2014 League Table Ranking 1
2014 Overall Score 1000
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Teaching standards
Research standards
2014 Overall Score 1000
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- Summary
- League Tables
- Fees & Finance
- Reviews
- Applying
- MBA
- Accommodation
- International
- Map & Crime
- Also Consider
Entry Standards
608
Student-Staff Ratio
11.6
Research Assessment
2.98
Academic Services Spend
2,297
Student Satisfaction
4.19
Facilities Spend
715
Graduate Prospects
84.9
Degree Completion
98.9
Good Honours
89.4
Green Score
27.5
Entry standards
- Most conditional offers made by the Cambridge colleges will require A*AA in three A level subjects (or equivalent).
- Colleges have the discretion to make non-standard offers where appropriate as part of their holistic assessment of candidates.
- Applicants may be asked to submit written work or sit a test (i.e. BMAT or a college-based test).
- The university interviews the majority of its undergraduate applicants.
Applying
- For a comprehensive guide on applying to Cambridge, see
Teaching standards
- Cambridge is at the international forefront of excellence in teaching and research.
- Performance league tables consistently place Cambridge among the world's top-ranking institutions.
- Supervisions, small group tutorials with a senior member of the university, are one of the unique advantages of the teaching at Cambridge.
Research standards
- In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 71% of academic staff were deemed to be producing world-leading or internationally excellent research – the highest proportion of outstanding research in the UK.
Academic strengths
- Cambridge has produced 89 Nobel Prize winners.
- The university has one of the highest levels of graduate employment in the UK.
Course flexibility
- Courses cover the subject very broadly in the initial years and then become more specialised within a wide range of options in the later years.
Student facilities, including library and computing
- Every college has a computer suite, linked to the university network and available (usually round the clock) for work and email.
- Each college library contains the standard texts needed for an undergraduate course, as well as other materials. The university provides extensive library facilities in every department.
- The university library is a copyright library, meaning it receives by law a copy of every book published in Britain.
Disability service
- The university has a Disability Resource Centre.
- Find out about the disability service at Cambridge University on the website.
- Telephone 01223 332301, fax 01223 766863, or email disability@admin.cam.ac.uk.
Students' union
- The union exists to represent Cambridge students' interests at a university level, and to provide central services and support for all students.
Sport
- A wide range of sports are catered for at university and college level. Sports facilities include playing fields, courts, boathouses and often additional facilities such as multi-gyms.
Recent/prospective new builds
- An ongoing estate development programme is currently valued at more than £430 million, with major new faculty, research and accommodation facilities.
Availability of part-time work
- Since the university terms are short and highly demanding on students' time and intellectual capabilities, the university strongly discourages taking on part-time work during term time.
History
- The university, founded in 1209, has recently celebrated its 800th anniversary.
Location and transport
- Cambridge is 88.5km (55 miles) north of London, off the M11 motorway, a 45-minute journey by train.
- Stansted Airport is 48km (30 miles) away.
Notable alumni
- Christ's College – Charles Darwin, Sacha Baron-Cohen, Rowan Williams.
- Clare College – Siegfried Sassoon, Roger Norrington, David Attenborough.
- Corpus Christi College – Christopher Marlow, John Fletcher, Matthew Parker.
- Darwin College – Jane Goodall.
- Downing College – John Cleese, Trevor Nunn, Thandie Newton.
- Emmanuel College – John Harvard, Griff Rhys Jones, Graham Chapman.
- Fitzwilliam College – Lord Fawsley, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Drake.
- Girton College – Sandi Toksvig, Raquel Cassidy, Delia Derbyshire.
- Gonville and Caius College – Thomas Shadwell, Harold Abrahams, Alastair Campbell.
- Homerton College – Nick Hancock, Cherie Lunghi, Graham Wynne.
- Jesus College – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Snowdon, Nick Nornby.
- Kings College – Francis Walsingham, Salman Rushdie, Lily Cole.
- Magdalene College – Samuel Pepys, Katie Derham, Alan Rusbridger.
- New Hall College – Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, Sue Perkins.
- Newnham College – Emma Thompson, A.S. Byatt, Claire Balding.
- Pembroke College – William Pitt, Jonathan Lynn, Eric Idle.
- Peterhouse College – Charles Babbage, Sam Mendes, David Mitchell.
- Queens' College – Stephen Fry, Richard Hickox, Osborne Reynolds.
- Robinson College – Charles Hart, Konnie Huq, Robert Webb.
- St Catharine's College – Ian McKellen, Steve Punt, Richard Ayoade.
- St John's College – William Wordsworth, Hugh Dennis, Sid Waddell.
- Selwyn College – Hugh Laurie, Simon Hughes, Robert Harris.
- Sidney Sussex College – Oliver Cromwell, Ian Lang, Tom Kilburn.
- Trinity – John Nott, Stephen Frears, Charles Moore.
- Trinity Hall College – J.B Priestley, Terry Waite, Stephen Hawking.
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