Harris Manchester College, Oxford

Harris Manchester College (HMC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded in Warrington in 1757 as a college for Unitarian students and moved to Oxford in 1893. It became a full college of the university in 1996, taking its current name to commemorate its predecessor the Manchester Academy and a benefaction by Lord Harris of Peckham.

Harris Manchester College

Mansfield Road (map)

51°45′21″N 1°15′07″W / 51.755758°N 1.252044°W / 51.755758; -1.252044

Manchester Academy and Harris College

Collegium de Harris et Manchester

HMC

Veritas Libertas Pietas (Latin)

Truth, Freedom, Piety

1786 (1786)

Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham

Warrington Academy, Manchester Academy and Manchester College

Thomas Worthington

Homerton College, Cambridge

Professor Jane Shaw^[1]

113^[2] (2020)

178 (2020)

Professor Lesley Smith^[3]

£14.1 million (2018)^[4]

www.hmc.ox.ac.uk

hmcjcr.co.uk

The college's postgraduate and undergraduate places are exclusively for students aged 21 years or over. With around 100 undergraduates and 150 postgraduates, Harris Manchester is the smallest undergraduate college in either of the Oxbridge universities.