The University of Cambridge
was founded in 1209 and is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge,
The Great Britain (England). .It is the second-oldest university in the
English-speaking world and the world's fourth-oldest surviving university.
After the dispute with townsfolk,
it grew out of an association of scholars who left the University of Oxford.
Including 31
constituent colleges and over 100 academic departments Cambridge was formed. The
colleges are self-governing institutions founded as integral parts of the
university. Its university
occupies buildings throughout the town, and many of which are of historical
importance. The university is closely linked with the development of the
high-tech business cluster known as silicon fen. The central university
and colleges have a combined aptitude of around £4.9 billion which is the
largest of any university outside the United States
Beside academic
studies approximately student life is centered on the colleges and numerous
pan-university artistic activities and in different sports clubs and societies.
Students learning involve lectures and laboratory sessions organized by departments
and by college supervisions provided. Cambridge University operates scientific
museums, Arts, and culture including the botanic garden and Fitzwilliam Museum.
It holds around 15 million books out of which 8 million books are in its library
which is a legal deposit library. Its printing press is the oldest publishing
house and second largest university printing press.
According to University Ranking 2014-15 by
Academic Performance (URAP), it is the
2nd university in UK and coming second to Oxford, and listed as 5th top university
in the world. It has many notable alumni, politicians, economists, actors
including several eminent mathematicians, scientists, writers, philosophers, and 90 Nobel laureates who have been
affiliated with it.