St Cross College

St Cross coat of arms

The courtyard

The St Cross College is a college of the University of Oxford in Oxford in the UK .

Although it was founded in 1965, making it one of the youngest colleges, it is centrally located and in neo-Gothic buildings on St Giles. The college has an additional student housing complex on St Cross Road. The college was also located on this site until 1981, before moving to the Pusey House building on St Giles.

With around 300 students, St Cross is one of the smaller colleges in Oxford. The college only admits graduates. Around two thirds of the students are from outside the UK. This is also reflected in the college's motto: “Ad quattuor cardines mundi”. In the sporting area there are close ties to Wolfson College , with which St Cross sets up numerous joint teams. In contrast to other colleges, St Cross only offers meals in its own dining room for lunch, and dinner is also served once a week. The college holds a ball every summer.

Well-known students

• Aharon Appelfeld , Israeli writer
• Tilman Brück , German professor for development economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and former head of department at DIW
• Yusuf Çetin , Turkish Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Istanbul and Ankara
• Roger Collins , British historian
• Tim Foster , British rower and Olympic champion
• R. Joseph Hoffmann , American historian
• Hermione Lee , English author , biographer , critic and literary scholar
• John Kingman , British mathematician
• Muhammad V , Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia
• Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu , Romanian politician , historian and diplomat
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn , French Minister of Economics and Finance and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Graham Wiggins , American musician and composer

master

• William van Heyningen , 1966–1979
• Godfrey H. Stafford , 1979-1987
• Richard C. Repp , 1987-2003
• Andrew S. Goudie , 2003-2011
• Mark Jones , 2011-2016
• Carole Souter , since 2016

Web links

• Official website (English)

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 23 "  N , 1 ° 15 ′ 37"  W.