[3] It has some 450 undergraduate and 200 graduate students and retains an original aim of allowing women of any financial background to study at Oxford.

In April 2017, Helen King, a retired Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner, took over as Principal from Tim Gardam.

[5][6] Former members include Danny Alexander, Edwina Currie, Ruth Deech, Helen Fielding, William MacAskill, Amanda Pritchard, Simon Rattle, Tina Brown, Mr Hudson and Victor Ubogu.

What is now St Anne's College began as part of the Association for the Education of Women (AEW), the first institution in Oxford with that aim.

[7] Unlike other women's associations, the society had no fixed site, instead offering lodgings in houses spread across Oxford.

This allowed students of various financial backgrounds to study at Oxford, as the cost of accommodation in women's halls was often prohibitive.

[7] In the early 20th century, the college housed some students in hostels managed by Catholic and Anglican nuns.

From 1898 till 1906, the Society of Home Students saw some of its members in residence at Wychwood School, then situated at 77 Banbury Road.

They were supervised by Miss Margaret Lee who in 1913, was appointed Tutor to the Oxford Home Students, holding this position until she retired in 1936.

Anglican nun and VAD nurse Gertrude Middleton (1876–1942) lived in college accommodation at Banbury Road having commenced her studies at Oxford in 1900.

The society in the early 1930s still had no centralised site, but within a few years the current location was chosen and by 1937 construction of Hartland House was underway.

[27] The Principal at the time, Mary Ogilvie, pressed for a transition from many disparate dining rooms to a common building.

'"[29] In 2023, work began on the full reconstruction of the Bevington Road accommodation blocks, in order to make them more suitable for future generations of students.

These grounds house all of the college's administrative and academic buildings, undergraduate accommodation, as well as the hall, which is among the largest in Oxford.

[citation needed] St Anne's can accommodate undergraduates on the college site for three years of study.

[citation needed] Trenaman House, built in 1995, holds student rooms and communal college facilities, including the gym, and since 2008, St Anne's Coffee Shop (STACS).

[41] Hartland HouseHartland House, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, was the first purpose-built college building, finished in 1937 with another wing added in 1973.

[44][45] The centre provides various study and seminar spaces and 1,500 metres of bookshelves for the college's growing book collection.

[citation needed] The college grace was composed by former classics tutor and founding fellow Margaret Hubbard.

In second year, the JCR President, VP and Domestic Affairs Officer pull student numbers from a hat.

[citation needed] Unlike many colleges, JCR and MCR committee members receive no advantage in the room ballot for their position.

[49] Meanwhile, the St Anne's men's football team (known as the Mint Green Army) won the Hassan's Cup plate tournament in 2018.

[50] As a former women's college, St Anne's still refers to former students, female or male, as alumnae[29] rather than alumni.