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Colleges of the University of Cambridge

This is a list of the colleges within the University of Cambridge. These colleges are the primary source of accommodation for undergraduates and graduates at the University and at the undergraduate level have responsibility for admitting students and organising their tuition. [Cite web | url = http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/colleges/role.html | title = Role of the Colleges | accessdate = 2008-03-27 | publisher = University of Cambridge] They also provide funding and/or accommodation for some of the senior research posts in the University.

The University of Cambridge has 31 colleges,Cite web | url = http://www.cam.ac.uk/colleges/ | title = The Colleges of the University | publisher = University of Cambridge | accessdate = 2008-03-26] of which Peterhouse is the oldest, founded in 1284. [Cite web | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/40871.stm | title = Ghost sightings haunt Cambridge college | date =1997-12-19 | accessdate = 2008-03-26 | publisher = BBC News] The newest college of Cambridge University is Robinson, founded in 1977. [Cite web | url = http://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/about/ | title = About Robinson College | accessdate = 2008-03-26 | publisher = Robinson College, Cambridge] Of all the Cambridge colleges, three admit only women, those of Murray Edwards, Newnham and Lucy Cavendish, while the remaining 28 are mixed. [Cite web | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3188136.stm | title = Students back women's colleges | publisher = BBC News | accessdate = 2008-03-26 | date = 2003-10-13] Darwin was the first college to admit both men and women, while Churchill, Clare and King's were the first previously all-male colleges to admit female undergraduates in 1972, with Magdalene being the last in 1988. [Cite web | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,976477,00.html | title = Obituary - Professor Sir Bernard Williams| publisher = The Guardian | accessdate = 2008-03-26 | date = 2003-06-13] Two colleges admit only postgraduates, both Clare Hall and Darwin,Cite web | url = http://www.cam.ac.uk/colleges/addresses.html | title = University of Cambridge - The Colleges - Contact information | publisher = University of Cambridge | accessdate = 2008-03-26] and four more admit mainly mature students or graduate students: Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish, St Edmund's and Wolfson. [Cite web | url = http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/dpp/2007010802 | title = Cambridge University seeks mature students
publisher=University of Cambridge | accessdate = 2008-03-26 | date = 2007-01-05] Some colleges are traditionally strong in a particular subject or subjects; for example Churchill has a bias towards the sciences. [Cite web | url = http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/the_college/info/ | title = Information about Churchill College | accessdate = 2008-03-26 | date = 2007-09-29 | publisher = Churchill College, Cambridge]

Colleges

"Key: U–undergraduates, P–postgraduates."

There are also several theological colleges in Cambridge (for example Westcott House, Westminster College, Wesley House and Ridley Hall) that are affiliated with the university through the Cambridge Theological Federation. These colleges, while not officially part of the University of Cambridge, operate programmes that are either validated by or are taught on behalf of either the University or Anglia Ruskin University. [Cite web | url = http://www.theofed.cam.ac.uk/institutes.html | title = Institutes and Centres in the Federation - Member Institutes | accessdate = 2008-03-27 | publisher = Cambridge Theological Federation]

Former colleges

The above list does not include several former colleges that no longer exist. These include:
*Buckingham College, founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hall, refounded as Magdalene in 1542. [Cite web | url = http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/about/history/early-days.html | title = The Early Days | publisher = Magdalene College, Cambridge | accessdate = 2008-03-27]
*"Clare Hall" was the name of Clare College between 1338 and 1856. Clare College founded a new college named Clare Hall in 1966.
*King's Hall, founded in 1317, and combined with Michaelhouse to form Trinity College in 1546.Cite web | url = http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=20 | title = Historical Overview | publisher = Trinity College, Cambridge | accessdate = 2008-03-27]
*Michaelhouse, founded in 1324, and combined with King's Hall to form Trinity College in 1546.
*Gonville Hall, founded in 1348, and re-founded in 1557 as Gonville and Caius College. [Cite web | url = http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/college/past/index.php | title = Past - Introduction - Beginnings | accessdate = 2008-03-27]
*God's House, founded in 1437, and re-founded in 1505 as Christ's College. [Cite web | url = http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/info/history.html | title = College History | accessdate = 2008-03-27 | publisher = Christ's College, Cambridge]
*Cavendish College, founded in 1873, a failed attempt to allow poorer students to sit the Tripos examinations, whose buildings were bought by Homerton in 1895. [Cite web | url = http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/Coll-Dates-Cam.html | title = Cambridge Colleges Foundation Dates | publisher = Queens' College, Cambridge | accessdate = 2008-03-27] [Cite web | url = http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/teaching/library/archive.html | title = Homerton College Archive | accessdate = 2008-03-27 | publisher = Homerton College, Cambridge]
*University College, founded 1965, and re-founded in 1972 as Wolfson College
*University Hall, founded 1326, refounded as Clare Hall in 1338, renamed as Clare College in 1856.
*New Hall, founded 1954, and re-founded in 2008 as Murray Edwards College

ee also

*List of Oxbridge sister colleges
*List of fictional Cambridge colleges
*Oxbridge scarf colours

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