Colleges of the University of Cambridge

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The University of Cambridge is composed of 31 colleges in addition to the academic departments and administration of the central university.

Until the mid-19th century, both Cambridge and Oxford comprised a group of colleges with a small central university administration, rather than universities in the common sense. Cambridge's colleges are communities of students, academics and staff – an environment in which generations and academic disciplines are able to mix, with both students and fellows experiencing "the breadth and excellence of a top University at an intimate level".{{Cite web|last=Davison|first=Tim|date=2013-01-31|title=Colleges and University: a complex relationship|url=https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/colleges-and-university-a-complex-relationship|access-date=2021-06-13|website=Cambridge University|df=dmy-all|archive-date=13 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613152958/https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/features/colleges-and-university-a-complex-relationship|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last1=Clarence-Smith |first1=Louisa |last2=Jones |first2=Freya |date=2023-03-03 |title=Author who claimed to be professor at Oxford and Cambridge loses academic visitor status |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/03/author-who-claimed-professor-oxford-cambridge-loses-academic/ |access-date=2023-03-04 |issn=0307-1235 |archive-date=10 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810230034/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/03/author-who-claimed-professor-oxford-cambridge-loses-academic/ |url-status=live }}

Cambridge colleges provide most of the accommodation for undergraduates and postgraduates at the university. At the undergraduate level they have responsibility for admitting students to the university, providing pastoral support, and organising elements of their tuition, though lectures and examinations are organised by the faculties and departments of the central university. All degrees are awarded by the university itself, not the colleges, and all students study for the same course regardless of which college they attend.{{Cite web | url = http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/colleges/role.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023055509/http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/colleges/role.html | archive-date = 23 October 2007 | title = Role of the Colleges | access-date = 27 March 2008 | publisher = University of Cambridge}} For postgraduate students, research is conducted centrally in the faculties, departments and other university-affiliated research centres, though the colleges provide a central social and intellectual hub for students.

Colleges provide a range of facilities and services to their members in addition to accommodation,{{Cite web |last=Withworth |first=Alan |title=Student Accommodation In Cambridge Colleges: An Expert Guide |date=23 October 2023 |url=https://www.studentgoodguide.com/accommodation/student-accommodation-cambridge-colleges/ |access-date=6 November 2023 |archive-date=6 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106220337/https://www.studentgoodguide.com/accommodation/student-accommodation-cambridge-colleges/ |url-status=live }} including: catering, library facilities, extracurricular societies, and sporting teams. Much of sporting life at Cambridge is centred around college teams and inter-collegiate competition in Cuppers. Student activity is typically organised through separate common rooms for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Another important element of collegiate life is formal hall, which range in frequency from weekly to every night of the week during Full Term.

Colleges also provide funding, accommodation, or both, for some of the academic posts in the university, with the majority of Cambridge academics being a fellow of a college in addition to their faculty/departmental role. Fellows may therefore hold college positions in addition to their academic posts at the university: these include roles such as Tutor (responsible for pastoral support), Director of Studies (responsible for academic oversight of students taking a particular subject), Dean (responsible for discipline among college members), Senior Tutor (responsible for the college's overall academic provision), or Head of college ('Head of House').

Colleges are self-governed charities in their own right, with their own endowments and possessions.

"Old" and "new" colleges

The University of Cambridge has 31 colleges,{{Cite web | url = http://www.cam.ac.uk/colleges/ | title = The Colleges of the University | publisher = University of Cambridge | year = 2009 | access-date = 6 April 2009 | archive-date = 4 April 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090404070207/http://www.cam.ac.uk/colleges/ | url-status = live }} founded between the 13th and 20th centuries. No colleges were founded between 1596 (Sidney Sussex College) and 1800 (Downing College), which allows the colleges to be distinguished into two groups according to foundation date:

the 16 "old" colleges, founded between 1284 and 1596, and
the 15 "new" colleges, founded between 1800 and 1977.

The oldest college is Peterhouse, founded in 1284,{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/40871.stm | title = Ghost sightings haunt Cambridge college | date = 19 December 1997 | access-date = 26 March 2008 | work = BBC News | archive-date = 23 February 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090223064405/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/40871.stm | url-status = live }} and the newest is Robinson, founded in 1977.{{Cite web | url = http://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/about/ | title = About Robinson College | access-date = 26 March 2008 | publisher = Robinson College, Cambridge | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080409124402/http://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/about/ | archive-date = 9 April 2008 | url-status = dead }} Homerton, which was first founded in the eighteenth century as a dissenting academy (and later teacher training college), attained full college status in 2010.

Six of the "new" colleges (Churchill, Fitzwilliam, Girton, Lucy Cavendish, Murray Edwards and St Edmund's) are located on Castle Hill and are thus sometimes referred to as "hill colleges".{{cite web|url=https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/colleges-guide-hill-colleges|title=Undergraduate Colleges Guide: Castle Hill and Huntingdon Road|website=University of Cambridge|access-date=28 January 2025}}

Restrictions on entry

All 16 of the "old" colleges and 8 of the 15 "new" ones admit both male and female students as both undergraduates and postgraduates, without any age restrictions. Seven colleges restrict entry by sex, or by age of undergraduates, or admit only postgraduates:

Murray Edwards and Newnham admit only women. ;{{Cite web|url=https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/college-community/making-difference/history|title=History {{pipe}} Lucy Cavendish|access-date=14 December 2020|archive-date=30 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130143221/https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/college-community/making-difference/history|url-status=live}}
Clare Hall and Darwin admit only postgraduates;
Hughes Hall, St Edmund's and Wolfson admit only mature students and postgraduates.{{Cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/dpp/2007010802 |title=Cambridge University seeks mature students |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=26 March 2008 |date=5 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221125051/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/dpp/2007010802 |archive-date=21 February 2009 }}

No colleges are all-male, although most originally were. Darwin, founded in 1964, was the first mixed college, while in 1972 Churchill, Clare and King's colleges were the first previously all-male colleges to admit women, whilst King's only accepted students from Eton College until 1865. The last all-male college to become mixed was Magdalene, in 1988.{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,3604,976477,00.html | title = Obituary - Professor Sir Bernard Williams | newspaper = The Guardian | access-date = 8 May 2009 | date = 13 June 2003 | location = London | first = Jane | last = O'Grady | archive-date = 27 September 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230927184431/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jun/13/guardianobituaries.obituaries | url-status = live }} In 1973 Hughes Hall became the first all-female college to admit men, and Girton first admitted men in 1979. Lucy Cavendish only admitted female mature students and postgraduates until 2021.

Newnham also places restrictions on the admission of staff members, allowing only women to become fellows of the college. Murray Edwards does not place this restriction on fellows.

Architectural influence

The Cambridge and Oxford colleges have served as an architectural inspiration for Collegiate Gothic architecture, used by a number of American universities including Princeton University, Cornell University, University of Chicago, and Washington University in St. Louis since the late nineteenth century.{{Cite web|url=http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Otherdocs/setting.html|title=Princeton Architectural History|website=etcweb.princeton.edu|access-date=19 August 2019|archive-date=17 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917015219/http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Otherdocs/setting.html|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://wustl.edu/about/campuses/danforth-campus/|title=Danforth Campus|website=Washington University in St. Louis|language=en-US|access-date=19 August 2019|archive-date=16 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216082207/https://wustl.edu/about/campuses/danforth-campus/|url-status=live}}

