Nuffield College, Oxford
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| University | Oxford |
| Location | New Road and Worcester Street |
| Coordinates | 51°45′10″N 1°15′47″W / 51.752834°N 1.262917°W |
| Established | 1937 |
| Named for | William Morris, Lord Nuffield |
| Sister college | None |
| Warden | Sir Andrew Dilnot |
| Undergraduates | None |
| Postgraduates | 74 |
| Website | College website |
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 Location in Oxford city centre
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Nuffield College /ˈnʌfiːld/ is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is a graduate college and specialises in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology. It is one of the newest colleges, having been founded in 1937, and one of the smallest with around 75 postgraduate students and 60 academic fellows. Its architecture is designed to conform to the traditional college layout and its modernist spire is a landmark for those approaching Oxford from the west.
As of 2006, the college had an estimated financial endowment of £146m. This makes it the fourth richest Oxford college by assets.
Nuffield College was founded in 1937 after a donation to the University by the industrialist and the founder of Morris Motors, Lord Nuffield. On 16 November 1937 the university entered a Deed of Covenant and Trust with Lord Nuffield. He donated land for the college on New Road, to the west of the city centre near the mound of Oxford Castle, on the site of the largely disused basin of the Oxford Canal. As well as the land, Nuffield gave £900,000 to build the college and to provide it with an endowment fund. For the creation of Nuffield College and for his other donations he was described in 1949 by an editorial in The Times as "the greatest benefactor of the University since the Middle Ages".
From its inception, Nuffield College initiated a number of trends at both Oxford and Cambridge. It was the first college to have both women and men housed together. It was also the first college to consist solely of graduate students. In addition, it was the first in modern times to have a defined subject focus, namely, the social sciences.
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