John Snow College, Durham
| John Snow College | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Durham University | ||||||||||||||||||
College buildings at Mount Oswald | ||||||||||||||||||
Arms of John Snow College Arms: Argent a Cross formy quadrate azure, a chief azure thereon a Yorkshire rose argent between two lions rampant Or | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°45′46″N 1°35′07″W / 54.762723°N 1.585162°W | |||||||||||||||||
| Motto | Latin: Per scientiam et prudentiam quaere summam | |||||||||||||||||
| Motto in English | To seek the highest through knowledge and wisdom | |||||||||||||||||
| Established | 2001 | |||||||||||||||||
| Named for | John Snow | |||||||||||||||||
| Principal | Prof. Nathan Sempala-Ntege OBE | |||||||||||||||||
| Vice principal | Dr Ruth Wilson | |||||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 913 | |||||||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 23 | |||||||||||||||||
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John Snow College is a constituent college of Durham University. The college was founded in 2001 on the university's Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, before moving to Durham in 2018. The college takes its name from the nineteenth-century Yorkshire physician John Snow, one of the founders of modern epidemiology.
The college is a fully self-catered college of the university, and is relatively new in comparison to other existing Durham undergraduate colleges. Rooms in the college can be found in a mixture of flats and townhouses, with all rooms in flats being ensuite. The college also has extensive leisure facilities including a large dining and entertainment hall, a gym, a yoga and dance studio, a performance practice studio, and music rooms. It is now located on the Mount Oswald site, which opened in 2020.