- Colleges of the University of Cambridge
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This is a list of the colleges within the University of Cambridge. These colleges are the primary source of accommodation for undergraduates and graduates at the University and at the undergraduate level have responsibility for admitting students and organising their tuition.[1] They also provide funding and/or accommodation for some of the senior research posts in the University.[2] The colleges are self-governed charitable institutions on their own right, with their own endowments and possessions. Until the mid-19th century, both Cambridge and Oxford were rather a group of colleges with a small central university administration, than universities in the common sense.
The University of Cambridge has 31 colleges,[2] of which Peterhouse is the oldest, founded in 1284.[3] The newest college of the university is Robinson, founded in 1977.[4]
Three Cambridge colleges admit only women (Murray Edwards, Newnham and Lucy Cavendish). The other colleges are now mixed, though most were originally all-male. Darwin was the first college to admit both men and women, while Churchill, Clare and King's colleges were the first previously all-male colleges to admit female undergraduates in 1972. Magdalene was the last all-male college to become mixed in 1988.[5] Two colleges admit only postgraduates (Clare Hall and Darwin), and four more admit only mature students (i.e. 21 years or older on date of matriculation) and graduate students (Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish, St Edmund’s and Wolfson).[6] All other colleges admit both undergraduate and postgraduate students with no age restrictions.
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Colleges
Key: U–undergraduates, P–postgraduates.
Scarf colours[7] College Founded[8] U[9] P[9] Male %[9] Female %[9] Total[9] Fixed assets (£)[10][11] Website Notes Christ's 1505 423 91 58 42 514 66,602,000 [12] Churchill 1960 476 228 71 29 704 105,978,346 [13] Clare 1326 473 182 52 48 655 70,707,000 [14] Clare Hall 1965 0 155 47 53 155 10,579,203 [15] Graduate students only. Corpus Christi 1352 250 209 60 40 459 172,218,402 [16] Darwin 1964 0 591 54 46 591 33,160,032 [17] Graduate students only. Downing 1800 440 183 66 34 623 86,798,000 [18] Emmanuel 1584 510 123 51 49 633 142,262,047 [19] Fitzwilliam 1869 (1966) 502 186 63 37 688 43,509,000 [20] Girton 1869 531 146 53 47 677 [21] 64,000,000[22] Gonville and Caius 1348 546 173 60 40 719 127,401,607 [23] Homerton 1895 (1976) 593 588 37 63 1181 115,756,432 [24][25] Hughes Hall 1885 85 334 61 39 419 18,483,546 [26] Mature undergrad, and grad students only. Jesus 1496 503 201 57 43 704 236,404,421 [27] King's 1441 394 187 57 43 581 126,561,000 [28] Lucy Cavendish 1965 110 110 0 100 220 24,323,000 [29] Mature female undergrad, and female grad students only. Magdalene 1428 366 127 54 46 493 73,763,845 [30] Murray Edwards 1954 387 55 0 100 442 52,852,893 [31] Female only. Formerly New Hall. Newnham 1871 412 112 0 100 524 90,287,969 [32] Female students only. Pembroke 1347 442 155 53 47 597 103,991,180 [33] Peterhouse 1284 266 88 57 43 354 171,887,000 [34] Queens' 1448 535 297 57 43 832 57,310,511 [35] Robinson 1977 422 73 60 40 495 24,863,000 [36] St Catharine's 1473 462 159 52 48 621 68,797,000 [37] St Edmund's 1896 126 205 69 31 331 8,381,224 [38] Mature undergrad, and grad students only. St John's 1511 588 243 59 41 831 567,390,000 [39] Selwyn 1882 388 130 70 30 518 69,992,285 [40] Sidney Sussex 1596 371 135 63 37 506 64,952,747 [41] Trinity 1546 656 373 63 37 1029 621,000,000 [42] Trinity Hall 1350 384 196 54 46 580 172,354,243 [43] Wolfson 1965 119 385 64 36 504 47,307,000 [44] Mature undergrad, and grad students only. Totals 11,824 6,002 17,826 c. 3,407,053,395 Total Endowment of University, c. £4.1 billion[45] There are also several theological colleges in Cambridge (for example Westcott House, Westminster College, Wesley House and Ridley Hall) that are affiliated with the university through the Cambridge Theological Federation. These colleges, while not officially part of the University of Cambridge, operate programmes that are either validated by or are taught on behalf of either the University or Anglia Ruskin University.[46]
Former colleges
The above list does not include several former colleges that no longer exist. These include:
- Buckingham College, founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hall, refounded as Magdalene in 1542.[47]
- Bull College, a college for US GIs, existing from 1945 to 1946.
- "Clare Hall" was the name of Clare College between 1338 and 1856. Clare College founded a new college named Clare Hall in 1966.
- King's Hall, founded in 1317, and combined with Michaelhouse to form Trinity College in 1546.[48]
- Michaelhouse, founded in 1324, and combined with King's Hall to form Trinity College in 1546.[48]
- Gonville Hall, founded in 1348, and re-founded in 1557 as Gonville and Caius College.[49]
- God's House, founded in 1437, and re-founded in 1505 as Christ's College.[50]
- Cavendish College, founded in 1873, a failed attempt to allow poorer students to sit the Tripos examinations, whose buildings were bought by Homerton in 1895.[51][52]
- University College, founded 1965, and re-founded in 1972 as Wolfson College
- University Hall, founded 1326, refounded as Clare Hall in 1338, renamed as Clare College in 1856.
- New Hall, founded 1954, and re-founded in 2008 as Murray Edwards College
See also
- List of Oxbridge sister colleges
- List of fictional Cambridge colleges
- Oxbridge scarf colours
- Colleges of the University of Oxford
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