"The University of Cambridge (lawfully The Chancellor, Masters, as well as Scholars of the College of Cambridge) is a collegiate study college in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Founded in 1209 and also gave an imperial charter by King Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking globe as well as the globe's fourth-oldest surviving college. The university outgrew an organization of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a disagreement with the townspeople. [12] Both 'old colleges' share numerous usual attributes as well as are typically described collectively as 'Oxbridge'. The history as well as impact of the College of Cambridge have actually made it one of the most respected colleges on the planet.

Cambridge is developed from a selection of institutions that include 31 semi-autonomous constituent Colleges and over 100 scholastic departments organised into 6 institutions. Cambridge University Press, a department of the university, is the globe's oldest posting home and also the second-largest university press worldwide. Cambridge Analysis, additionally a division of the college, is just one of the globe's leading checking out bodies and gives analysis to over 8 million learners internationally each year. The college also runs 8 social as well as clinical galleries, including the Fitzwilliam Gallery, along with a botanic garden. Cambridge's libraries, of which there are 116, hold a total amount of about 16 million publications, around nine numerous which are in Cambridge College Library, a lawful deposit library. The college is residence to, but independent of, the Cambridge Union - the globe's oldest debating culture. The college is carefully connected to the growth of the high-tech business cluster called 'Silicon Fen'. It is the central member of Cambridge College Health Partners, a scholastic health scientific research centre based around the Cambridge Biomedical University.

In the fiscal year finishing 31 July 2019, the central college, excluding colleges, had a complete earnings of ₤ 2.192 billion, of which ₤ 592.4 million was from research study grants and agreements. At the end of the same fiscal year, the central university as well as colleges together had a mixed endowment of over ₤ 6.9 billion as well as overall combined internet assets (omitting 'immaterial' historic properties) of ₤ 12.569 billion. By both endowment dimension as well as consolidated possessions, Cambridge is the richest university in the United Kingdom.

Cambridge is rated the globe's second best college by the Times College World University Rankings, placed 3rd around the world by Academic Ranking of World Colleges, sixth by QS, as well as 7th by US Information. Cambridge was rated No. 10 in the 2016 and also 2018 Nature Index Annual Tables, which measure the largest factors to documents published in 82 leading scientific journals. According to the Times College ranking, nothing else institution in the world places in the leading 10 for as several subjects. It is a member of numerous organizations and also kinds part of the 'gold triangle' of English universities.

The university has actually educated lots of notable graduates, including noteworthy mathematicians, researchers, politicians, legal representatives, thinkers, writers, actors, majesties and also various other presidents. As of October 2019, 120 Nobel Laureates, 11 Area Medalists, 7 Turing Honor champions and 14 British Prime Ministers have been associated with Cambridge as students, graduates, faculty or study team. University graduates have actually won 194 Olympic medals."