Organisation

All students and most academics are attached to a college, however the faculties, departments, research centres and laboratories belong to the university.

3 of 31 colleges admit women only. Originally, most colleges were all-male. The first college to admit both men and women was Darwin.

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Organisation

The university is also made up of schools. A ‘school’ in Cambridge is a broad group of related faculties. There are 6 schools:

• Arts and Humanities• Biological Sciences• Clinical Medicine• Humanities and Social Sciences• Physical Sciences• Technology <<back

Notable alumni and academicsMathematic and sciences: Sir Isaac Newton (physics laws) James Clerk Maxwell (electromagnetic

theory) Charles Darwin (theory of natural

selection) Francis Crick and James Watson (code

of DNA) Stephen Hawking (study of

singularities) Sir Ian Wilmut (the first clone, Dolly the

sheep)

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Notable alumni and academicsLiterature:• Lord Byron (Don Juan)• Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)• C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)• A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)• W. M. Thackeray (Vanity Fair)

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Student life

Upon arrival, all students automatically become members of CUSU – Cambridge University Students’ Union.

Sport is an important part of students’ lives. The most popular sport is rowing, there are competitions between colleges and against Oxford – the Boat Race.

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Student life

Cambridge has a lot of societies and clubs to offer to its students. There are:

• Sport clubs (boat clubs, football league, cricket)

• Political societies• Academic societies• Drama clubs

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Some students from Cambridge run a blog – it’s a public online diary. There information about student life and studying at Cambridge can be found. Visit these sites:

http://becambridge.comAndhttp://cam.ac.uk

Student life

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I hope you have learnt something new about Cambridge University.

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