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Life Here. Alumni Home. It was created for women when universities refused them entry, and for people of diverse beliefs when the establishment religion was widely demanded. Now its female and male students represent the world and many Somervillians go on to change that world, too.
- Undergraduate
Somerville was founded to include the excluded. It was...
- Postgraduate
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- Funding Opportunities
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- Access & Outreach
Somerville's Access team hosts multiple school visits, open...
- The Development Programme
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- Studying at Somerville
People come to Oxford for many reasons. But above all, they...
- Undergraduate
42 years after the University of London and 28 years before Cambridge, Oxford finally allows women to take degrees. 300 Somervillians are retroactively qualified to graduate thanks to the foresight of Principal Emily Penrose.
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.
Somerville College was founded in 1879, one of the three Oxford women’s societies to open their doors to students in October of that year, along with Lady Margaret Hall and the Society of Home Students, later St Anne’s. Classes and teaching for women had expanded in Oxford during the 1870s.
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 , Philippa Foot , Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers .
From its inception in 1879, Somerville College, founded as one of the first two institutions at the University of Oxford to admit women, had been dedicated to inclusion, explicitly welcoming students from all social backgrounds, any kind of cultural and religious beliefs, and all nationalities.
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.
