St Catherine's College, University of Oxford | 2,538 followers on LinkedIn. St Catherine’s College, known as Catz, is the youngest and one of the largest of the 38 Oxford colleges. Developing out of the St Catherine’s Society, we were founded as a fully-fledged College in 1962 and still pride ourselves on retaining the egalitarian ethos of the original Society. Over the last half-century, we have become a thriving academic institution, inspiring great contributions to society.