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The Alternative Prospectus is written and produced by current students for prospective applicants. The publication was awarded a HELOA Innovation and Best Practice Award in 2011. [23] The Univ Alternative Prospectus offers student written advice and guidance to potential Oxford applicants.
It has 528 undergraduate students, 385 graduate students and 37 visiting students as of December 2020, making it one of the largest colleges in either Oxford or Cambridge. [ 1 ] Designed by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen , the college was built in an egalitarian architectural style that maximises the number of rooms, for academically qualified ...
The first modern merger of colleges was in 2008, with Green College and Templeton College merging to form Green Templeton College. [4] The number of PPHs also reduced when Greyfriars closed in 2008 [ 5 ] and when St Benet's Hall closed in 2022. [ 6 ]
Despite being one of the smallest colleges of Oxford University, Harris Manchester boasts the sixth largest college library and offers the best student population to book ratio. [ citation needed ] It houses a collection of books and manuscripts dating back to the fifteenth century and is famous for its antiquarian books, tract collection, and ...
The rankings of each college in the Norrington Table are calculated by awarding 5 points for a student who receives a First Class degree, 3 points for a 2:1, 2 for a 2:2 and 1 for a Third; the total is then divided by the maximum possible score (i.e. the number of finalists in that college multiplied by 5), and the result for each college is expressed as a percentage, rounded to 2 decimal places.
Fictional colleges of the University of Oxford (3 P) People associated with the University of Oxford by college (46 C) Alumni of the University of Oxford (6 C, 3,546 P)
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. [2] Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979. [ 3 ] Its founder, Sir Thomas White , intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary .
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford [3] in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher , Indira Gandhi , Dorothy Hodgkin , Iris Murdoch , Philippa Foot , Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers .