We’re delighted to that you’re interested in becoming a student at St Chad’s College.

Your years at University are an important part of your education and your development. At St Chad’s, as well as having access to a world class higher education and all kinds of opportunities to learn outside your formal academic studies, we hope you’ll find a home away from home and form friendships that will last you a lifetime.

Here are just some of the things that our students tell us they love about Chad’s…

A Principal’s Perspective

St Chad’s is a confident, friendly, forward-looking college – a confidence we’ve developed in the course of nearly 120 years’ experience.

We place a great emphasis on academic excellence, and we’re proud of how well our students do as they continue to achieve outstanding results year after year.

And yet achieving the highest grades is not what’s most important about Chad’s.  We try to combine academic excellence with a concern for other things that matter: much of our academic work and our work outside the College has a focus on justice; and within the college we try to ensure that a real sense of fairness, openness and inclusion governs all of our policies and practices as well as our ethos. Our motto, non vestra sed vos – not what you have but who you are – defines our values and how we aim to live.

It is important to us that our students graduate as educated people in the broadest and deepest sense of that word. If you come to Chad’s, we hope that you will be stretched not just intellectually (although you will be!) but that you will also challenge yourself physically, aesthetically, spiritually and emotionally, and that your curiosity and empathy towards others and the world will flourish and find direction. We also hope that you will find, along with us, that being a Chadsian is often fun, and that you will feel full a part of our community life – regularly enjoyed in feasts and celebrations.

We welcome students who are willing to be engaged and enterprising, who have the imagination, courage and commitment to spend time trying to understand why things are as they are, and the willingness to try to work out how to make things a little – maybe even a whole lot – better.

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For more information please contact:
Undergraduates: chads.admissions@durham.ac.uk
Postgraduates: chads.pgadmissions@durham.ac.uk