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The University of Cambridge has 31 colleges, [5] founded between the 13th and 20th centuries. No colleges were founded between 1596 (Sidney Sussex College) and 1800 (Downing College), which allows the colleges to be distinguished into two groups according to foundation date:
Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [5] It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008. The name honours a gift of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, and the first President and woman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Rosemary Murray.
Hughes Hall was founded in the 19th century as the Cambridge Training College for Women with the purpose of providing a college of the university dedicated to training women graduates for the teaching profession. Since then it has enlarged and expanded to support a community of students and researchers, both male and female, working in all the ...
Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [3] Its first premises were acquired in Homerton, London in 1768, by an informal gathering of Protestant dissenters with origins in the seventeenth century. In 1894, the college moved from Homerton High Street, Hackney, London, to Cambridge.
Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [6] The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. [ 7 ] The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as God's House .
The Hidden Hall: Portrait of a Cambridge College, Peter Pagnamenta, ISBN 1-903942-31-4; Trinity Hall: The History of a Cambridge College, 1350-1975, Charles Crawley, ISBN 0-9505122-0-6; Warren's Book (Ed. 1911 by A.W.W.Dale) Trinity Hall or, The college of scholars of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, in the University of Cambridge, Henry Elliot ...
Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [ 4 ] The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all backgrounds a chance to study at the university.
The Great British Class Survey (GBCS) was a survey of social class in the United Kingdom conducted in 2011. [1] The survey was developed in collaboration with academics from the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of York.