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The 2008 film The History Boys is about a group of boys applying to study history at Cambridge and Oxford. In the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Sherlock Holmes is shown meeting his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, in Moriarty's office with a brief stock shot establishing it as King's College, where Moriarty is a professor.
Peterhouse is the oldest constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.Peterhouse has around 300 undergraduate and 175 graduate students, and 54 fellows.
With an acceptance rate of approximately 6.3%, the Churchill Scholarship is less selective than the Marshall, Rhodes, Gates Cambridge and Mitchell scholarships (acceptance rates 3.3%, [8] 3.7%, [9] 1.6%, and 4% [10] respectively), however, significantly fewer institutions are allowed to nominate candidates for the Churchill Scholarship (presently 110 institutions [11] as compared to at least ...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation established the Gates Cambridge Scholarships in 2000 with a $210 million donation to support outstanding graduate students' study at the University of Cambridge. [2] The gift is the largest single donation to a British university. [3] [4] The Gates Cambridge Trust's endowment is valued at £333.9 million as ...
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879.In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard College.The college was named for the early Harvard benefactor Anne Mowlson (née Radcliffe) and was one of the Seven Sisters colleges.
A chart of the Tompkins Table from 1997 to 2019. 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.
The History Faculty is one of the largest history departments in the world with well over a hundred faculty members. Each academic year a new intake more than two hundred undergraduates is admitted and the Faculty also has more than 450 graduate students studying for masters degrees and the PhD.
Magdalene College (/ ˈ m ɔː d l ɪ n / MAWD-lin) [7] is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [8] The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene.