Cambridge University
Newton's academic home
Cambridge University is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious universities, located in Cambridge, England and founded in 1209.
Along with Oxford, it forms the pair often called Oxbridge, representing elite British higher education.
Its constituent colleges—Trinity, King's, St John's—are often better known than the university itself: She studied law at Cambridge.
- Isaac NewtonLaws of motion formulator
- scholarLearned, studious person
- puntKick before landing
- collegesHigher learning institutions
- matriculationFormal university admission process
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- British InstitutionsBritish Museum, British Library, Bank of England, House of Lords, House of Commons
- CambridgeKing's College, Trinity College, punting, colleges, Corpus Christi
- European cultural institutionsLouvre, British Museum, Uffizi, Prado, Vatican Museums
- World UniversitiesOxford, Sorbonne, McGill
- OxbridgeOxford, Oxbridge, Exeter, Hertford, Lincoln
- East AngliaNorwich, Ipswich, Sandringham, Woodbridge, Boudicca
Cambridge UniversityOxford University
England's oldest academic institution
Cambridge Universityschool of hard knocks
Education through suffering
self-taught · autodidact · street smarts · vocational training · apprenticeship
Cambridge Universitycommunity college
Two-year public institution
public university · state school · polytechnic · night school · correspondence course