Top 20 UK universities in 2011
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China.org.cn, February 1, 2012
University of Cambridge （劍橋大學(xué)）
World Rank: 5 Total score: 70.0
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Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is one of the world's oldest universities and leading academic centers. It comprises 31 colleges and over 150 departments, faculties, schools and other institutions for some 12,000 undergraduate and 6,000 postgraduate students.
With the River Cam flowing through, Cambridge is famed for the architecture of its historic colleges but also for its wealth of modern research and teaching facilities. The university's reputation for outstanding academic achievement is known worldwide and reflects the intellectual achievement of its students as well as the world-class original research carried out by the staff of the university and its colleges.
Some of the world's most significant scientific breakthroughs have occurred at the university, including the splitting of the atom, invention of the jet engine and the discoveries of stem cells, plate tectonics, pulsars and the structure of DNA. From Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking, the university has nurtured some of history's greatest minds and has produced more Nobel Prize winners than any other U.K. institution with more than 80 laureates.
Cambridge's great libraries and collections housed in eight world-class museums and in the colleges are scholarly resources of outstanding international significance.
Address: The Old Schools, Trinity Lane Cambridge, GB, CB2 1TN
Website: http://www.cam.ac.uk/
