► Colleges

COLLEGES HOME:

Roehampton's parkland campus includes four Colleges, each of which has its own unique personality with a real community spirit. Each College is responsible for its own accommodation, conferencing and other social activities. They also provide students with pastoral support and work closely with the Students' Union College reps who organise an extensive range of social opportunities.

DIGBY STUART:
Digby Stuart College is a Roman Catholic foundation, first established in 1874 as a women's teacher training college by the Society of the Sacred Heart, an order of French religious women who settled at Roehampton in 1850 having first arrived in England in 1846.

• As part of a modern, exciting and very successful University, the College continues its commitment. 
• to foster the personal, professional, spiritual and intellectual development of those who live and work here.

• to support the University to create a community that is hospitable to diversity and to promote mutual respect among people from diverse academic disciplines, religious traditions, cultures and backgrounds.

• to provide a supportive academic environment that encourages the development of critical reflection and greater understanding of the world through the free exchange of ideas.

• to preserve its distinct Catholic identity and to encourage the ethical and spiritual ideals of a Catholic community.
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FROEBEL:

Froebel is home to the School of Education, and is renowned for its teacher education, and is one of Britain’s major centres for Initial Teacher Training.

Highly rated fields of study based on the Froebel campus include Early Childhood Studies, Art and Dance. The College also hosts a number of national and international research centres.

It was founded in 1892, by a group committed to the then radical philosophies of Friedrich Froebel.

SOUTHLANDS:

Southlands College is home to a diverse community of staff and students and provides a place where they can learn, teach, study, work, live and socialize. It houses the University’s School of Business and Social Sciences together with the Music section of the School of Arts and other staff from the Schools of Arts and Education.  There are just under 300 resident and well over 1,000 non-resident students.

Southlands was founded by the MethodistChurch in 1872. In keeping with its Methodist ethos, the College seeks to provide an open, valuing, challenging and learning community for all its members.

In addition to student residences our modern campus, which was opened in 1997, provides teaching and conference facilities, catering and social areas and the College Chapel.

People from all over the UK and other parts of the world, from different cultures and of any faith or no faith are welcome as members of the SouthlandsCollege community.

WHITELANDS:

Whitelands College, overlooking RichmondPark is a place where students can meet and mingle with people from all backgrounds. 

We are home to the Human and Life Sciences school and offer state-of-the-art lecture spaces, seminar rooms and laboratories, social facilities and new self-catering en-suite study bedrooms for resident students.

At Whitelands you're sure to enjoy being part of a balanced and active student community.