St John's College, Oxford

St John's College
University of Oxford
Canterbury Quad
Arms: of St John's College, Oxford (arms of Sir Thomas White): Gules, an annulet in chief or on a canton ermine a lion rampant sable a bordure of the fourth charged with eight estoiles of the second
LocationSt Giles, Oxford OX1 3JP, UK
Coordinates51°45′22″N 1°15′31″W / 51.75612°N 1.258605°W / 51.75612; -1.258605
Full nameSaint John Baptist College
Latin nameCollegium Sancti Johannis Baptistae
FounderSir Thomas White
Established1555; 469 years ago (1555)
Named forJohn the Baptist
Sister collegeSidney Sussex College, Cambridge
PresidentSue Black
Undergraduates419 (2022)[1]
Postgraduates244 (2022)[1]
Websitewww.sjc.ox.ac.uk
JCRwww-jcr.sjc.ox.ac.uk
MCRmcr.sjc.ox.ac.uk
Boat clubSJCBC
Map
St John's College, Oxford is located in Oxford city centre
St John's College, Oxford
Location in Oxford city centre

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.

St John's is the wealthiest college in Oxford, with assets worth over of £790 million as of 2022, largely due to nineteenth-century suburban development of land in the city of Oxford of which it is the ground landlord.[4]

The college occupies a site on St Giles' and has a student body of some 390 undergraduates and 250 postgraduates.[5] There are over 100 academic staff,[5] and a like number of other staff.[6] In 2018 St John's topped the Norrington Table, the annual ranking of Oxford colleges' final results, and in 2021, St John's ranked second with a score of 79.8.[7][8]

  1. ^ a b "St John's College, University of Oxford". 28 June 2023.
  2. ^ "St John's College | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  3. ^ Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist
  4. ^ "Saint John Baptist College in the University of Oxford : Annual Report and Financial Statements : Year ended 31 July 2022" (PDF). ox.ac.uk. p. 6. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  5. ^ a b "About Us". St John's College Oxford. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  6. ^ St John's College, Oxford (31 October 2012). "Report and Financial Statements" (PDF). p. 21. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
  7. ^ Ashworth, James (20 August 2018). "St John's tops the 2018 Norrington Table". Oxfordstudent.com. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Special Report: Merton tops 2021 Norrington Table but rankings show link between college wealth and academic performance". Cherwell. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.