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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge
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Trinity Lane, The Old Schools, Cambridge, United Kingdom, CB2 1TN
The University of Cambridge is a collegiate university, which means that while there is no sole university site, a cluster of 31 independent colleges lay scattered around different parts of the city. The university, founded in 1209, is deemed as the 'second-oldest university in the English-speaking world'. This prestigious university was born following a fallout of a group of scholars with the townspeople of Oxford, a disagreement that led to separation from the University of Oxford. The oldest, Peterhouse, was founded in 1284; the newest, Robinson, in 1977. The colleges come in all shapes and sizes: from small postgraduate Clare Hall, built in the late 1960s, to the grand Tudor expanse of Trinity. Every student is affiliated to a college, and each college is self-governing and financially independent. The university controls the faculties, subject departments, central administration (the Old Schools and the Senate House), museums, the printing press and the Botanic Garden. The university has nurtured a slew of scholars who have gone on to shine in their respective fields, including Stephen Hawking, Srinivasa Ramanuja, Sir Isaac Newton, and English playwright Christopher Marlowe.
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