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Somerville College
Somerville College Hall
Somerville College Hall
Somerville College Oxford Coat Of Arms (Motto).svg
Blazon: Argent, three mullets in chevron reversed gules, between six crosses crosslet fitched sable.
University Oxford
Location Woodstock Road, Oxford
Coordinates 51°45′33″N 1°15′44″W / 51.759044°N 1.262272°W / 51.759044; -1.262272
Full name Somerville College in the University of Oxford
Latin name Collegium de Somerville
Motto Donec rursus impleat orbem
(translated: Until it should fill the world again)
Established 1879; 145 years ago (1879)
Named for Mary Somerville
Previous names Somerville Hall (1879–1894)
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Sister college Girton College, Cambridge
Principal Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
Undergraduates 437 (2020–21)
Postgraduates 235
Boat club Somerville College Boat Club
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Somerville College, Oxford is located in Oxford city centre
Somerville College, Oxford
Location in Oxford city centre

Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Iris Murdoch, Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers. It began admitting men in 1994. Its library is one of Oxford's largest college libraries. The college's liberal tone leads back to its founding by social liberals, as Oxford's first non-denominational college for women, unlike the Anglican Lady Margaret Hall, the other to open that year. In 1964, it was among the first to cease locking up at night to stop students staying out late. No gowns are worn at Formal Halls. In 2021 it was recognised as a sanctuary campus by City of Sanctuary UK. It is one of three colleges to offer undergraduates on-site lodging throughout their course. It stands near the Science Area, University Parks, Oxford University Press, Jericho and Green Templeton, St Anne's, Keble and St Benet's. Over a third of its 650 students are not from the UK. Over half the UK admissions are from state schools – close to the university average. Its total net assets in 2018 were £225 million, the seventh highest of an Oxford undergraduate college. Its sister college at Cambridge is Girton.

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