University of Cambridge

Entry standards

•Most conditional offers made by the Cambridge colleges will require A*AA in three A level subjects (or equivalent).
•Colleges have the discretion to make non-standard offers where appropriate as part of their holistic assessment of candidates.
•Applicants may be asked to submit written work or sit a test (i.e. BMAT or a college-based test).
•The university interviews the majority of its undergraduate applicants.
Teaching standards

•Cambridge is at the international forefront of excellence in teaching and research.
•Performance league tables consistently place Cambridge among the world's top-ranking institutions.
•Supervisions, small group tutorials with a senior member of the university, are one of the unique advantages of the teaching at Cambridge.
Research standards

•In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 71% of academic staff were deemed to be producing world-leading or internationally excellent research – the highest proportion of outstanding research in the UK.
Academic strengths
•Cambridge has produced 88 Nobel Prize winners.
•The university has one of the highest levels of graduate employment in the UK.
Course flexibility
•Courses cover the subject very broadly in the initial years and then become more specialised within a wide range of options in the later years.
Student facilities, including library and computing
•Every college has a computer suite, linked to the university network and available (usually round the clock) for work and email.
•Each college library contains the standard texts needed for an undergraduate course, as well as other materials. The university provides extensive library facilities in every department.
•The university library is a copyright library, meaning it receives by law a copy of every book published in Britain.
Disability service
•The university has a Disability Resource Centre.
•Find out about the disability service at Cambridge University on the website.
•Telephone 01223 332301, fax 01223 766863, or email disability@admin.cam.ac.uk.
Students' union
•The union exists to represent Cambridge students' interests at a university level, and to provide central services and support for all students.
Sport
•A  wide range of sports are catered for at university and college level. Sports facilities include playing fields, courts, boathouses and often additional facilities such as multi-gyms.
Recent/prospective new builds
•An ongoing estate development programme is currently valued at more than £430 million, with major new faculty, research and accommodation facilities.
Availability of part-time work
•Since the university terms are short and highly demanding on students' time and intellectual capabilities, the university strongly discourages taking on part-time work.
History
•The university, founded in 1209, has recently celebrated its 800th anniversary.
Location and transport
•Cambridge is 88.5km (55 miles) north of London, off the M11 motorway, a 45-minute journey by train.
•Stansted Airport is 48km (30 miles) away.
Notable alumni
•Christ's College – Charles Darwin, Sacha Baron-Cohen, Rowan Williams.
•Clare College – Siegfried Sassoon, Roger Norrington, David Attenborough.
•Corpus Christi College – Christopher Marlow, John Fletcher, Matthew Parker.
•Darwin College – Jane Goodall.
•Downing College – John Cleese, Trevor Nunn, Thandie Newton.
•Emmanuel College – John Harvard, Griff Rhys Jones, Graham Chapman.
•Fitzwilliam College – Lord Fawsley, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Drake.
•Girton College – Sandi Toksvig, Raquel Cassidy, Delia Derbyshire.
•Gonville and Caius College – Thomas Shadwell, Harold Abrahams, Alastair Campbell.
•Homerton College – Nick Hancock, Cherie Lunghi, Graham Wynne.
•Jesus College – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Snowdon, Nick Nornby.
•Kings College – Francis Walsingham, Salman Rushdie, Lily Cole.
•Magdalene College – Samuel Pepys, Katie Derham, Alan Rusbridger.
•New Hall College – Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, Sue Perkins.
•Newnham College – Emma Thompson, A.S. Byatt, Claire Balding.
•Pembroke College – William Pitt, Jonathan Lynn, Eric Idle.
•Peterhouse College – Charles Babbage, Sam Mendes, David Mitchell.
•Queens' College – Stephen Fry, Richard Hickox, Osborne Reynolds.
•Robinson College – Charles Hart, Konnie Huq, Robert Webb.
•St Catharine's College – Ian McKellen, Steve Punt, Richard Ayoade.
•St John's College – William Wordsworth, Hugh Dennis, Sid Waddell.
•Selwyn College – Hugh Laurie, Simon Hughes, Robert Harris.
•Sidney Sussex College – Oliver Cromwell, Ian Lang, Tom Kilburn.
•Trinity – John Nott, Stephen Frears, Charles Moore.
•Trinity Hall College – J.B Priestley, Terry Waite, Stephen Hawking.
For further information
Web  www.cam.ac.uk
 
Email  admissions@cam.ac.uk
 
Phone  +44 (0) 1223 333308
 
Address  University of Cambridge
Cambridge Admissions Office
Fitzwilliam House
32 Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1QY

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University of Cambridge Tuition Fees 2012

The tuition fees for full-time UK and other EU students beginning their undergraduate studies at English universities in 2012 have been announced. The average fee across all universities will be £8,393 as compared to that for 2011 entry of £3,375. To offset this increase in fee levels, there will be additional financial support for students from lower income families and other groups not well represented in higher education. This will be in the form of fee waivers, grants, bursaries and scholarships, and accommodation discounts. It is a comprehensive package of income and expenditure but most of the media coverage has concentrated on the cost and not enough on the benefits and help.

Students resident in Wales will receive a non-repayable Fee Grant equal to the fee amount above £3,465, no matter where in the UK they study.

* The estimated average cost per student after allowing for financial support (eg. fee waivers and bursaries) from the institution.

University of Cambridge Tuition Fees to 2011

The table below lists the annual tuition fees that were charged to new students entering the first year of an undergraduate degree or a one-year taught postgraduate course, most recently for those entering in September/October 2011. Note that these are tuition fees only for the full academic year and do not include accommodation, living costs or travel costs, etc.

Fees for UK nationals with UK residence (home students) and EU nationals with EU residence (EU students) are the same, whereas fees for other overseas students are typically differentiated by course, usually in two bands: one for arts/classroom based courses and the other, typically higher, for science/laboratory based courses (fees for medicine and dentistry are generally much higher).

Postgraduate course fees do not necessarily fit neatly in fee bands and further enquiry should be made to a university (or its website) for the exact fees for a particular course.

We wish to acknowledge and warmly thank the late Mike Reddin for permission to publish extracts from his tables of university and college fees.

Bursaries and scholarships

• National Scholarship Programme – £6,000 in the first year for those with family income below £25,000.
• Cambridge Bursary/Cambridge European Bursary – up to £3,500 (up to £5,650 for some mature students) per year for those studying for their first undergraduate degree from households with incomes below £42,600.
• Year abroad tuition fee will be half the standard tuition fee.
• Students from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland may be eligible for bursaries, subject to assessment.
• College awards and scholarships.
• College grants and loans.
• Sports grants and bursaries
• Music awards.
• Support for students with a disability.
• Support for students with dependent children