university of Cambridge rankings

University rankings

There are also internal ratings for classifying the different schools performance by undergraduate students Tripos examinations. One is the list of the Tompkins Table, which is published annually by The Independent.

College Rankings of the University of Cambridge

College Rankings of the University of Cambridge

In different rankings and different years, Cambridge always among the first few in the UK, and also among the best universities in the world.

Internationally, the university ranks among the top ten in many university rankings. The QS World University Rankings collaborated with the U.S. News & World Report has considered the second in its 2012 rankings. But had topped its ranking in the previous two years. Cambridge is ranked seventh in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2012-13). Meanwhile, ARWU (2012) sees the fifth worldwide. In the ranking of the Guardian newspaper in 2012, Cambridge pulled ahead of Oxford to secure 1st place in the ranking, Cambridge had overtaken Oxford in philosophy, law, politics, theology, maths, classics, anthropology and modern languages.

A 2006 Newsweek ranking which combined elements of the THES-QS and ARWU rankings with other factors that purportedly evaluated "openness and diversity" of the institution overall indicated that Cambridge was ranked sixth in the world in general.

In the Guide to the 2008 Sunday Times University, Cambridge was ranked first for 11 consecutive years since the first publication of the guide in 1998. In 2008 times Good University Guide, Cambridge covered 37 of 61 thematic guide tables, including Law, Medicine, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics and Chemistry and has the best record on research, entry standards and graduate destinations amongst universities the UK. Cambridge was also awarded the University of the Year award.

In the 2009 Times Good University Guide Subject Rankings, Cambridge ranked top (or joint top) in 34 of the 42 subjects offered. The overall ranking placed Cambridge in second behind Oxford. The 2009 Guardian University Guide Rankings also placed Cambridge second in the UK behind Oxford.

In 2010, according to University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP), is the second university in the UK and 11th university in the world.

Academic profile of the university of Cambridge

Academic profile of the university of Cambridge

Research

Cambridge University has research departments and teaching faculties in most academic disciplines, and spends around £ 650 million a year for research. All research and lectures are conducted by university departments. The colleges are in charge of giving or arranging most supervisions, student accommodation, and funding of the activities of most studies. During the 1990s Cambridge added a substantial number of new specialist research laboratories on several University sites of the city, and major expansion continues on several sites.

Cambridge is a member of the Russell Group, a network of research-led British universities, the Coimbra Group, an association of leading European universities, the European League of Research Universities, and the International Alliance of Research Universities. It is also considered part of the "Golden Triangle", a geographical concentration of UK university research.

Cambridge has a research partnership with MIT in the United States: the Cambridge-MIT Institute.

Libraries and museums the University of Cambridge

Libraries and museums the University of Cambridge

The university has 114 libraries. The Library of the University of Cambridge is the central research library, which has more than 8 million volumes. It is a legal deposit library, therefore, has the right to request a free copy of every book published in the UK and Ireland. In addition to the University Library and its dependents, every faculty has a specialized library, for example, Seeley Historical Library of History at the College has more than 100,000 books. In addition, each college has a library and partly for the purpose of undergraduate education, and colleges often possess many early books and manuscripts in a separate library. For example Trinity College's Wren Library has over 200,000 books printed before 1800, while the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College has one of the largest collections of medieval manuscripts in the world, with over 600 manuscripts.

Cambridge University operates eight arts, cultural and scientific museums, and a botanic garden:

• The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum

• Patio boiler is a contemporary art gallery

• The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge houses the collections of local antiques University, together with archaeological and ethnographic pieces worldwide

• The Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge hosts a wide variety of zoological specimens from around the world and is known for its iconic finback whale skeleton hanging outside. This museum also has specimens collected by Charles Darwin

• The Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge

• The Whipple Museum of the History of Science

• The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences is the geology museum of the University

• The Polar Museum, part of the Scott Polar Research Institute, which is dedicated to Captain Scott and his men, and focuses on the exploration of the polar regions.

• The Botanical Garden of the University of Cambridge is the botanical garden of the University, created in 1831