List of colleges

class="wikitable sortable sticky-header sort-under-center" ! rowspan=2 style="width:8em" \| College (with arms and scarf{{nbsp}}colours){{Cite web\|url=http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/Colours/index.html \|title=Scarf Colours of the Cambridge Colleges \|access-date=26 March 2008 \|publisher=Queens' College, Cambridge \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315093824/http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/Colours/index.html \|archive-date=15 March 2008 \|url-status=dead }} ! rowspan=2 {{vert header\|stp=1\|va=middle\|Founded{{efn\|Principal date given is the date of establishment acknowledged by the university.{{Cite web \|url=https://map.cam.ac.uk/colleges/ \|title=College A-Z \|website=Colleges and Departments \|publisher=University of Cambridge \|access-date=8 May 2022 \|archive-date=3 May 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503004649/https://map.cam.ac.uk/colleges/ \|url-status=live }} Additional later dates are explained by further footnotes.}}}} ! rowspan=2 width=150\|Head of House ! colspan=3\|Student numbers ! rowspan=2 {{Vert header\|stp=1\|va=middle\|Endowment (2023)}} ! rowspan=2 style=""width:4em" \|Net assets (2023) ! rowspan=2 \|Assets per student (2019) ! rowspan=2 {{vert header\|stp=1\|Abbreviation{{cite journal \|author=University of Cambridge \|date=6 March 2019 \|title=Notice by the Editor \|url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2018-19/special/05/section1.shtml \|journal=Cambridge University Reporter \|series=Special Numbers for the Academic Year 2018–19 \|issue=5 \|pages=1 \|access-date=20 March 2019 \|archive-date=17 October 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017051509/https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2018-19/special/05/section1.shtml \|url-status=live }} (and short form)}} ! rowspan=2 class=unsortable\|Notes
{{vert header\|stp=1\|va=middle\|Undergraduates}} ! {{vert header\|stp=1\|va=middle\|Postgraduates}} ! {{vert header\|stp=1\|va=middle\|Total{{Cite web\|url=https://www.information-hub.admin.cam.ac.uk/university-profile/student-numbers/student-numbers-college\|title=Student Numbers by College\|date=21 March 2018\|access-date=2 April 2020\|archive-date=27 July 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727070301/https://www.information-hub.admin.cam.ac.uk/university-profile/student-numbers/student-numbers-college\|url-status=live}}}}
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Christ's" \|File:Christs shield.png Christ's {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Christ's}} \|1505 \| data-sort-value="McDonald of Salford, Lord" \|Lord McDonald of Salford{{Cite web \|title=The Master {{!}} Christs College Cambridge \|url=https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/master \|access-date=2022-09-14 \|website=www.christs.cam.ac.uk \|archive-date=14 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914201517/https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/master \|url-status=live }} Master since 2022 \|align=right \|433 \|align=right \|256 \|align=right \|689 \|align=right \|£122{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{cite web \|title=Annual Report and Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/2022-23-christs-college-annual-report-and-accounts-v04.pdf \|accessdate=17 June 2024 \|work=Christ's College Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£244{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£287{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|CHR \|Re-foundation of {{shy\|Gods\|house}} ({{abbr\|est.\|established}}{{nbsp}}1439)
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Churchill" \|File:Churchill College Crest.png Churchill {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Churchill}} \|1960 (1966){{efn\|name="college-status"}} \| data-sort-value="Peacock, Sharon" \|Professor Sharon Peacock{{cite news \|title=Churchill College announces 8th Master\|url=https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/news-and-events/churchill-college-announces-8th-master/ \|access-date=10 October 2023 \|work=Churchill College, Cambridge \|date=10 October 2023 \|archive-date=1 December 2024 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201145951/https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/news-and-events/churchill-college-announces-8th-master/\|url-status=dead }} Master since 2024 \|align=right \|499 \|align=right \|346 \|align=right \|845 \|align=right \|£37{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Report and Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RCCA-22.23-Fully-Signed.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Churchill College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£196{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£215{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|CHU \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Clare" \|File:ClareCollegeCrest.svg Clare {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Clare}} \|1326 (1336){{efn\|name="re-foundation"\|Date of re-foundation by later benefactor.}} \| data-sort-value="Minghella, Loretta" \|Loretta Minghella{{cite news \|title=Loretta Minghella OBE (1981) installed as Master of Clare \|url=https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/loretta-minghella-installed-master/index.html \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Clare College, Cambridge \|date=1 October 2021 \|archive-date=22 October 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022040200/https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/loretta-minghella-installed-master/index.html \|url-status=live }} Master since 2021 \|align=right \|519 \|align=right \|289 \|align=right \|808 \|align=right \|£187.5{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Clare College Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2024 \|url=https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-12/Clare%20College%20Financial%20Statements%202024.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Clare College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£336{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£350{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|CL \|Formerly University Hall, then Clare Hall.
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Clare Hall" \|File:Clarehall shield.png Clare Hall {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Clare Hall}} \|1966 (1984){{efn\|name="royal-charter-college"\|Date of royal charter, and of recognition by the university as a constituent college.}} \| data-sort-value="Short, C. Allen" \|C. Alan Short{{cite news \|title=Professor C. Alan Short Elected as President \|url=https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/02-12-2019/professor-c-alan-short-elected-president \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Clare Hall, Cambridge \|date=2 December 2019 \|archive-date=16 October 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016155738/https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/02-12-2019/professor-c-alan-short-elected-president \|url-status=dead }} President since 2020 \|align=right \|0 \|align=right \|249 \|align=right \|249 \|align=right \|£21{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ending 30 June 2023 \|url=https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Clare-Hall-Signed-Accounts-2023-Copy.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Clare Hall, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£42{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£140{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|CLH \|align="left"\|{{shy\|Post\|graduate}}-only.
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Corpus Christi" \|File:Arms of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.svg Corpus Christi {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Corpus Christi}} \|1352 \|data-sort-value="Kelly, Christopher" \|Christopher Kelly{{cite news \|title=Professor Christopher Kelly's Admission as Master of Corpus \|url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/professor-christopher-kellys-admission-master-corpus \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Corpus Christi College, Cambridge \|date=4 October 2018 \|archive-date=13 August 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813124930/https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/professor-christopher-kellys-admission-master-corpus \|url-status=live }} Master since 2018 \|align=right \|294 \|align=right \|259 \|align=right \|553 \|align=right \|£100{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Report and Financial Statement 22-23 \|url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/230630_corpus_christi_college_-_rccas_30-06-2023_signed.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2023 \|website=Corpus Christi College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£239{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£419{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|CC (Corpus) \|Formerly St Benet's College.
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Darwin" \|File:Darwin College Arms.svg Darwin {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Darwin}} \| 1964 (1976){{efn\|name="royal-charter-college"}} \| data-sort-value="Rands, Mike" \|Mike Rands Master since 2018 \|align=right \|0 \|align=right \|755 \|align=right \|755 \|align=right \|£25{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Darwin-Accounts-all-signed-2023.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Darwin College Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£82{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£99{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|DAR \|align="left"\|{{shy\|Post\|graduate}}-only.
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Downing" \|File:Downing Crest.svg Downing {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Downing}} \|1800 \| data-sort-value="Bookbinder, Alan" \|Graham Virgo{{Cite web \|last= \|date=2023-10-02 \|title=Downing welcomes Professor Graham Virgo KC (Hon) as the 19th Master \|url=https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/news/downing-welcomes-professor-graham-virgo-kc-hon-19th-master \|access-date=2023-10-06 \|website=Downing College Cambridge \|language=en \|archive-date=16 October 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016120151/https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/news/downing-welcomes-professor-graham-virgo-kc-hon-19th-master \|url-status=live }} Master since 2023 \|align=right \|463 \|align=right \|382 \|align=right \|845 \|align=right \|£44{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Financial Statement 2023 \|url=https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Accounts_2023.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2023 \|website=Downing College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£224{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£233{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|DOW \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Emmanuel" \|File:Emmanuel College Crest.svg Emmanuel {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Emmanuel}} \|1584 \| data-sort-value="Chambers, Doug" \|Doug Chalmers{{cite news \|title=Doug Chalmers elected as the next Master of Emmanuel \|url=https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/doug-chalmers-elected-as-the-next-master-of-emmanuel \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=For Staf \|publisher=University of Cambridge \|date=12 February 2021 \|archive-date=4 October 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004103516/https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/doug-chalmers-elected-as-the-next-master-of-emmanuel \|url-status=live }} Master since 2021 \|align=right \|512 \|align=right \|206 \|align=right \|718 \|align=right \|£34{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/about/documents/pdfs/RCCA%20-%2031st%20July%202023Final.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2023 \|website=Emmanuel College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£351{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£394{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|EM (Emma) \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Fitzwilliam" \|File:Fitzwilliam College shield.svg Fitzwilliam {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Fitzwilliam}} \|1869 (1966){{efn\|name="royal-charter-college"}} \| data-sort-value="Morgan of Huyton, Baroness" \|Baroness Morgan of Huyton{{cite news \|title=Baroness Morgan of Huyton appointed Master of Fitzwilliam College \|url=https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/news/baroness-morgan-huyton-appointed-master-fitzwilliam-college \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge \|date=27 Feb 2019 \|archive-date=21 April 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421042105/https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/news/baroness-morgan-huyton-appointed-master-fitzwilliam-college \|url-status=dead }} Master since 2019 \|align=right \|486 \|align=right \|413 \|align=right \|899 \|align=right \|£77{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=College Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-02/Fitzwilliam%20College%20Annual%20Report%20and%20Financial%20Statements%20For%20the%20Year%20Ended%2031st%20July%202023%20%28FINAL%29.pdf \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240618212203/https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-02/Fitzwilliam%20College%20Annual%20Report%20and%20Financial%20Statements%20For%20the%20Year%20Ended%2031st%20July%202023%20(FINAL).pdf \|archive-date=18 June 2024 \|access-date=18 June 2024 \|website=Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£155{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£151{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|F (Fitz) \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Girton" \|24px Girton {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Girton}} \|1869 (1924){{efn\|name="royal-charter"\|Date of royal charter.}} (1948){{efn\|name="college-status"}} \| data-sort-value="Kendall, Elisabeth" \|Elisabeth Kendall{{cite web \|title=Dr Elisabeth Kendall \|url=https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-elisabeth-kendall-elected-new-mistress-girton-college \|publisher=Girton College, Cambridge \|access-date=7 March 2022 \|archive-date=2 June 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602144522/https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-elisabeth-kendall-elected-new-mistress-girton-college \|url-status=live }} Mistress since 2022 \|align=right \|516 \|align=right \|292 \|align=right \|808 \|align=right \|£73{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Financial Statement 2023 \|url=https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-12/GirtonCollegeAccounts2023-Signed.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Girton College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£173{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£190{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|G \|Formerly female-only; mixed from 1976.
