Colleges & wider student experience : Explore the colleges

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College	Year founded	Total no. of students	No. of students living in College (UG and PG)	No. of 1st year UG rooms	No. of en-suite 1st year UG rooms	No. of shared 1st year UG rooms	C = Catered S = Self Catered	Gowned formal dinners ****	Chapel/Multifaith room
Collingwood College	1972	1563	555	461	194	16	C	N	N
Grey College	1959	1200	466	360	87	19	C	Y	Y
Hatfield College	1846	1300	422	332	91	66	C	Y	Y
John Snow College	2001	1001	358	344	344	0	S	Y	N
Josephine Butler College	2006	1300	553	411	411	0	S	Y	Y
St Aidan's College	1947	1250	397	300	43	51	C	N	Y
St Chad's College	1904	559	279	85	54*	45**	C	Y	Y
St Cuthbert's Society	1888	1301	470	390	106	32	C S	N	N
College of St Hild & St Bede	1839	1410	459	372	0	0	C	N	Y
St John's College	1909	530	233	150	15	18	C	Y	Y
St Mary's College	1899	929	314	230	29	0	C	Y	Y
Stephenson College	2001	900	433	315	155	0	S	N	N
Trevelyan College	1966	950	320	235	0	20	C	Y	Y
University College (Castle)	1832	1100	538	337	132	30	C S	Y	Y
Van Mildert College	1965	1403	524	407	22	0	C	N	N
South College (opening 2020) ***	2020	TBC	492	TBC	TBC	0	S	N	Y

* Figure includes shared ensuite and standard rooms.

** Figure includes single and twin ensuite rooms.

*** South College opens in 2020 with a reduced no. of students with the intention of growing by 2022 to 1200 students.

Our interactive map can be viewed here.

College	Year founded	Total no. of students	Total no. of students living in College* (PG and UG)	Total no. of PG rooms	Total no. of en-suite PG rooms	C = Catered S = Self Catered	Gowned formal dinners**	Chapel/Multifaith room
Collingwood College	1972	1563	555	32	0	C	N	N
Grey College	1959	1200	466	51	0	C S	Y	Y
Hatfield College	1846	1300	422	42	0	S	Y	Y
John Snow College	2001	1001	358	70	70	S	Y	N
Josephine Butler College	2006	1300	553	30	30	S	Y	Y
St Aidan's College	1947	1250	397	56	50	C	N	Y
St Chad's College	1904	559	279	45	30	C S	Y	Y
St Cuthbert's Society	1888	1301	470	40	40	S	N	N
College of St Hild & St Bede	1839	1410	459	43	0	C	N	N
St John's College	1909	530	259	24	0	C	Y	Y
St Mary's College	1899	929	314	19	10	C	Y	Y
Stephenson College	2001	900	431	60	60	S	N	N
Trevelyan College	1966	866	320	44	27	C	Y	Y
University College (Castle)	1832	1100	538	115	115	S	Y	Y
Van Mildert College	1965	1403	524	72	72	C	N	N
Ustinov College (PG only)	1965	1300	412	398	398	S	N	N
South College (opening 2020) ***	2020	2020	492	TBC	TBC	S	N	Y

*Student figures and room numbers provided are for the 2018/19 academic year and are subject to change.

**All colleges have special dinner events called 'formals' some colleges wear academic gowns at these events.

**South College opens in 2020 with a reduced number of students with the intention of growing by 2022 to 1200 students.

Our interactive map can be viewed here.

Durham currently has 16 colleges and a new 17th college is being built to welcome new students arriving in 2020.

New college developments

To help achieve our University Strategy, 2017-2027 goal that 50% of our students will live in college accommodation, our new 17^th College will open in 2020, along with a new home for John Snow College (Illustration of the new site pictured above).

The colleges will between them have 1000 student beds on a high-quality purpose-built site, and each college will have its own unique look and feel with its own common room, support offices and café bar. The site both Colleges will occupy, close to the main University Campus and other Colleges, will also have a Hub with an events hall and a Multi-Use Games Area and benefit from good public transport links to other Departments and Durham City centre.

For 2018/19, John Snow College and Stephenson College are based on the Howlands site, where Stephenson College will remain for 2019/20 and onwards.

For 2019/20, John Snow College will be based at Rushford Court.