University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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Reputation rank: 3
Overall Reputation score: 80.7
Reputation for teaching: 82.7
Reputation for research: 79.7
Cambridge alumni loom large in the making of the modern world: Newton on laws and motion; Rutherford splitting the atom; Darwin on evolution; Turing's prototypical computer; Crick and Watson with DNA. Founded in 1209 by Oxford scholars who quit after a dispute with the local citizenry, Cambridge now employs more than 8,500 staff and has over 18,300 students.