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Gonville and Caius" \|File:Gonville & Caius College Crest.svg Gonville and Caius {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Gonville and Caius}} \| 1348 (1557){{efn\|Date of royal charter re-founding Gonville Hall as Gonville and Caius College.}} \| data-sort-value="Rogerson, Pippa" \|Pippa Rogerson{{cite news \|last1=King \|first1=Katie \|title=Cambridge college names first female head in its 700-year history, and she's an international and company law lecturer \|url=https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/05/cambridge-college-names-first-female-head-in-its-700-year-history-and-shes-an-international-and-company-law-lecturer/ \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Legal Cheek \|date=24 May 2017 \|archive-date=27 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927131446/https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/05/cambridge-college-names-first-female-head-in-its-700-year-history-and-shes-an-international-and-company-law-lecturer/ \|url-status=live }} Master since 2018 \|align=right \|602 \|align=right \|247 \|align=right \|849 \|align=right \|£255{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts 2021/22 \|url=https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/accounts%2021-22.pdf \|access-date=June 27, 2024 \|website=Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£383{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£398{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|CAI (Caius) \|{{ubl\|Caius, {{shy\|pro\|nounced}} "keys".\|Formerly Gonville Hall.}}
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Homerton" \|24px Homerton {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Homerton}} \| 1768 (1976){{efn\|name="first-recognition"}} (2010){{efn\|name="royal-charter-college"}} \| data-sort-value="Woolley of Woodford, Lord" \|Lord Woolley of Woodford{{cite news \|last1=Mistlin \|first1=Alex \|title=Lord Woolley to become first black man to head Oxbridge college \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/31/lord-woolley-former-head-of-race-disparity-unit-to-be-principal-at-cambridge-university \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=The Guardian \|date=31 March 2021}} Principal since 2021 \|align=right \|615 \|align=right \|577 \|align=right \|1192 \|align=right \|£119{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Report and Financial Statement 2023 \|url=https://homerton.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-12/homerton_annual_report_and_financial_statement_signed.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Homerton College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£215{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£190{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|HO \|Originally mixed, then became women-only on move to Cambridge; returned to mixed from 1976.
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Hughes Hall" \|File:HughesHallShield.png Hughes Hall {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Hughes Hall}} \| 1885 (1949){{efn\|name="first-recognition"}} (2006){{efn\|name="royal-charter-college"}} \| data-sort-value="Bristow, Laurie" \|Sir Laurie Bristow{{cite news \|date=28 March 2022 \|title=Sir Laurie Bristow elected President of Hughes Hall \|work=Hughes Hall, Cambridge \|url=https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/about/news/sir-laurie-bristow-elected-president-of-hughes-hall/ \|access-date=13 October 2022 \|archive-date=13 October 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013185111/https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/about/news/sir-laurie-bristow-elected-president-of-hughes-hall/ \|url-status=live }} President since 2022 \|align=right \|150 \|align=right \|711 \|align=right \|861 \|align=right \|£8{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Financial Statement 2023 \|url=https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Hughes-Hall-2022-23-RCCA-Accounts-FINAL.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Hughes Hall College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£57{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£53{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|HH \|Mature-only.{{efn\|name=mature\|Mature-only colleges admit only postgraduate students or undergraduate students over the age of 21.}}
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Jesus" \|File:Jesus College (Cambridge) shield.svg Jesus {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Jesus 2-sided}} \| 1496 \|data-sort-value="Alleyne, Sonita" \|Sonita Alleyne{{cite news \|last1=Luxon \|first1=Sally \|title=Sonita Alleyne - the first female and black Master of any Oxbridge College \|url=https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/sonita-alleyne-jesus-college-master-17128168 \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Cambridgeshire Live \|date=27 October 2019 \|archive-date=7 April 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407165357/https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/sonita-alleyne-jesus-college-master-17128168 \|url-status=live }} Master since 2019 \|align=right \|513 \|align=right \|411 \|align=right \|924 \|align=right \|£236{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Reports and Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/annual_report_and_accounts_2023.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Jesus College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£375{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£373{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|JE \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="King's" \|File:Kingscollegearms-alternative.svg King's {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|King's}} \| 1441 \|data-sort-value="Tett, Gillian" \|Gillian Tett Provost since 2023 \|align=right \|402 \|align=right \|264 \|align=right \|726 \|align=right \|£300{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Accounts as at June 2023 \|url=https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/pdfviewer/48384 \|access-date=2024-03-14 \|website=King's College Cambridge \|language=en \|archive-date=14 March 2024 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314131322/https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/pdfviewer/48384 \|url-status=live }} \|align=right \|£451{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£621{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|K \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Lucy Cavendish" \|File:Lucy cav shield.png Lucy Cavendish {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Lucy Cavendish}} \|1965 (1997){{efn\|name="royal-charter-college"}} \|data-sort-value="Atkins, Madeleine" \|Dame Madeleine Atkins{{cite news \|title=Higher Education Boss Handed £550,000 In 'Golden Goodbye' \|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/higher-education-boss-handed-ps500000-in-golden-goodbye_uk_5b4f5d84e4b0de86f488e101 \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Huffington Post \|date=18 July 2018 \|archive-date=7 April 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407165358/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/higher-education-boss-handed-ps500000-in-golden-goodbye_uk_5b4f5d84e4b0de86f488e101 \|url-status=live }} President since 2018 \|align=right \|385 \|align=right \|544 \|align=right \|929 \|align=right \|£14{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/Final%20signed%20accounts%20for%20the%20web.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£50{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£102{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|LC (Lucy Cav, Lucy) \|Formerly mature-only,{{efn\|name="mature"}} and female-only; all-age from 2020, mixed from 2021.
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Magdalene" \|File:Magdalene college shield.svg Magdalene {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Magdalene}} \|1428 (1542){{efn\|Date of royal charter re-founding Buckingham College as Magdalene College.}} \|data-sort-value="Greenwood, Christopher" \|Sir Christopher Greenwood{{cite news \|title=BIICL Congratulates new master of Magdalene College \|url=https://www.biicl.org/newsitems/16373/biicl-congratulates-new-master-of-magdalene-college \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=British Institute of International and Comparative Law \|date=20 August 2019}} Master since 2020 \|align=right \|382 \|align=right \|190 \|align=right \|572 \|align=right \|£74{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Reports and Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/system/files/2023-10/magdalene_college_accounts_2022-23.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Magdalene College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£202{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£312{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|M \|{{ubl\|Magdalene, {{shy\|pro\|nounced}} "maudlin".\|Formerly {{shy\|Bucking\|ham}} College.}}
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Murray Edwards" \|24px Murray Edwards {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Murray Edwards}} \|1954 (1972){{efn\|name="royal-charter-college"}} (2011){{efn\|name=\|Date of supplemental royal charter re-founding New Hall as Murray Edwards College.}} \|data-sort-value="Byrne, Dorothy" \|Dorothy Byrne{{cite news \|title=Dorothy Byrne elected as next President of Murray Edwards College \|url=https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/news/dorothy-byrne-elected-next-president-murray-edwards-college \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Murray Edwards College, Cambridge \|date=16 December 2020 \|archive-date=20 November 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120222136/https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/news/dorothy-byrne-elected-next-president-murray-edwards-college \|url-status=live }} President since 2021 \|align=right \|376 \|align=right \|189 \|align=right \|565 \|align=right \|£54{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Financial Statement 2023 \|url=https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Annual%20Report%202023(1).pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Murray Edwards College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£118{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£186{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|MUR (Medwards) \|{{ubl\|Female students-only, mixed fellowship.\|Formerly New Hall.}}
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Newnham" \|File:Newnham crest.png Newnham {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Newnham}} \|1871 (1917){{efn\|name="royal-charter"}} (1957){{efn\|Date of supplemental royal charter, and of recognition by the university as a constituent college.}} \|data-sort-value="Rose, Alison" \|Alison Rose{{cite news \|title=Alison Rose becomes Principal of Newnham College \|url=https://newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news/alison-rose-becomes-principal-of-newnham-college/ \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Newnham College, Cambridge \|date=10 October 2019 \|archive-date=17 May 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517232327/https://newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news/alison-rose-becomes-principal-of-newnham-college/ \|url-status=live }} Principal since 2019 \|align=right \|416 \|align=right \|290 \|align=right \|706 \|align=right \|£74{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Financial Statement 2023 \|url=https://newn.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Newnham-College-Annual-Report-and-Financial-Statements-20230630-FULLY-SIGNED.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Newnham College, Cambridge\|date=13 February 2024 }} \|align=right \|£259{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£310{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|N \|align="left"\|Female-only.
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Pembroke" \|File:Pembroke College (Cambridge) shield.svg Pembroke {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Pembroke}} \|1347 \|data-sort-value="Smith of Finsbury, Lord" \|Lord Smith of Finsbury{{cite web \|title=Chairman and trustees \|url=https://www.artfund.org/about-us/meet-our-chairman-trustees \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|website=Art Fund \|archive-date=30 March 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330015306/https://www.artfund.org/about-us/meet-our-trustees \|url-status=live }} Master since 2015 \|align=right \|475 \|align=right \|285 \|align=right \|760 \|align=right \|£94{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Report and Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/2022-23_pembroke_college_rcca_signed.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Pembroke College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£302{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£341{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|PEM \|Formerly Pembroke Hall.
