It was an all-graduate college, concentrating on the recruitment of students in business and management studies.

The college was based at Egrove Park in Kennington, south of Oxford.

Initially a "society of entitlement" in the university, Templeton College began admitting graduate students in 1984 and became a full graduate college of the university by royal charter in 1995.

An animal rights activist was convicted of conspiracy to commit arson in February 2009.

[2] Templeton's former site at Egrove Park remains in use by the Saïd Business School as its Executive Education Centre.