St Anne’s

At St Anne’s we are committed to academic opportunity and academic excellence. We are an open, modern and integrated college, one of the largest in Oxford: a community of researchers and teachers, graduates and undergraduates centred around our library. Our students are from a wide range of backgrounds – from state, private and international schools and colleges – and their welfare is important to us. Our tutors and staff are known for being approachable and supportive.

The college was founded to advance educational emancipation, and it still does. It admits those candidates, regardless of background, who display the highest academic potential and imagination along with enthusiasm for their subject. St Anne’s rewards outstanding academic work, gives generous grants for research and travel, and offers exceptional chances for study in Japan and work-experience in Europe and the USA.

The college occupies a spacious site, its buildings grouped around gardens. It is slightly north of the city centre – perhaps five minutes by bicycle – just by the University Parks, close to the Science Area, Ashmolean Museum, Modern Languages and Classics departments and Mathematical and Oriental institutes, as well as the new humanities site.

St Anne’s offers single study-bedrooms to all who wish to live in. All student rooms are on the college site and have computer network points with internet access. Nearly half our rooms are ensuite, and some rooms are specially designed for disabled access.

St Anne’s is renowned for the quality of its food. Most meals are relaxed self-service affairs on a pay-as-you-go basis, alongside popular ‘formal guest’ nights when students can bring friends. The college coffee shop is extremely popular with students and staff alike and there are also self-catering kitchenettes close to all rooms.

We have one of the two largest undergraduate libraries in Oxford, with 110,000 volumes on shelf for current use and a dedicated law library. With its 24-hour opening and responsiveness to students’ needs, it is a valuable and popular resource. Terminals give access to the University’s online catalogue and other databases. The computer room supplements the college network with a range of useful software and networked printers.

Our lecture theatres are superb venues for teaching, drama, film and chamber music. The JCR has a lively bar, games rooms, multi-gym, dark room and music practice rooms. The college shares a modern boathouse with St Hugh’s and Wadham and a nearby sports ground with St John’s.

We have numerous events and activities: weekly music recitals and film screenings, guest speakers from public life, and a swing band and joint orchestra with St John’s. Twice a term there are Subject-Family seminars, when members of college gather to listen to papers given by Fellows and students, followed by an informal dinner. The active JCR organises everything from a creative writing group to karaoke. The college nurtures serious teams, notably in football and its rowing eights, but there is also the full range of sporting pursuits for those after sheer fun.