Southlands College, in Roehampton in the

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, is one of four colleges at the

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and is the location of the University's Business School and its Department of Media, Culture and Language. It was established by the

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in 1872, originally in

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, as a

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for women and became coeducational in 1965. In 1975, the college became part of the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, which became Roehampton University in 2004. The college includes Mount Clare House, a

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, and a Methodist chapel.

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