Wadham College, Oxford

Wadham College
Oxford
Arms: Gules, a chevron between 3 roses argent barbed vert (Wadham); impaling Gules, a bend or between 2 escallops argent (Petre)[1]
Scarf colours: black, with two grey-blue stripes a quarter of a scarf-width in from either edge, each stripe edged with a yellow pinstripe on the right-hand side only
Location	Parks Road
Coordinates	51°45′21″N 1°15′17″W / 51.755871°N 1.254593°W / 51.755871; -1.254593
Full name	Warden, Fellows and Scholars of Wadham College of the Foundation of Nicholas Wadham Esquire and Dorothy His Wife in the University of Oxford
Latin name	Collegium Wadhami
Established	1610; 414 years ago (1610)
Named for	Dorothy (née Petre) and Nicholas Wadham
Sister college	Christ's College, Cambridge
Warden	Robert Hannigan
Undergraduates	471[2] (2022)
Postgraduates	217[2] (2022)
Website	wadham.ox.ac.uk
Boat club	Wadham College Boat Club
Map
Location in Oxford city centre

Wadham College (/ˈwɒdəm/) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford^[3] in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy Wadham, according to the will of her late husband Nicholas Wadham, a member of an ancient Devon and Somerset family.

The central buildings, a notable example of Jacobean architecture, were designed by the architect William Arnold and erected between 1610 and 1613. They include a large and ornate Hall. Adjacent to the central buildings are the Wadham Gardens. Wadham is one of the largest colleges of the University of Oxford, with about 480 undergraduates and 240 graduate students.^[2] The college publishes an annual magazine for alumni, the Wadham College Gazette.^[4] As of 2022, it had an estimated financial endowment of £113 million,^[5] and in the 2021-2022 academic year ranked 7th in the Norrington Table, a measure which ranks Oxford colleges by academic performance.^[6]

Amongst Wadham's most famous alumni is Sir Christopher Wren. Wren was one of a brilliant group of experimental scientists at Oxford in the 1650s, the Oxford Philosophical Club, which included Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke. This group held regular meetings at Wadham College under the guidance of the warden, John Wilkins, and the group formed the nucleus which went on to found the Royal Society.