University of Cambridge

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The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's fourth-oldest surviving university

Cambridge is formed from a variety of institutions which include 31 constituent colleges and over 100 academic departments organised into six schools. The university occupies buildings throughout the town, many of which are of historical importance.

Cambridge is a member of many associations and forms part of the "golden triangle" of leading English universities and Cambridge University Health Partners, an academic health science centre. The university is closely linked with the development of the high-tech business cluster known as "Silicon Fen".

Students' learning involves lectures and laboratory sessions organized by departments, and supervisions provided by the colleges. The university operates eight arts, cultural, and scientific museums, including the Fitzwilliam Museum and a botanic garden

Cambridge's libraries hold a total of around 15 million books, 8 million of which are in Cambridge University Library which is a legal deposit library. Cambridge University Press, a department of the university, is the world's oldest publishing house and the second-largest university press in the world.

Cambridge has many notable alumni, including several eminent mathematicians, scientists, economists, writers, philosophers, actors, politicians, and 90 Nobel laureates who have been affiliated with it.

The University of Cambridge has nine museums and collections which are open to the public throughout the year.
All College chapels are open to the public at select times, and most of the Colleges are also open for visits.
Students live, eat and socialise in one of the University’s 31 autonomous Colleges.

The Cambridge city occupies an area of 40 km and it is inhabited by over 100 thousand people.
In the composition of Cambridge includes 31 colleges and over 150 departments
Cambridge University has 114 libraries.
In Cambridge today there are 18 thousand students, foreigners about 17 %
Scientists at Cambridge from 1904, received 82 Nobel prizes in the fields of physics, medicine and chemistry.
The most famous graduates of Cambridge were: sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford.

Cambridge University spends on research 650 thousand pounds a year.
In Cambridge there is a rule prohibiting play tennis on the streets of the city.
Residents of Cambridge are very loyal, so the mayor of his town in 2007 chose a transgender person Jenny Bailey.

With more than 18,000 students from all walks of life and all corners of the world, nearly 9,000 staff, 31 Colleges and 150 Departments, Faculties, Schools and other institutions.

At the heart of this confederation of Departments, Schools, Faculties and Colleges is a central administration team. It is small because the Colleges are self-governing and teaching staff carry out much of the daily administration at Cambridge.

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