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Peterhouse" \|File:Peterhouse shield.svg Peterhouse {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Peterhouse}} \|1284 \|data-sort-value="Kendall, Bridget" \|Andy Parker{{Cite web \|title=News {{!}} Peterhouse \|url=https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/news2 \|access-date=2023-10-29 \|website=www.pet.cam.ac.uk \|archive-date=16 December 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216045901/https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/news2 \|url-status=live }} Master since 2023 \|align=right \|292 \|align=right \|178 \|align=right \|470 \|align=right \|£238.6{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Peterhouse Financial Statements for year ended June 30th \|url=https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/Year%20Ended%20June%202024.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Peterhouse College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£350{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£698{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|PET \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Queens'" \|File:Queens' College (Cambridge) shield.svg Queens' {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Queens'}} \| 1448 (1465){{efn\|name="re-foundation"}} \|data-sort-value="El-Erian, Mohamed A." \|Mohamed A. El{{nbh}}Erian{{cite news \|last1=Ablan \|first1=Jennifer \|title=El-Erian named new president of Queens' College, University of Cambridge \|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-funds-allianz-elerian-idUSKCN1SY1X8 \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Reuters \|date=28 May 2019 \|archive-date=7 April 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407165357/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-funds-allianz-elerian-idUSKCN1SY1X8 \|url-status=live }} President since 2020 \|align=right \|521 \|align=right \|500 \|align=right \|1021 \|align=right \|£120{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Queens' College, Cambridge Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30th June 2023 \|url=https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.queens.cam.ac.uk/files/downloads/accounts_annual_report_22-23.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Queens College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£154{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£156{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|Q \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Robinson" \|File:Robinson College Crest.svg Robinson {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Robinson}} \|1977 (1984){{efn\|name="college-status"\|Date of recognition by the university as a constituent college.}} \|data-sort-value="Heaton, Richard" \|Sir Richard Heaton{{cite news \|title=Robinson College welcomes its third Warden, Sir Richard Heaton \|url=https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/news/robinson-college-welcomes-its-third-warden-sir-richard-heaton \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Robinson College, Cambridge \|date=1 October 2021 \|archive-date=17 August 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817012953/https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/news/robinson-college-welcomes-its-third-warden-sir-richard-heaton \|url-status=live }} Warden since 2021 \|align=right \|412 \|align=right \|252 \|align=right \|664 \|align=right \|£30{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/assets/about/Robinson%20College%20Financial%20Statements%202023.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Robinson College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£117{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£140{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|R \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Saint Catharine's" \|File:St Catharine's College Crest - flat.svg St Catharine's {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|St Catharine's}} \|1473 \|data-sort-value="Benger, John" \|Sir John Benger Master since 2023 \|align=right \|481 \|align=right \|287 \|align=right \|768 \|align=right \|£74{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{cite web \|title=St Catharine's College, Cambridge Financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2023 \|url=https://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/College%20Signed%20Accounts%202023.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=St Catharine's College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£175{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£190{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|CTH (Catz) \| Formerly Catharine Hall.
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Saint Edmund's" \|File:StEdmund'sCrest.png St Edmund's {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|St Edmund's}} \| 1896 (1965){{efn\|name="first-recognition"}} (1998){{efn\|name="royal-charter-college"}} \|data-sort-value="Arnold, Catherine" \|Chris Young{{cite news \|date=11 March 2023 \|title=Professor Chris Young elected 16th Master of St Edmund’s College \|url=https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-chris-young-elected-16th-master-of-st-edmunds-college/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421075914/https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-chris-young-elected-16th-master-of-st-edmunds-college/ \|archive-date=21 April 2021\|access-date=20 November 2024 \|work=St Edmund's College}} Master since 2024 \|align=right \|121 \|align=right \|452 \|align=right \|573 \|align=right \|£19{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Financial Statement 2023 \|url=https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2022-23-St-Edmunds-College-FINAL.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=St Edmund's College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£44{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£71{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|ED (Eddie's) \|align="left"\|Mature-only.{{efn\|name=mature}}
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Saint John's" \|File:Johns shield.png St John's {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|St John's}} \| 1511 \|data-sort-value="Hancock, Heather" \|Heather Hancock{{cite news \|title=Heather Hancock appointed as Master of St John's College \|url=https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/heather-hancock-appointed-master-st-johns-college \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=St John's College, Cambridge \|date=4 December 2019 \|archive-date=11 August 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811152412/https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/heather-hancock-appointed-master-st-johns-college \|url-status=live }} Master since 2020 \|align=right \|658 \|align=right \|319 \|align=right \|977 \|align=right \|£674{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Report and Financial Statements 2023 \|url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=%2Faccounts-resource&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_objectiveId=A15016995&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_mvcRenderCommandName=%2Faccounts-and-annual-returns&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_organisationNumber=4032881 \|access-date=June 17, 2023 \|website=St John's College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£974{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£854{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|JN (John's) \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Selwyn" \|File:Selwyn College shield.svg Selwyn {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Selwyn}} \| 1882 (1883){{efn\|name="first-recognition"\|Date of first formal recognition by the university, but not yet as a constituent college.}} (1958){{efn\|name="college-status"}} \|data-sort-value="Mosey, Roger" \|Roger Mosey{{cite news \|last1=Plunkett \|first1=John \|title=Roger Mosey quits BBC to head Selwyn College, Cambridge \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jul/02/roger-mosey-quits-bbc-selwyn-college-cambridge \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=The Guardian \|date=2 July 2013}} Master since 2013 \|align=right \|419 \|align=right \|249 \|align=right \|668 \|align=right \|£55{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|date= \|title=Annual Report 2023 \|url=https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/assets/about/financial/Selwyn%20College%20Accounts%202022-23%20FINAL.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Selwyn College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£134{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£182 {{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|SE \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Sidney Sussex" \|File:Sidney Sussex College shield.svg Sidney Sussex {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Sidney Sussex}} \| 1596 \|data-sort-value="Burton, Martin" \|Martin Burton{{cite news \|date=29 November 2022 \|title=Professor Martin Burton elected as new Master \|work=Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge \|url=https://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/about-sidney/news/professor-martin-burton-elected-new-master \|access-date=13 September 2023 \|archive-date=13 September 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913060247/https://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/about-sidney/news/professor-martin-burton-elected-new-master \|url-status=live }} Master since 2023 \|align=right \|380 \|align=right \|247 \|align=right \|627 \|align=right \|£31{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Financial Statement 2023 \|url=https://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Financial%20Statements%20for%20yr%20to%2030%20June%202023-%20signed%20PEM.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£140{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£210{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|SID (Sidney) \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Trinity" \|File:Trinity College (Cambridge) shield.svg Trinity {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Trinity}} \| 1546 \|data-sort-value="Davies, Sally" \|Dame Sally Davies{{cite news \|title=Chief medical officer to become first female Trinity College master \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/08/england-chief-medical-officer-dame-sally-hughes-cambridge \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=The Guardian \|agency=Press Association \|date=8 February 2019}} Master since 2019 \|align=right \|722 \|align=right \|332 \|align=right \|1054 \|align=right \|£2,020{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Trinity College, Cambridge, Annual Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30th June 2023 \|url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/download/college-accounts-2023/?wpdmdl=41114&refresh=666fa4258f00e1718592549 \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Trinity College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£2,192{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£1,454{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|T \| Founded by merger of King's Hall ({{abbr\|est.\|established}}{{nbsp}}1317) and {{shy\|Michael\|house}} ({{abbr\|est.\|established}}{{nbsp}}1324).
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Trinity Hall" \|File:Trinity Hall Crest.png Trinity Hall {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Trinity Hall}} \| 1350 \| data-sort-value="Hockaday, Mary" \|Mary Hockaday{{Cite news \|date=21 September 2022 \|title=Mary Hockaday takes up post as Master \|work=Trinity Hall Cambridge \|url=https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/mary-hockaday-takes-up-post-as-master/ \|access-date=26 September 2022 \|archive-date=26 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926140040/https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/mary-hockaday-takes-up-post-as-master/ \|url-status=live }} Master since 2022 \|align=right \|376 \|align=right \|226 \|align=right \|602 \|align=right \|£89{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TH-Accounts-30Jun23.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Trinity Hall, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£389{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£532{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|TH (Tit Hall) \|
style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Wolfson" \|File:Wolfson College Crest.png Wolfson {{scarf/University of Cambridge\|Wolfson}} \|1965 (1977){{efn\|name="college-status"}} \|data-sort-value="Clarke, Jane" \|Jane Clarke{{cite news \|title=Jane Clarke 1st female president of Wolfson College \|url=https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/jane-clarke-1st-female-president-wolfson-college \|access-date=7 April 2022 \|work=Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry \|publisher=University of Cambridge \|date=12 June 2017 \|archive-date=17 May 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517232342/https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/jane-clarke-1st-female-president-wolfson-college \|url-status=live }} President since 2017 \|align=right \|180 \|align=right \|832 \|align=right \|1012 \|align=right \|£32{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|title=Annual Accounts 2023 \|url=https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-12/rcca_2022-23.pdf \|access-date=June 17, 2024 \|website=Wolfson College, Cambridge}} \|align=right \|£81{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£66{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \|W \|{{ubl\|Mature-only.{{efn\|name=mature}}\|Formerly University College.}}
class="sortbottom" ! colspan="3" \| Totals: \|align=right \|12,354 \|align=right \|10,893 \|align=right \|23,247 \|align=right \|£4,582{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£9,184{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£319{{abbr\|k\|thousand}} \| \|

