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 | |||||||||||
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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]