University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge[note 1] (abbreviated as Cantab in post-nominal letters;[note 2] conjointly called Cambridge University) could be a collegial public analysis university within the English city of Cambridge. supported in 1209, Cambridge is that the second oldest university within the communicatory world and also the world's fourth-oldest extant university. It grew out of AN association of students UN agency left the University of Oxford when a dispute with the townsfolk.the 2 ancient universities share several common options and ar typically conjointly remarked as "Oxbridge".

Cambridge is made from a range of establishments that embody thirty one constituent faculties and over one hundred educational departments organized into six faculties. The university occupies buildings throughout the town, several of that ar of historical importance. the colleges ar free establishments supported as integral elements of the university. within the year over thirty one July 2015, the university had a complete financial gain of £1.638 billion, of that £397 million was from analysis grants and contracts. The central university and faculties have a combined endowment of around £5.89 billion, the biggest of any university outside the us. Cambridge could be a member of the many associations and forms a part of the "golden triangle" of leading English universities and Cambridge Health Partners, an instructional health science centre. The university is closely coupled with the event of the sophisticated business cluster called "Silicon Fen".

Students' learning involves lectures and laboratory sessions organized by departments, and supervisions provided by the colleges. The university operates eight arts, cultural, and scientific museums, as well as the Fitzwilliam repository and a biology garden. Cambridge's libraries hold a complete of around fifteen million books, eight million of that ar in Cambridge Library that could be a legal deposit library. Cambridge Press, a department of the university, is that the world's oldest publishing firm and also the second-largest university press within the world. Cambridge is often enclosed among the world's best and most estimable universities by most university rankings. Beside educational studies, student life is centred on the colleges and diverse pan-university creative activities, sports clubs and societies.

Cambridge has several notable alumni, as well as many eminent mathematicians, scientists, economists, writers, philosophers, actors, politicians. xcii philanthropist laureates are related to with it as students, faculty, employees or alumni.Throughout its history, the university has featured in literature and creative works by varied authors as well as Chaucer, E. M. Forster and C. P. Snow.