| St John's College | ||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||
| Location | St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JP, UK | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°45′22″N 1°15′31″W / 51.75612°N 1.258605°W | |||||||||||
| Full name | Saint John Baptist College | |||||||||||
| Latin name | Collegium Sancti Johannis Baptistae | |||||||||||
| Founder | Sir Thomas White | |||||||||||
| Established | 1555 | |||||||||||
| Named for | John the Baptist | |||||||||||
| Sister college | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge | |||||||||||
| President | Sue Black | |||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 419 (2022)[1] | |||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 244 (2022)[1] | |||||||||||
| Website | www | |||||||||||
| JCR | www-jcr | |||||||||||
| MCR | mcr | |||||||||||
| Boat club | SJCBC | |||||||||||
| Map | ||||||||||||
  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]
- ^ a b "St John's College, University of Oxford". 28 June 2023.
- ^ "St John's College | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- ^ Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b "About Us". St John's College Oxford. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
- ^ St John's College, Oxford (31 October 2012). "Report and Financial Statements" (PDF). p. 21. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
- ^ Ashworth, James (20 August 2018). "St John's tops the 2018 Norrington Table". Oxfordstudent.com. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ "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.