Oxbridge Academic Programs - The Cambridge Tradition
A charming medieval market town that grew from an ancient Roman settlement, Cambridge represents an unbroken tradition of scholarly excellence stretching back 800 years.
The University dates from the year 1209, when a group of students fled riots in Oxford to pursue their intellectual work in the sanctuary of Cambridge. Today the University consists of more than 30 different colleges and halls.
Cambridge enjoys a centuries-old reputation as a world leader in scientific research. Cambridge scholars have included physicists Sir Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking; naturalist Charles Darwin; and Watson and Crick, discoverers of the DNA double helix. Such scholars have won more Nobel Prizes than those at
any other university in the world.
Cambridge has also nurtured many great writers such as Francis Bacon, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Lord Tennyson, as well as 20th-century figures like E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, and
Sylvia Plath.
The aura of human achievement lives on in every courtyard and street. Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, participants come to adore Cambridge where “every spot is hallowed by the feet of Piety and Genius.”
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