervisions
The admission process is quite different. Cambridge requires UMS marks, for example.

-A bit of history:
The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the second-oldest surviving university in the world, with evidence of teaching as far back as 1096.
After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge, where they established what became the University of Cambridge.