class="wikitable sortable sticky-header sort-under-center"

! rowspan=2 style="width:8em" | College
(with arms and scarf{{nbsp}}colours){{Cite web|url=http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/Colours/index.html |title=Scarf Colours of the Cambridge Colleges |access-date=26 March 2008 |publisher=Queens' College, Cambridge |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315093824/http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/Colours/index.html |archive-date=15 March 2008 |url-status=dead }}

! rowspan=2 {{vert header|stp=1|va=middle|Founded{{efn|Principal date given is the date of establishment acknowledged by the university.{{Cite web |url=https://map.cam.ac.uk/colleges/ |title=College A-Z |website=Colleges and Departments |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=8 May 2022 |archive-date=3 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503004649/https://map.cam.ac.uk/colleges/ |url-status=live }} Additional later dates are explained by further footnotes.}}}}

! rowspan=2 width=150|Head of House

! colspan=3|Student numbers

! rowspan=2 {{Vert header|stp=1|va=middle|Endowment
(2023)}}

! rowspan=2 style=""width:4em" |Net assets
(2023)

! rowspan=2 |Assets
per
student
(2019)

! rowspan=2 {{vert header|stp=1|Abbreviation{{cite journal |author=University of Cambridge |date=6 March 2019 |title=Notice by the Editor |url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2018-19/special/05/section1.shtml |journal=Cambridge University Reporter |series=Special Numbers for the Academic Year 2018–19 |issue=5 |pages=1 |access-date=20 March 2019 |archive-date=17 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017051509/https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2018-19/special/05/section1.shtml |url-status=live }}
(and short form)}}

! rowspan=2 class=unsortable|Notes

! {{vert header|stp=1|va=middle|Postgraduates}}

! {{vert header|stp=1|va=middle|Total{{Cite web|url=https://www.information-hub.admin.cam.ac.uk/university-profile/student-numbers/student-numbers-college|title=Student Numbers by College|date=21 March 2018|access-date=2 April 2020|archive-date=27 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727070301/https://www.information-hub.admin.cam.ac.uk/university-profile/student-numbers/student-numbers-college|url-status=live}}}}

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Christ's" |File:Christs shield.png
Christ's
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Christ's}}

|1505

| data-sort-value="McDonald of Salford, Lord" |Lord McDonald of Salford{{Cite web |title=The Master {{!}} Christs College Cambridge |url=https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/master |access-date=2022-09-14 |website=www.christs.cam.ac.uk |archive-date=14 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914201517/https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/master |url-status=live }} Master since 2022

|align=right |433

|align=right |256

|align=right |689

|align=right |£122{{abbr|M|million}}{{cite web |title=Annual Report and Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/2022-23-christs-college-annual-report-and-accounts-v04.pdf |accessdate=17 June 2024 |work=Christ's College Cambridge}}

|align=right |£244{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£287{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|CHR

|Re-foundation of {{shy|Gods|house}} ({{abbr|est.|established}}{{nbsp}}1439)

