University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England, founded in 1209 and ranked among the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world. The university is formed from 31 constituent colleges and over 150 departments, faculties, and other institutions, educating around 24,000 students from more than 140 countries. Its alumni include luminaries such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, and Stephen Hawking, and Cambridge affiliates have won more than 120 Nobel Prizes. The university sustains a broad range of academic disciplines across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, with the Cambridge cluster playing a major role in the regional technology economy often referred to as Silicon Fen. Undergraduate teaching combines lectures with small-group supervisions organized through the colleges, a distinctive pedagogical model. Research activity spans fields from biomedical science and artificial intelligence to classics and philosophy, supported by institutions such as the Cavendish Laboratory and the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. The official web portal provides information on admissions, courses, research, libraries, museums, and college life for prospective students and the public.