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Organisation

Organisation. All students and most academics are attached to a college, however the faculties, departments, research centres and laboratories belong to the university.

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Organisation

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  1. Organisation All students and most academics are attached to a college, however the faculties, departments, research centres and laboratories belong to the university. 3 of 31 colleges admit women only. Originally, most colleges were all-male. The first college to admit both men and women was Darwin. <<back

  2. Organisation The university is also made up of schools. A ‘school’ in Cambridge is a broad group of related faculties. There are 6 schools: • Arts and Humanities • Biological Sciences • Clinical Medicine • Humanities and Social Sciences • Physical Sciences • Technology <<back

  3. Notable alumni and academics Mathematic and sciences: • Sir Isaac Newton (physics laws) • James Clerk Maxwell (electromagnetic theory) • Charles Darwin (theory of natural selection) • Francis Crick and James Watson (code of DNA) • Stephen Hawking (study of singularities) • Sir Ian Wilmut (the first clone, Dolly the sheep) <<back

  4. Notable alumni and academics Literature: • Lord Byron (Don Juan) • Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) • C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) • A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh) • W. M. Thackeray (Vanity Fair) <<back

  5. Student life Upon arrival, all students automatically become members of CUSU – Cambridge University Students’ Union. Sport is an important part of students’ lives. The most popular sport is rowing, there are competitions between colleges and against Oxford – the Boat Race. <<back

  6. Student life Cambridge has a lot of societies and clubs to offer to its students. There are: • Sport clubs (boat clubs, football league, cricket) • Political societies • Academic societies • Drama clubs <<back

  7. Student life Some students from Cambridge run a blog – it’s a public online diary. There information about student life and studying at Cambridge can be found. Visit these sites: http://becambridge.com And http://cam.ac.uk <<back

  8. Thanks for viewing! I hope you have learnt something new about Cambridge University. <<back

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