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Churchill" |File:Churchill College Crest.png
Churchill
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Churchill}}

|1960
(1966){{efn|name="college-status"}}

| data-sort-value="Peacock, Sharon" |Professor Sharon Peacock{{cite news |title=Churchill College announces 8th Master|url=https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/news-and-events/churchill-college-announces-8th-master/ |access-date=10 October 2023 |work=Churchill College, Cambridge |date=10 October 2023 |archive-date=1 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201145951/https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/news-and-events/churchill-college-announces-8th-master/|url-status=dead }}
Master since 2024

|align=right |499

|align=right |346

|align=right |845

|align=right |£37{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Report and Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RCCA-22.23-Fully-Signed.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Churchill College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£196{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£215{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|CHU

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Clare" |File:ClareCollegeCrest.svg
Clare
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Clare}}

|1326
(1336){{efn|name="re-foundation"|Date of re-foundation by later benefactor.}}

| data-sort-value="Minghella, Loretta" |Loretta Minghella{{cite news |title=Loretta Minghella OBE (1981) installed as Master of Clare |url=https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/loretta-minghella-installed-master/index.html |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Clare College, Cambridge |date=1 October 2021 |archive-date=22 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022040200/https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/loretta-minghella-installed-master/index.html |url-status=live }}
Master since 2021

|align=right |519

|align=right |289

|align=right |808

|align=right |£187.5{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Clare College Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2024 |url=https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-12/Clare%20College%20Financial%20Statements%202024.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Clare College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£336{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£350{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|CL

|Formerly University Hall, then Clare Hall.

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Clare Hall" |File:Clarehall shield.png
Clare Hall
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Clare Hall}}

|1966
(1984){{efn|name="royal-charter-college"|Date of royal charter, and of recognition by the university as a constituent college.}}

| data-sort-value="Short, C. Allen" |C. Alan Short{{cite news |title=Professor C. Alan Short Elected as President |url=https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/02-12-2019/professor-c-alan-short-elected-president |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Clare Hall, Cambridge |date=2 December 2019 |archive-date=16 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016155738/https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/02-12-2019/professor-c-alan-short-elected-president |url-status=dead }}
President since 2020

|align=right |0

|align=right |249

|align=right |249

|align=right |£21{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ending 30 June 2023 |url=https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Clare-Hall-Signed-Accounts-2023-Copy.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Clare Hall, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£42{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£140{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|CLH

|align="left"|{{shy|Post|graduate}}-only.

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Corpus Christi" |File:Arms of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.svg
Corpus Christi
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Corpus Christi}}

|1352

|data-sort-value="Kelly, Christopher" |Christopher Kelly{{cite news |title=Professor Christopher Kelly's Admission as Master of Corpus |url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/professor-christopher-kellys-admission-master-corpus |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |date=4 October 2018 |archive-date=13 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813124930/https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/professor-christopher-kellys-admission-master-corpus |url-status=live }}
Master since 2018

|align=right |294

|align=right |259

|align=right |553

|align=right |£100{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Report and Financial Statement 22-23 |url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/230630_corpus_christi_college_-_rccas_30-06-2023_signed.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2023 |website=Corpus Christi College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£239{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£419{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|CC
(Corpus)

|Formerly St Benet's College.

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Darwin" |File:Darwin College Arms.svg
Darwin
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Darwin}}

| 1964
(1976){{efn|name="royal-charter-college"}}

| data-sort-value="Rands, Mike" |Mike Rands
Master since 2018

|align=right |0

|align=right |755

|align=right |755

|align=right |£25{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Darwin-Accounts-all-signed-2023.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Darwin College Cambridge}}

|align=right |£82{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£99{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|DAR

|align="left"|{{shy|Post|graduate}}-only.

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Downing" |File:Downing Crest.svg
Downing
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Downing}}

|1800

| data-sort-value="Bookbinder, Alan" |Graham Virgo{{Cite web |last= |date=2023-10-02 |title=Downing welcomes Professor Graham Virgo KC (Hon) as the 19th Master |url=https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/news/downing-welcomes-professor-graham-virgo-kc-hon-19th-master |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=Downing College Cambridge |language=en |archive-date=16 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016120151/https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/news/downing-welcomes-professor-graham-virgo-kc-hon-19th-master |url-status=live }}
Master since 2023

|align=right |463

|align=right |382

|align=right |845

|align=right |£44{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Financial Statement 2023 |url=https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Accounts_2023.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2023 |website=Downing College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£224{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£233{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|DOW

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Emmanuel" |File:Emmanuel College Crest.svg
Emmanuel
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Emmanuel}}

|1584

| data-sort-value="Chambers, Doug" |Doug Chalmers{{cite news |title=Doug Chalmers elected as the next Master of Emmanuel |url=https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/doug-chalmers-elected-as-the-next-master-of-emmanuel |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=For Staf |publisher=University of Cambridge |date=12 February 2021 |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004103516/https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/appointments/doug-chalmers-elected-as-the-next-master-of-emmanuel |url-status=live }}
Master since 2021

|align=right |512

|align=right |206

|align=right |718

|align=right |£34{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/about/documents/pdfs/RCCA%20-%2031st%20July%202023Final.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2023 |website=Emmanuel College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£351{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£394{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|EM
(Emma)

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Fitzwilliam" |File:Fitzwilliam College shield.svg
Fitzwilliam
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Fitzwilliam}}

|1869
(1966){{efn|name="royal-charter-college"}}

| data-sort-value="Morgan of Huyton, Baroness" |Baroness Morgan of Huyton{{cite news |title=Baroness Morgan of Huyton appointed Master of Fitzwilliam College |url=https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/news/baroness-morgan-huyton-appointed-master-fitzwilliam-college |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge |date=27 Feb 2019 |archive-date=21 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421042105/https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/news/baroness-morgan-huyton-appointed-master-fitzwilliam-college |url-status=dead }}
Master since 2019

|align=right |486

|align=right |413

|align=right |899

|align=right |£77{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=College Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-02/Fitzwilliam%20College%20Annual%20Report%20and%20Financial%20Statements%20For%20the%20Year%20Ended%2031st%20July%202023%20%28FINAL%29.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240618212203/https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-02/Fitzwilliam%20College%20Annual%20Report%20and%20Financial%20Statements%20For%20the%20Year%20Ended%2031st%20July%202023%20(FINAL).pdf |archive-date=18 June 2024 |access-date=18 June 2024 |website=Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£155{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£151{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|F
(Fitz)

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Girton" |24px
Girton
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Girton}}

|1869
(1924){{efn|name="royal-charter"|Date of royal charter.}}
(1948){{efn|name="college-status"}}

| data-sort-value="Kendall, Elisabeth" |Elisabeth Kendall{{cite web |title=Dr Elisabeth Kendall |url=https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-elisabeth-kendall-elected-new-mistress-girton-college |publisher=Girton College, Cambridge |access-date=7 March 2022 |archive-date=2 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602144522/https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-elisabeth-kendall-elected-new-mistress-girton-college |url-status=live }}
Mistress since 2022

|align=right |516

|align=right |292

|align=right |808

|align=right |£73{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Financial Statement 2023 |url=https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-12/GirtonCollegeAccounts2023-Signed.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Girton College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£173{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£190{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|Formerly female-only; mixed from 1976.

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Gonville and Caius" |File:Gonville & Caius College Crest.svg
Gonville and Caius
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Gonville and Caius}}

| 1348
(1557){{efn|Date of royal charter re-founding Gonville Hall as Gonville and Caius College.}}

| data-sort-value="Rogerson, Pippa" |Pippa Rogerson{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Katie |title=Cambridge college names first female head in its 700-year history, and she's an international and company law lecturer |url=https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/05/cambridge-college-names-first-female-head-in-its-700-year-history-and-shes-an-international-and-company-law-lecturer/ |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Legal Cheek |date=24 May 2017 |archive-date=27 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927131446/https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/05/cambridge-college-names-first-female-head-in-its-700-year-history-and-shes-an-international-and-company-law-lecturer/ |url-status=live }}
Master since 2018

|align=right |602

|align=right |247

|align=right |849

|align=right |£255{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts 2021/22 |url=https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/accounts%2021-22.pdf |access-date=June 27, 2024 |website=Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£383{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£398{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|CAI
(Caius)

|{{ubl|Caius, {{shy|pro|nounced}} "keys".|Formerly Gonville Hall.}}

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Homerton" |24px
Homerton
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Homerton}}

| 1768
(1976){{efn|name="first-recognition"}}
(2010){{efn|name="royal-charter-college"}}

| data-sort-value="Woolley of Woodford, Lord" |Lord Woolley of Woodford{{cite news |last1=Mistlin |first1=Alex |title=Lord Woolley to become first black man to head Oxbridge college |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/31/lord-woolley-former-head-of-race-disparity-unit-to-be-principal-at-cambridge-university |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=31 March 2021}}
Principal since 2021

|align=right |615

|align=right |577

|align=right |1192

|align=right |£119{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Report and Financial Statement 2023 |url=https://homerton.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-12/homerton_annual_report_and_financial_statement_signed.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Homerton College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£215{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£190{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|HO

|Originally mixed, then became women-only on move to Cambridge; returned to mixed from 1976.

