St John's College, Oxford

St John's College
St John's College
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)
Postgraduates	244 (2022)
Website	www.sjc.ox.ac.uk
JCR	www-jcr.sjc.ox.ac.uk
MCR	mcr.sjc.ox.ac.uk
Boat club	SJCBC
Map
	Location in Oxford city centre

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]

^ ^a ^b "St John's College, University of Oxford". 28 June 2023.
^ "St John's College | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
^ Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist
^ "Saint John Baptist College in the University of Oxford : Annual Report and Financial Statements : Year ended 31 July 2022" (PDF). ox.ac.uk. p. 6. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b "About Us". St John's College Oxford. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
^ St John's College, Oxford (31 October 2012). "Report and Financial Statements" (PDF). p. 21. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
^ Ashworth, James (20 August 2018). "St John's tops the 2018 Norrington Table". Oxfordstudent.com. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
^ "Special Report: Merton tops 2021 Norrington Table but rankings show link between college wealth and academic performance". Cherwell. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

[ox.ac.uk-1] "St John's College, University of Oxford". 28 June 2023.

[2] "St John's College | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2022.

[:1-3] Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist

[stjohns1718-4] "Saint John Baptist College in the University of Oxford : Annual Report and Financial Statements : Year ended 31 July 2022" (PDF). ox.ac.uk. p. 6. Retrieved 12 April 2021.

[official-about-5] "About Us". St John's College Oxford. Retrieved 14 October 2012.

[2012finances-6] St John's College, Oxford (31 October 2012). "Report and Financial Statements" (PDF). p. 21. Retrieved 25 June 2013.

[7] Ashworth, James (20 August 2018). "St John's tops the 2018 Norrington Table". Oxfordstudent.com. Retrieved 27 April 2019.

[8] "Special Report: Merton tops 2021 Norrington Table but rankings show link between college wealth and academic performance". Cherwell. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

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