John Snow College | ||||||||||||||||||
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Durham University | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 54°45′46″N 1°35′07″W / 54.762723°N 1.585162°W | |||||||||||||||||
Motto | Latin: Per scientiam et prudentiam quaere summam | |||||||||||||||||
Motto in English | To seek the highest through knowledge and wisdom | |||||||||||||||||
Established | 2001 | |||||||||||||||||
Named for | John Snow | |||||||||||||||||
Principal | Prof. Nathan Sempala-Ntege OBE | |||||||||||||||||
Vice principal | Dr Ruth Wilson | |||||||||||||||||
Undergraduates | 913 | |||||||||||||||||
Postgraduates | 23 | |||||||||||||||||
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John Snow College is a constituent college of Durham University.[1] The college was founded in 2001 on the university's Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, before moving to Durham in 2018. The college takes its name from the nineteenth-century Yorkshire physician John Snow, one of the founders of modern epidemiology.[2]
The college is a fully self-catered college of the university, and is relatively new in comparison to other existing Durham undergraduate colleges.[1] Rooms in the college can be found in a mixture of flats and townhouses, with all rooms in flats being ensuite.[3] The college also has extensive leisure facilities including a large dining and entertainment hall, a gym, a yoga and dance studio, a performance practice studio, and music rooms.[4] It is now located on the Mount Oswald site, which opened in 2020.[5]