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Hughes Hall" |File:HughesHallShield.png
Hughes Hall
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Hughes Hall}}

| 1885
(1949){{efn|name="first-recognition"}}
(2006){{efn|name="royal-charter-college"}}

| data-sort-value="Bristow, Laurie" |Sir Laurie Bristow{{cite news |date=28 March 2022 |title=Sir Laurie Bristow elected President of Hughes Hall |work=Hughes Hall, Cambridge |url=https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/about/news/sir-laurie-bristow-elected-president-of-hughes-hall/ |access-date=13 October 2022 |archive-date=13 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013185111/https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/about/news/sir-laurie-bristow-elected-president-of-hughes-hall/ |url-status=live }}
President since 2022

|align=right |150

|align=right |711

|align=right |861

|align=right |£8{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Financial Statement 2023 |url=https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Hughes-Hall-2022-23-RCCA-Accounts-FINAL.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Hughes Hall College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£57{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£53{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|HH

|Mature-only.{{efn|name=mature|Mature-only colleges admit only postgraduate students or undergraduate students over the age of 21.}}

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Jesus" |File:Jesus College (Cambridge) shield.svg
Jesus
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Jesus 2-sided}}

| 1496

|data-sort-value="Alleyne, Sonita" |Sonita Alleyne{{cite news |last1=Luxon |first1=Sally |title=Sonita Alleyne - the first female and black Master of any Oxbridge College |url=https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/sonita-alleyne-jesus-college-master-17128168 |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Cambridgeshire Live |date=27 October 2019 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407165357/https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/sonita-alleyne-jesus-college-master-17128168 |url-status=live }}
Master since 2019

|align=right |513

|align=right |411

|align=right |924

|align=right |£236{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Reports and Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/annual_report_and_accounts_2023.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Jesus College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£375{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£373{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|JE

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="King's" |File:Kingscollegearms-alternative.svg
King's
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|King's}}

| 1441

|data-sort-value="Tett, Gillian" |Gillian Tett
Provost since 2023

|align=right |402

|align=right |264

|align=right |726

|align=right |£300{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Accounts as at June 2023 |url=https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/pdfviewer/48384 |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=King's College Cambridge |language=en |archive-date=14 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314131322/https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/pdfviewer/48384 |url-status=live }}

|align=right |£451{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£621{{abbr|k|thousand}}

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Lucy Cavendish" |File:Lucy cav shield.png
Lucy Cavendish
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Lucy Cavendish}}

|1965
(1997){{efn|name="royal-charter-college"}}

|data-sort-value="Atkins, Madeleine" |Dame Madeleine Atkins{{cite news |title=Higher Education Boss Handed £550,000 In 'Golden Goodbye' |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/higher-education-boss-handed-ps500000-in-golden-goodbye_uk_5b4f5d84e4b0de86f488e101 |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Huffington Post |date=18 July 2018 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407165358/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/higher-education-boss-handed-ps500000-in-golden-goodbye_uk_5b4f5d84e4b0de86f488e101 |url-status=live }}
President since 2018

|align=right |385

|align=right |544

|align=right |929

|align=right |£14{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/Final%20signed%20accounts%20for%20the%20web.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£50{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£102{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|LC
(Lucy Cav, Lucy)

|Formerly mature-only,{{efn|name="mature"}} and female-only; all-age from 2020, mixed from 2021.

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Magdalene" |File:Magdalene college shield.svg
Magdalene
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Magdalene}}

|1428
(1542){{efn|Date of royal charter re-founding Buckingham College as Magdalene College.}}

|data-sort-value="Greenwood, Christopher" |Sir Christopher Greenwood{{cite news |title=BIICL Congratulates new master of Magdalene College |url=https://www.biicl.org/newsitems/16373/biicl-congratulates-new-master-of-magdalene-college |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=British Institute of International and Comparative Law |date=20 August 2019}}
Master since 2020

|align=right |382

|align=right |190

|align=right |572

|align=right |£74{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Reports and Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/system/files/2023-10/magdalene_college_accounts_2022-23.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Magdalene College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£202{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£312{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|{{ubl|Magdalene, {{shy|pro|nounced}} "maudlin".|Formerly {{shy|Bucking|ham}} College.}}

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Murray Edwards" |24px
Murray Edwards
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Murray Edwards}}

|1954
(1972){{efn|name="royal-charter-college"}}
(2011){{efn|name=|Date of supplemental royal charter re-founding New Hall as Murray Edwards College.}}

|data-sort-value="Byrne, Dorothy" |Dorothy Byrne{{cite news |title=Dorothy Byrne elected as next President of Murray Edwards College |url=https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/news/dorothy-byrne-elected-next-president-murray-edwards-college |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Murray Edwards College, Cambridge |date=16 December 2020 |archive-date=20 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120222136/https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/news/dorothy-byrne-elected-next-president-murray-edwards-college |url-status=live }}
President since 2021

|align=right |376

|align=right |189

|align=right |565

|align=right |£54{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Financial Statement 2023 |url=https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Annual%20Report%202023(1).pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Murray Edwards College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£118{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£186{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|MUR
(Medwards)

|{{ubl|Female students-only, mixed fellowship.|Formerly New Hall.}}

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Newnham" |File:Newnham crest.png
Newnham
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Newnham}}

|1871
(1917){{efn|name="royal-charter"}}
(1957){{efn|Date of supplemental royal charter, and of recognition by the university as a constituent college.}}

|data-sort-value="Rose, Alison" |Alison Rose{{cite news |title=Alison Rose becomes Principal of Newnham College |url=https://newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news/alison-rose-becomes-principal-of-newnham-college/ |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Newnham College, Cambridge |date=10 October 2019 |archive-date=17 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517232327/https://newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news/alison-rose-becomes-principal-of-newnham-college/ |url-status=live }}
Principal since 2019

|align=right |416

|align=right |290

|align=right |706

|align=right |£74{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Financial Statement 2023 |url=https://newn.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Newnham-College-Annual-Report-and-Financial-Statements-20230630-FULLY-SIGNED.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Newnham College, Cambridge|date=13 February 2024 }}

|align=right |£259{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£310{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|align="left"|Female-only.

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Pembroke" |File:Pembroke College (Cambridge) shield.svg
Pembroke
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Pembroke}}

|1347

|data-sort-value="Smith of Finsbury, Lord" |Lord Smith of Finsbury{{cite web |title=Chairman and trustees |url=https://www.artfund.org/about-us/meet-our-chairman-trustees |access-date=7 April 2022 |website=Art Fund |archive-date=30 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330015306/https://www.artfund.org/about-us/meet-our-trustees |url-status=live }}
Master since 2015

|align=right |475

|align=right |285

|align=right |760

|align=right |£94{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Report and Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/2022-23_pembroke_college_rcca_signed.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Pembroke College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£302{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£341{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|PEM

|Formerly Pembroke Hall.

