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| Collingwood College | |||||||||||
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| Durham University | |||||||||||
 Collingwood College | |||||||||||
 Arms of Collingwood College Arms: Argent a Chevron between three Stags' Heads erased Sable a Bordure Gules charged with eight Crosses of St Cuthbert of the field And for the Crest On a Wreath Argent Gules and Sable issuant from the top of a Tower triple towered Or a Holly Tree fructed proper Mantled Sable doubled Argent | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°45′46″N 1°34′34″W / 54.762778°N 1.576111°W | ||||||||||
| Motto | French: Aime le meilleur | ||||||||||
| Motto in English | Love the best | ||||||||||
| Established | 1972 | ||||||||||
| Named for | Sir Edward Collingwood | ||||||||||
| Principal | Joe Elliott[1] | ||||||||||
| Vice principal | Emma Brownlow | ||||||||||
| Undergraduates | ~1050 | ||||||||||
| Postgraduates | ~60 | ||||||||||
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  Location in Durham, England | |||||||||||
Collingwood College is one of the constituent colleges of Durham University. Founded in 1972, it was the first Durham college that was purposely mixed-sex. It has over 1500 undergraduate students and just under 290 graduate students as of the year 2023/24, making it the largest college in Durham.[2][3][4]
The college is the first to break off centuries of Durham traditions, as it is the first college to never police corridors and to never make the use of gown compulsory. The college also developed a reputation for its unrivalled supremacy in sports, having won the intercollegiate sports trophy for 11 years in a row.[5][6]
The college was named after the mathematician Sir Edward Collingwood (1900–1970), who was a former Chair of the Council of Durham University.
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