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Discover. Undergraduate. Life Here. 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.
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 .
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.
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'.
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.
Have a look around Oxford University's Somerville College with this interactive 360° virtual tour.
A Short Introduction to Somerville College, Oxford. Conveniently nestled between the popular streets of Jericho and the open spaces of the University Parks sits Somerville College. Somerville College is home to around 650 students, of whom around a third are international.
