2006 Norrington Table Puts New College in Third Place

I see that The University now officially publishes the Norrington table on it's website. The Norrington table was devised by Sir Arthur Norrington, president of Trinity College in 1962. The table ranks and rates Oxford colleges on the exam results of undergraduate students taking their finals. Publication of the table on the university website is a big change in policy as the university apparently used to try to prevent the list's publication, but it published a table for the first time in 2005 due to large inaccuracies in the unofficial table drawn up by a team of students and newspapers.

It's always good fun to look at: this year first place is taken by Merton, followed by Balliol, and third place is shared between New College and Magdalen. Somerville managed to come mid-table and St Catz was only a little lower. I'm very surprised by Keble which has fallen from tenth to twenty-sixth - unfortunately the university doesn't list last years ranking on the page, although I'm sure that will be in the tables in tomorrow's press reports (in the meantime, data for 2000-2005 can be found here).

Time to get back to my research...


Ali