"The College of Cambridge (legitimately The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge) is a collegiate research study university in Cambridge, UK. Established in 1209 and granted an imperial charter by King Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest college in the English-speaking globe and the globe's fourth-oldest surviving college. The college grew out of an association of scholars that left the University of Oxford after a conflict with the townspeople. [12] Both 'ancient universities' share several common functions and are frequently referred to collectively as 'Oxbridge'. The history and also influence of the College of Cambridge have actually made it one of the most distinguished colleges worldwide.

Cambridge is developed from a range of establishments that include 31 semi-autonomous component Colleges and also over 100 scholastic departments organised into six schools. Cambridge University Press, a division of the college, is the world's oldest publishing home and also the second-largest university press on the planet. Cambridge Assessment, also a division of the college, is one of the globe's leading checking out bodies and also supplies evaluation to over eight million students internationally each year. The college likewise runs 8 cultural and also clinical galleries, consisting of the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as a botanic garden. Cambridge's collections, of which there are 116, hold a total amount of around 16 million publications, around 9 numerous which remain in Cambridge College Library, a lawful down payment library. The college is house to, yet independent of, the Cambridge Union - the globe's oldest discussing society. The college is carefully linked to the advancement of the high-tech organisation cluster called 'Silicon Fen'. It is the central member of Cambridge University Health Partners, a scholastic wellness science centre based around the Cambridge Biomedical University.

In the fiscal year ending 31 July 2019, the central university, leaving out universities, had a total income of ₤ 2.192 billion, of which ₤ 592.4 million was from research study gives and contracts. At the end of the exact same fiscal year, the central college as well as colleges together had a consolidated endowment of over ₤ 6.9 billion as well as overall consolidated internet properties (omitting 'immaterial' historical properties) of ₤ 12.569 billion. By both endowment dimension as well as consolidated possessions, Cambridge is the richest college in the UK.

Cambridge is rated the world's second best university by the Times Higher Education Globe College Rankings, rated 3rd worldwide by Academic Position of Globe Universities, sixth by QS, as well as 7th by US News. Cambridge was placed No. 10 in the 2016 and also 2018 Nature Index Annual Tables, which determine the biggest factors to papers published in 82 leading clinical journals. According to the Times Higher Education position, nothing else institution in the world ranks in the leading 10 for as numerous subjects. It is a member of countless associations and forms part of the 'gold triangular' of English universities.

The college has enlightened lots of noteworthy alumni, consisting of eminent mathematicians, scientists, politicians, attorneys, philosophers, writers, actors, emperors as well as various other presidents. Since October 2019, 120 Nobel Laureates, 11 Area Medalists, 7 Turing Award winners as well as 14 British Prime Ministers have been connected with Cambridge as pupils, alumni, faculty or research study team. University graduates have actually won 194 Olympic medals."