| Balliol College | ||||||||||||||||||
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| University of Oxford | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Arms: Azure, a lion rampant argent, crowned or, impaling Gules, an orle argent[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BJ | |||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°45′17″N 1°15′28″W / 51.7547°N 1.2578°W | |||||||||||||||||
| Full name | The Master and Scholars of Balliol College in the University of Oxford | |||||||||||||||||
| Latin name | Collegium Balliolensis | |||||||||||||||||
| Established | 1263 | |||||||||||||||||
| Named for | John I de Balliol | |||||||||||||||||
| Sister college | St John's College, Cambridge | |||||||||||||||||
| Master | Dame Helen Ghosh | |||||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | c.395 (2023)[2] | |||||||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | c.405 (2023)[2] | |||||||||||||||||
| Endowment | £146m (2023)[3] | |||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | |||||||||||||||||
| Boat club | Balliol College Boat Club | |||||||||||||||||
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  Location in Oxford city centre | ||||||||||||||||||
Balliol College (/ˈbeɪliəl/)[4] is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.[5] Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol,[6] it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world.[7]
With a governing body of a master and around 80 fellows, the college's main buildings are located on Broad Street with additional buildings to the east in Jowett Walk and Holywell Manor.[8] As one of the larger colleges of Oxford University, Balliol typically has around 400 of both undergraduates and graduates. The college pioneered the PPE degree in the 1920s.[9]
Balliol has notable alumni from a wide range of disciplines. These include 13 Nobel Prize winners and four British prime ministers.[10][11]
- ^ "Balliol Archives - College Arms". Ox.ac.uk.
- ^ a b "Student numbers". University of Oxford. 1 December 2023. Archived from the original on 15 July 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ "Balliol College : Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 July 2023" (PDF). Balliol College. p. 26. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Colleges - University of Oxford". Ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "Balliol College | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- ^ Sir Charles Edward Mallet (1968). A History of the University of Oxford: The mediaeval university and the colleges founded in the Middle Ages. Barnes & Noble. p. 83.
- ^ "History". Balliol College, University of Oxford.
- ^ "About Balliol". Balliol College. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ Beckett, Andy (23 February 2017). "PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ "Balliol College: The 750th Anniversary and Beyond" (PDF).
- ^ "Award winners | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk.