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New College Durham. / 54.796; -1.595. New College Durham is a further and higher education college and a sixth form college in County Durham, England. It was founded in 1977 as a result of a merger between Neville's Cross College of Education and Durham Technical College. It holds foundation degree awarding powers.
Durham College. / 54.772314; -1.576700. New College, Durham, or Durham College, was a university institution set up by Oliver Cromwell, to provide an alternative to (and break the effective monopoly of) the older University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. It also had the aim of bringing university education to Northern England.
Durham University has 17 colleges, of which University College is the oldest, founded in 1832. The newest college is South, founded in 2020. The last single-sex college, St Mary's, became mixed in 2005 with the admittance of male undergraduates. One college, Ustinov, admits only postgraduates .
In October 2006, Josephine Butler College opened its doors to students as Durham's newest college – the first purpose-built self-catering college for students within Durham. This was the first new college to open in Durham itself since the creation of Collingwood in the 1970s.
East Durham College. New College Durham is the city's largest college of further education. It was founded in 1977 as a result of a merger between Neville's Cross College of Education and Durham Technical College. The college operated on two main sites near the city of Durham: Neville's Cross and Framwellgate Moor. The site at Framwellgate Moor ...
1986 (10th Session) University College, informally known as Castle, is the oldest constituent college of the University of Durham in England. Centred on Durham Castle on Palace Green, it was founded in 1832 by William van Mildert, Bishop of Durham. As a constituent college of Durham University, it is listed as a higher education institution ...
Van Mildert College (known colloquially as Mildert) is a college of Durham University in England. Founded in 1965, [5] it takes its name from William Van Mildert , Prince-Bishop of Durham from 1826 to 1836 and a leading figure in the University's 1832 foundation.
South College, Durham. / 54.762; -1.583. South College is a constituent college of Durham University, which accepted its first students in Autumn of 2020. [2] It is located in Mount Oswald on Elvet Hill, to the south of Durham City, adjoining Van Mildert College and John Snow College. [3]