Selwyn College, Cambridge

Selwyn College
University of Cambridge
Selwyn College's Old Court
Arms of Selwyn College
Scarf colours: maroon, with three narrow gold stripes through the middle, the central stripe slightly narrower than others
LocationGrange Road (map)
Full nameSelwyn College in the University of Cambridge
AbbreviationSE[1]
MottoΑνδρίζεσθε
Motto in English"Quit ye like men"
Established1882 (1882)
Named afterGeorge Selwyn
Sister collegesKeble College, Oxford
Benjamin Franklin College, Yale
MasterRoger Mosey
Undergraduates443 (2022-23)
Postgraduates307 (2022-23)
Endowment£67.8M (2022)[2]
Websitewww.sel.cam.ac.uk
JCRselwynjcr.org
MCRwww-mcr.sel.cam.ac.uk
Boat clubwww.selwynrowing.org.uk
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Selwyn College, Cambridge is located in Cambridge
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Location in Cambridge

Selwyn College, Cambridge (formally Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1882 by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of George Augustus Selwyn (1809–1878), the first Bishop of New Zealand (1841–1868), and subsequently Bishop of Lichfield (1868–1878). Its main buildings consist of three courts built of stone and brick (Old Court, Ann's Court, and Cripps Court). There are several secondary buildings, including adjacent townhouses and lodges serving as student hostels on Grange Road, West Road and Sidgwick Avenue. The college has some 60 fellows and 110 non-academic staff.

In 2019, Selwyn was ranked eighth on the Tompkins Table of Cambridge colleges in order of undergraduates' performances in examinations,[3] having been first in 2008.[4] The college was ranked 16th out of 30 in an assessment of college wealth conducted by the student newspaper Varsity in November 2006.[5] Selwyn's sister college at the University of Oxford is Keble College.

  1. ^ University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Selwyn College Annual Report 2022–23 (Bursar's Report pp. 4–7)" (PDF). sel.cam.ac.uk. 9 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Exclusive: Christ's triumphant in 2019 Tompkins Table". Varsity Online.
  4. ^ Garner, Richard (28 July 2008). "'Poorer' college tops Cambridge degree table". The Independent. Retrieved 31 July 2008.
  5. ^ Varsity issue 647, page 6. (PDF). Retrieved 22 December 2013.