), AMAZING bar! Any information on Queens, Emmanuel, Christ's or Clare would be great! Get the chance to live in Old Court, the oldest court in all of Oxbridge, whose buildings are 600 years old and is the oldest continuously used student accommodation in the world. Out of the town centre, quickest route home is uphill, but this forces you to do some exercise in your daily routine. COVID-19 FACULTY RESOURCES . Kitchen situation isn't the dream at central site, usually comes with a kettle and microwave, so can be harder if you want to cook for yourself. The Cambridge Student has compiled a survey, to compare formals and butteries throughout the university. Students say that the college food is good, fairly low in price, but a little repetitive. 5 Sidney Sussex. Some of the oldest buildings do look really nice but students do experience the problems of living in a building that was originally built in the middle ages. Only 3.3% come from the poorest 20% of househoulds. Nick Griffin's Alma Mater. Guests from other colleges are also expected to wear their respective gown. Food - food is generally really good, it's self serve with about four different main options and ~5 different types of veg. Allowed to walk on the grass in the Fellows' Garden, beautiful flowers and inspiring place to revise! Accepted more students than there was accommodation for, the college does not own any off-site housing, so many students (particularly for Masters) were left having to find their own housing before arrival, problematic if you get your offer very late in the cycle. For the lunch and evening dinner you can choose from a range of options for your main course, as well as sides, and extras like fruit, snacks and puddings. College rents are in the middle of the pack for Cambridge Colleges, which is very good given the beautiful nature of the building and the central location. Richest Oxbridge college by far - endowed with well over 1 billion! Lucy Cavendish is one of the colleges that gives the most funding per students, and it offers plenty of grants for research and research-related travel. History, tales and fine dining. 6 Music practice rooms and a collection of instruments in College, Ethical food policy (locally sourced etc). Postgraduate study at Cambridge can be a life-changing experience. Very central - 2 minutes from the Science faculties, 7 minutes from the Sidgewick (arts) site, 2 minutes from centre of town where you can find Sainsbury's and a wide range of shops and restaurants. However, only 6 students maximum per session. There's a variety of catering facilities, ranging from cafeterias, to butteries and formal halls (three-course dinners usually held in the main College dining hall). This independent speciality coffee shop has two cafs in Cambridge and a roastery in Shepreth, serving coffee made from ethically sourced, 100% Arabica beans, gently roasted for maximum flavour and complexity. Pembroke Players (the drama soc) has one of the best reputations for student theatre, Very few tourists, slightly off the beaten track even though v central - tranquil atmosphere, Smoking no longer permitted in accommodation from 2015/16 onwards, Henry Moore sculpture outside main residential building, Food prices are reasonable (1 for any side dish, around 3 for main courses), Formal hall available every night, so the choice is always there and fits easily around your schedule, Very pretty gardens (with exotic plants - not just square pieces of lawn), Has many courts and little pathways/archways in the gardens which makes it feel more homely, Has pretty buildings like the library or Ivy Court, Former Master Richard Dearlove was previously head of MI6, Strong sport teams, especially in rowing/rugby, Very good reputation for English Lit/Medic students, and there are famous alumni like Ted Hughes or Edmund Spenser, Most environmentally-friendly college (2019/2020), Onsite kitchens get microwaves and hobs (but no ovens), Most offsite accommodation is really close to the college (eg. Sent all students home (including internationals!) Situated in the leafy suburbs of Cambridge, near the University Library and the Sidgwick site, Wolfson is a contemporary college for mature and graduate students. Clare/Caius/Catz/Trin etc). 806 8067 22 Registered Office: Imperial House, 2nd Floor, 40-42 Queens Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 3XB, Taking a break or withdrawing from your course, http://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2014/05/20/formal-review-corpus-ready-36255, Official University of Bristol 2022 Applicant Thread, BT Graduate scheme - The student room 2023, Official UCL 2023 Undergraduate Applicants Thread, Official Thread: (Undergraduate) Medicine 2023 Entry. Pretty expensive for things like food (~3-4 a meal, 11.50 for formals), wine (7.50), laundry (3), Wifi (24.53) etc. Former Master George Thomson won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. So far away from the city centre it takes over 50 minutes to walk all the way to the centre - almost 2 hours if you want to walk there and back! Second richest college after Trinity College: lots of bursaries and grants, for example: The