The University of Cambridge (informally known as "Cambridge University" or simply as "Cambridge") is a public research university located in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world (after the University of Oxford), and the third-oldest surviving university in the world. In post-nominals the university's name is abbreviated as Cantab, a shortened form of Cantabrigiensis. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the world.
The institute grew out of an association of scholars that was formed in 1209, early records suggest, by scholars leaving Oxford after a dispute with townsfolk.The two "ancient universities" have many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge. Today, Cambridge is a collegiate university with 31 colleges and six academic schools. All these university institutions occupy different locations in the town including purposely-built sites and the student life thrives with numerous opportunities in the arts, sport clubs and societies. Cambridge is also a member of a myriad of academic associations and forms part of the 'golden triangle' of British universities. A total of 89 Nobel Prizes winners are affiliates of the university.
The Colleges of the University:
The Cambridge University has 31 colleges.Three of them are womens only(Murray Edwards, Newnham and Lucy Cavendish).Of which three, The other colleges are mixed, though most were originally all-male. Darwin was the first college to admit both men and women, admit women only.
Faculties and Department of Cambridge UK:
University Faculties organise teaching and research into individual subjects or groups of subjects. Their work is normally organised into sub-divisions called Departments.
Centres of studies are controlled by committees of management, bringing together representatives from several disciplines.
The Role of the Colleges in Student Life:
University of Cambridge kingdom.A College is that the place wherever students live, eat and socialize. it's additionally the place wherever they receive little cluster teaching sessions, called supervisions. The superintendence system is one the main reasons for the University's success within the external reviews of learning and teaching.
The Colleges and the University support access initiatives to encourage applications from able students from both state and independent schools. The most successful of these is the summer schools programme.
Facilities and resources:
Libraries
- College - all Colleges have a library which contains the standard texts needed for your undergraduate course, along with other materials relating to your subject.
- Department - the libraries in the faculties and departments offer more specialised collections of books, journals, periodicals and electronic resources for particular subjects.
- University - if you can’t find what you need in your College or department library, you can try the University Library (or UL). As one of the country’s six legal deposit libraries, the UL holds a copy of virtually every book published in the UK and Ireland as well as an enormous collection of materials printed overseas. Here you’ll have access to more than eight million books, journals and other documents, written in over 2,000 languages and ranging in age from 3,000-year-old manuscripts to the latest electronic articles.
Computing and IT
Language Centre
- Taught Classes
- Self-study
- Conversation Hours
- Conversation Exchange Scheme
Website: http://www.cam.ac.uk
Address: The Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Phone:+44 1223 337733
