St Edmund Hall, Oxford
| St Edmund Hall | ||||||||||||
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| University of Oxford | ||||||||||||
St Edmund Hall Front Quad 2018 | ||||||||||||
Arms: Or, a cross patonce gules cantoned by four Cornish choughs proper | ||||||||||||
| Location | The High / Queen's Lane | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°45′11″N 1°15′00″W / 51.753°N 1.25°W | |||||||||||
| Full name | The Principal, Fellows and Scholars of Saint Edmund Hall in the University of Oxford | |||||||||||
| Latin name | Aula Sancti Edmundi | |||||||||||
| Established | c. 1278 | |||||||||||
| Named for | Edmund of Abingdon | |||||||||||
| Sister college | Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge | |||||||||||
| Principal | Kathy Willis | |||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 376 | |||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 315 | |||||||||||
| Endowment | £68.2 million (2020) | |||||||||||
| Website | www | |||||||||||
| JCR | jcr | |||||||||||
| MCR | mcr | |||||||||||
| Boat club | sehbc | |||||||||||
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St Edmund Hall (also known as The Hall and Teddy Hall) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. The college claims to be "the oldest surviving academic society to house and educate undergraduates in any university" and was the last surviving medieval academic hall at the university.
The college is on Queen's Lane and the High Street, in central Oxford. After more than seven centuries as a men-only college, it became coeducational in 1979. As of 2020, the college had a financial endowment of £68.2 million.
Notable alumni of St Edmund Hall include current British prime minister Keir Starmer, diplomats Robert Macaire and Mark Sedwill, politicians Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow and Mel Stride, as well as journalists Samira Ahmed (1986, English) and Anna Botting (1986, Geography). Honorary Fellows include the structural engineer Faith Wainwright (1980, Engineering) and the lawyer Elizabeth Hollingworth (1984, BCL).
In 2019, St Edmund Hall launched its 10-year strategy to improve access to higher education, increase the number of student scholarships, bursaries and academic fellowships at the Hall and improve its estate facilities and sustainability credentials. This was followed by the launch of HALLmarks, a £50 million campaign in 2022 to fundraise for a new student accommodation building at Norham Gardens in North Oxford as well as student support and fellowship endowment projects.