Learning and Research Grant will subsidise 50% of books etc. Correctly regarded as an unfriendly, elitist college. There is a 67% gap between Homerton, the college found to have the cheapest average [] The smallest college, so all of your year (plus Master, Dean, and porters) will know you by name. Some cats often come into college, so despite not officially having a college pet, they do have cats. The Oxford college with the most winners is Magdalen with 9. Sarah2003152019, Started by: Vibrant sports community ranging from football to rowing. McGinger, Started by: The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking that lists the Colleges of the University of Cambridge in order of their undergraduate students' performances in that year's examinations. A single University of Cambridge college has taken 22 students from just one London private school, analysis by The . Graham Chapman went here, as did John Harvard (yes, Among the highest gender ratios - 2018 cohort was 51.5% female, 71.9% of uk students in 2018 were from state schools, On the larger side, lots of opportunity to meet people but not huge like homerton, johns, trinity etc, The College Drinking Society invited members to go out and 'smash the girls', You can't walk on the grass in the front court, There are very few ovens so self-catering can be difficult, Internet connection cuts out occasionally. Resources. Sit outside (even in the winter) and watch the world go by, whilst you savour what is possibly one of the tastiest cakes in town. Famous musicians come to play at Jesus every so often too, One of the top Chapel Choirs in Cambridge. However, the food served in the Halls and historic rooms at Cambridge Colleges have always been excellent and takes college food to a completely different level. Strong sports teams, most sports in top division (including football, rugby, netball). Lots of grants, accommodation is excellent and reasonably priced and facilities are good, 6th-cheapest College for accommodation (an average they deliberately try to maintain) and arguably the best value for money on rooms out of all Colleges (except for the fact that kitchens can be dismal). Students can store some belongings in out of term storage, so they don't have to drag everything back home at the end of every term (good for international students). Angela Gama, Started by: Puddings are also great and not too expensive. Good access to communal spaces - free pool and table football in the JCR and Wii/Sky Sports in the TV room. Infamously handled the COVID crisis the worst, see points above and points below. Copyright The Student Room 2023 all rights reserved. The college is very small which is good for getting to know everyone, but some people might not like it, Cheapest formal in Cambridge but still good food, candlelit, very atmospheric, and held every evening, Food hall (Ramsay) serves cheap but nice food, Very friendly and small enough you can know everyone if you want to, Far enough out that there are very few tourists but still 5 mins walk from Sainsbury's, so fairly central, Most river frontage of all colleges and has a 'beach'. Big theatre (recently renovated), where movies are shown regularly, at ridiculously low prices. The food is very good and it costs 12.75. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. Pleasant, quiet location in nice surroundings well away from the tourists. Means you get to live together as a year group so won't find yourself on a floor full of people you don't know. The College has two Nobel Laureates. Report. Kings Collegehas the largest Hall of the Cambridge Colleges, and they have various Formal Halls during the year. Infamous for favouring advantaged students over disadvantaged (Ramanujan being an exception). Some kitchen space in college, so self-catering can be done, all 3rd years and 2nd years have ovens. The is a gym onsite, which will receive new machines this year. The Library is not as nice as many other Colleges. Only 2.9% come from the poorest 20% of households, Invests 2.5m in arms companies and 3.2m in tobacco companies, Food in hall somewhat more expensive and not as nice as elsewhere. Free pool table, table football and table tennis. Students can no longer bring wine into formals and can only be served three glasses of wine. IBkidinthecorner, Started by: " Worst Chicken ever, period! Corpus Christi One of the most central colleges really near Kings. Brilliant alumni in other areas: Eddie Redmayne (Oscar-winning actor), Lord Byron (poet), Amartya Sen (former Master of Trinity College and Nobel Laureate in economics), Sir James Mirrlees (Nobel Laureate in economics), Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury), Jawaharlal Nehru (first PM of India), Nicholas Patrick (NASA astronaut) and many others! Selwyn. Choosing a college can be difficult, and there are detailed guides for most Cambridge undergraduate colleges. According to the PBU Instagram, 55 percent of the vote was in favor of the motion, and 21 percent were against it. Lots of "special" Halls, like Harry Potter Superhall, Chinese New Year Superhall, etc. A real college will laugh at you if you mention that you went to Cambridge.