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Somerville College Oxford. We empower bright students from every background to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Our aim is to provide space to think, a place to belong and the chance to become exceptional. Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford [3] 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, Philippa Foot, Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers.
Somerville is a warm, forward-looking and inclusive college with a streak of radicalism at its heart. Founded in 1879 to give women access to university education when many others wouldn’t, famous alumni include two former prime ministers, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize for science and pioneers in literature and activism.
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Somerville College Oxford. Somerville was founded in 1879 to give women, at that time excluded from membership of the University, the chance to benefit from an Oxford education. Today the...
This is the list of Undergraduate courses offered at Somerville. To view the complete range of Postgraduate courses we offer, please visit 'Study Here - Postgraduate'.
About the college. Somerville has a diverse and lively graduate community, reading for a wide variety of disciplines. The college provides a friendly environment for its students to meet and swap ideas with like-minded academics and where they can benefit from Oxford's world-class graduate training. A relaxed and friendly college, Somerville is ...
Somerville is a College for all. It was founded in 1879 to provide an opportunity for women, who at that time were still excluded from membership of the University, to benefit from higher education in Oxford.
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Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall. Some of its alumnae include Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Iris Murdoch, and Vera Brittain.