It is the second oldest university in the English-speaking world and the fourth oldest university in the world.
The origin of Cambridge University is a group of scholars from Oxford University who moved to Cambridge because of conflicts with Oxford citizens.
Cambridge and Oxford, two British universities founded in the Middle Ages, are very similar in school-running ideas, academic prestige, social status and many other aspects, and are often collectively referred to as "Niu Jian".
Cambridge University is a federal college school composed of member colleges, academic colleges, professional colleges and departments.
It consists of 3 1 member colleges, 150 departments and other affiliated institutions.
Member colleges enjoy a high degree of autonomy and are semi-independent institutions.
They have their own management framework, independent enrollment and student activities.
With the development of time, the current member colleges have reduced the proportion of teaching and scientific research, but the departments are mainly responsible for it.
Academic colleges and professional colleges are the upper organizations responsible for management.
Cambridge University Press is also a part of the university and the second oldest publishing house in the world.
The university has eight museums and a botanical garden related to culture and science.
The library in Cambridge? Collection of books/kloc-more than 0/00 volumes (including departments, colleges and central libraries), with a total collection of about150,000 volumes.
The university general library is also one of the six legal libraries in Britain, so it has the right to ask domestic publishers to provide books as collections.
Cambridge University is a member of many academic alliances, and is also a member of the "Golden Triangle Famous School" in Britain and the medical partner alliance of Cambridge University.
It is also connected with the Silicon Fen in Cambridge and the Cambridge Biomedical Park? (Europe's largest biomedical industry settlement) has close cooperation.
In addition to the courses arranged by various departments, Cambridge students also need to attend the tutorial courses provided by the college.
The school has eight museums of literature and science, a library system with more than150,000 volumes and the oldest university press in the world.
Besides studying, students can join various clubs, study groups and sports teams and participate in different extracurricular activities.
The alumni of Cambridge University include many famous mathematicians, scientists, economists, writers and philosophers.
As of 20 18, 10, * * there are 16 Nobel Prize winners, 15 British Prime Ministers,10 Fields Prize winners, and 6 Turing Prize winners were teachers, students and alumni of our school.
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Geographical survey
Cambridge is located in Cambridgeshire, 50 miles north of London.
Cambridgeshire itself is a small English town with about 654.38 million residents.
There is a river in this town called "Jianhe" (Jianhe is also translated as "He Kang").
Jianhe is a small river winding from north to south. There are many bridges on Jianhe River, the most famous of which are Math Bridge, Gray Bridge and Sigh Bridge, hence the name Cambridge.
Cambridge University itself has no designated campus, no walls and no school card.
The vast majority of colleges, research institutes, libraries and laboratories are built on both sides of Jianhe River in Cambridge Town, in different locations in the town.
Cambridge has excellent roads and railways, and it is also close to the main airport in London.
library
There are 1 14 libraries in Cambridge.
The University Central Library is a legal depository library with a collection of 8 million volumes, and the library has the right to copy all books and periodicals published in Britain or Ireland.
Other academic colleges also have their own specialized libraries, which mainly collect publications of individual disciplines.
The library of the college is interdisciplinary in nature, mainly assisting undergraduates to learn.
Some ancient university libraries also collect books and periodicals with a long history. For example, the library of Trinity College has 200,000 books 1 published 800 years ago, while the library of Corpus Christi College has more than 600 medieval manuscripts, the largest number in the world.