Come to Somerville and learn to change the world 🌍 Breaking down barriers to learning since 1879 👩🎓 One of the first University Colleges of Sanctuary 🧡 Home to the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development. Somerville was one of the first women's colleges at Oxford and is now a mixed-sex college with over 400 undergraduates and 220 graduate students. Famous alumni include Margaret Thatcher, Dorothy Hodgkin, Indira Gandhi and Vera Brittain. Our current Principal is Jan Royall.