Malala Yousafzai graduates from Oxford eight years after Taliban shot her

Nobel Prize winner Malala angered the extremist group after campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan

Malala Yousafzai studied the prestigious degree of Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University. AFP

Eight years after being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai has graduated from the most prestigious course on offer at Oxford University.

The Nobel Prize winner and activist, 22, shared images on Twitter of herself smiling, covered in celebratory cake and confetti.

“Hard to express my joy and gratitude right now as I completed my philosophy, politics and economics degree at Oxford,” she wrote.

“I don’t know what’s ahead. For now, it will be Netflix, reading and sleep.”

Philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford is renowned for developing political leaders including former UK prime minister David Cameron and Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto and Imran Khan.

Ms Yousafzai first rose to prominence at the age of 11 after blogging about life under the Taliban, but after angering the extremist group for speaking out she was shot and nearly died in October 2012.

Ms Yousafzai was flown to Britain for medical treatment and settled in the city of Birmingham.

She was at school there when she heard in 2014 that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".

The youngest ever Nobel laureate at the time, she has continued to speak out for girls' education.