Cambridge

About it:
One of the better universities in the world, is the second oldest university in England and the fourth oldest in Europe.In homage to its educational excellence, Cambridge became a city that is home to Harvard University in the United States - were the pioneers of Harvard alumni of Cambridge.


General data:

• Motto: Hinc lucem et pocula sacra (Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts Non-literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge)
• Type: Public
• Chancellor: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh

Location:
Cambridge, England, UK.

Foundation:
1209.

Founders:
Scholars leaving Oxford.

Highlights:

• The Cambridge Mathematical Tripos was competitive and helped produce some of the most famous names in British science, including James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and Lord Rayleigh.
• Many of the most important scientific discoveries and revolutions were made by Cambridge alumni.
• affiliates of the University of Cambridge have won between 84 and 87 Nobel prizes, more than any other institution according to some counts.  
• The webcam was also invented at Cambridge University, somewhat infamously, as a means for scientists to avoid interrupting their research and going all the way down the to the laboratory dining room only to be disappointed by an empty coffee pot.

Famous alumni:
Sir Isaac Newton; Sir Francis Bacon; Charles Darwin; Niels Bohr; J.J. Thompson; Stephen Hawking; Willian Fox Talbot; Alfred Marshall; Emma Thompson; Rachel Weisz; Sacha Baron Cohen;

Curious facts:

• Some of the names of places in Cambridge are very strange to an outsider ( for example a park called Christ's Pieces).
• Is the second oldest university in England.

Classification:
Always is in the list of the 10 best universities in the world.

Benefits for the Student:
Cambridge is the university where many of the gretest mathematical of the history have studed, and is one of the most respect universities in the world.