# Balliol College
**Entity class:** College of the University of Oxford
## Definition
**Balliol College** is a constituent college of the [[wiki/University of Oxford|University of Oxford]]. [[wiki/John Templeton|John Templeton]] attended Balliol as a [[wiki/Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]] and earned a law degree in 1936.
## Relationships
- **university:** [[wiki/University of Oxford|University of Oxford]].
- **scholarship route:** [[wiki/Rhodes Trust|Rhodes Trust]] and [[wiki/Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholarship]].
- **Templeton genealogy:** education and elite-network formation preceding the [[wiki/John Templeton Foundation|Templeton philanthropic complex]].
- **collection route:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [Balliol College](https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/)
- [John Templeton Foundation — Sir John Templeton](https://www.templeton.org/about/sir-john-templeton)