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Peterhouse" |File:Peterhouse shield.svg
Peterhouse
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Peterhouse}}

|1284

|data-sort-value="Kendall, Bridget" |Andy Parker{{Cite web |title=News {{!}} Peterhouse |url=https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/news2 |access-date=2023-10-29 |website=www.pet.cam.ac.uk |archive-date=16 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216045901/https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/news2 |url-status=live }}
Master since 2023

|align=right |292

|align=right |178

|align=right |470

|align=right |£238.6{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Peterhouse Financial Statements for year ended June 30th |url=https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/Year%20Ended%20June%202024.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Peterhouse College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£350{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£698{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|PET

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Queens'" |File:Queens' College (Cambridge) shield.svg
Queens'
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Queens'}}

| 1448
(1465){{efn|name="re-foundation"}}

|data-sort-value="El-Erian, Mohamed A." |Mohamed A. El{{nbh}}Erian{{cite news |last1=Ablan |first1=Jennifer |title=El-Erian named new president of Queens' College, University of Cambridge |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-funds-allianz-elerian-idUSKCN1SY1X8 |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Reuters |date=28 May 2019 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407165357/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-funds-allianz-elerian-idUSKCN1SY1X8 |url-status=live }}
President since 2020

|align=right |521

|align=right |500

|align=right |1021

|align=right |£120{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Queens' College, Cambridge Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30th June 2023 |url=https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.queens.cam.ac.uk/files/downloads/accounts_annual_report_22-23.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Queens College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£154{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£156{{abbr|k|thousand}}

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Robinson" |File:Robinson College Crest.svg
Robinson
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Robinson}}

|1977
(1984){{efn|name="college-status"|Date of recognition by the university as a constituent college.}}

|data-sort-value="Heaton, Richard" |Sir Richard Heaton{{cite news |title=Robinson College welcomes its third Warden, Sir Richard Heaton |url=https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/news/robinson-college-welcomes-its-third-warden-sir-richard-heaton |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Robinson College, Cambridge |date=1 October 2021 |archive-date=17 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817012953/https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/news/robinson-college-welcomes-its-third-warden-sir-richard-heaton |url-status=live }}
Warden since 2021

|align=right |412

|align=right |252

|align=right |664

|align=right |£30{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/assets/about/Robinson%20College%20Financial%20Statements%202023.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Robinson College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£117{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£140{{abbr|k|thousand}}

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Saint Catharine's" |File:St Catharine's College Crest - flat.svg
St Catharine's
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|St Catharine's}}

|1473

|data-sort-value="Benger, John" |Sir John Benger
Master since 2023

|align=right |481

|align=right |287

|align=right |768

|align=right |£74{{abbr|M|million}}{{cite web |title=St Catharine's College, Cambridge Financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2023 |url=https://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/College%20Signed%20Accounts%202023.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=St Catharine's College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£175{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£190{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|CTH
(Catz)

| Formerly Catharine Hall.

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Saint Edmund's" |File:StEdmund'sCrest.png
St Edmund's
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|St Edmund's}}

| 1896
(1965){{efn|name="first-recognition"}}
(1998){{efn|name="royal-charter-college"}}

|data-sort-value="Arnold, Catherine" |Chris Young{{cite news |date=11 March 2023 |title=Professor Chris Young elected 16th Master of St Edmund’s College |url=https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-chris-young-elected-16th-master-of-st-edmunds-college/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421075914/https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-chris-young-elected-16th-master-of-st-edmunds-college/ |archive-date=21 April 2021|access-date=20 November 2024 |work=St Edmund's College}}
Master since 2024

|align=right |121

|align=right |452

|align=right |573

|align=right |£19{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Financial Statement 2023 |url=https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2022-23-St-Edmunds-College-FINAL.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=St Edmund's College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£44{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£71{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|ED
(Eddie's)

|align="left"|Mature-only.{{efn|name=mature}}

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Saint John's" |File:Johns shield.png
St John's
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|St John's}}

| 1511

|data-sort-value="Hancock, Heather" |Heather Hancock{{cite news |title=Heather Hancock appointed as Master of St John's College |url=https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/heather-hancock-appointed-master-st-johns-college |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=St John's College, Cambridge |date=4 December 2019 |archive-date=11 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811152412/https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/heather-hancock-appointed-master-st-johns-college |url-status=live }}
Master since 2020

|align=right |658

|align=right |319

|align=right |977

|align=right |£674{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Report and Financial Statements 2023 |url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=%2Faccounts-resource&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_objectiveId=A15016995&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_mvcRenderCommandName=%2Faccounts-and-annual-returns&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_organisationNumber=4032881 |access-date=June 17, 2023 |website=St John's College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£974{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£854{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|JN
(John's)

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Selwyn" |File:Selwyn College shield.svg
Selwyn
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Selwyn}}

| 1882
(1883){{efn|name="first-recognition"|Date of first formal recognition by the university, but not yet as a constituent college.}}
(1958){{efn|name="college-status"}}

|data-sort-value="Mosey, Roger" |Roger Mosey{{cite news |last1=Plunkett |first1=John |title=Roger Mosey quits BBC to head Selwyn College, Cambridge |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jul/02/roger-mosey-quits-bbc-selwyn-college-cambridge |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=2 July 2013}}
Master since 2013

|align=right |419

|align=right |249

|align=right |668

|align=right |£55{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |date= |title=Annual Report 2023 |url=https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/assets/about/financial/Selwyn%20College%20Accounts%202022-23%20FINAL.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Selwyn College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£134{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£182 {{abbr|k|thousand}}

|SE

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Sidney Sussex" |File:Sidney Sussex College shield.svg
Sidney Sussex
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Sidney Sussex}}

| 1596

|data-sort-value="Burton, Martin" |Martin Burton{{cite news |date=29 November 2022 |title=Professor Martin Burton elected as new Master |work=Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |url=https://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/about-sidney/news/professor-martin-burton-elected-new-master |access-date=13 September 2023 |archive-date=13 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913060247/https://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/about-sidney/news/professor-martin-burton-elected-new-master |url-status=live }}
Master since 2023

|align=right |380

|align=right |247

|align=right |627

|align=right |£31{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Financial Statement 2023 |url=https://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Financial%20Statements%20for%20yr%20to%2030%20June%202023-%20signed%20PEM.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£140{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£210{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|SID
(Sidney)

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Trinity" |File:Trinity College (Cambridge) shield.svg
Trinity
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Trinity}}

| 1546

|data-sort-value="Davies, Sally" |Dame Sally Davies{{cite news |title=Chief medical officer to become first female Trinity College master |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/08/england-chief-medical-officer-dame-sally-hughes-cambridge |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=The Guardian |agency=Press Association |date=8 February 2019}}
Master since 2019

|align=right |722

|align=right |332

|align=right |1054

|align=right |£2,020{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Trinity College, Cambridge, Annual Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30th June 2023 |url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/download/college-accounts-2023/?wpdmdl=41114&refresh=666fa4258f00e1718592549 |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Trinity College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£2,192{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£1,454{{abbr|k|thousand}}

| Founded by merger of King's Hall ({{abbr|est.|established}}{{nbsp}}1317) and {{shy|Michael|house}} ({{abbr|est.|established}}{{nbsp}}1324).

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Trinity Hall" |File:Trinity Hall Crest.png
Trinity Hall
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Trinity Hall}}

| 1350

| data-sort-value="Hockaday, Mary" |Mary Hockaday{{Cite news |date=21 September 2022 |title=Mary Hockaday takes up post as Master |work=Trinity Hall Cambridge |url=https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/mary-hockaday-takes-up-post-as-master/ |access-date=26 September 2022 |archive-date=26 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926140040/https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/mary-hockaday-takes-up-post-as-master/ |url-status=live }}
Master since 2022

|align=right |376

|align=right |226

|align=right |602

|align=right |£89{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TH-Accounts-30Jun23.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Trinity Hall, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£389{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£532{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|TH
(Tit Hall)

style="text-align: center" data-sort-value="Wolfson" |File:Wolfson College Crest.png
Wolfson
{{scarf/University of Cambridge|Wolfson}}

|1965
(1977){{efn|name="college-status"}}

|data-sort-value="Clarke, Jane" |Jane Clarke{{cite news |title=Jane Clarke 1st female president of Wolfson College |url=https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/jane-clarke-1st-female-president-wolfson-college |access-date=7 April 2022 |work=Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry |publisher=University of Cambridge |date=12 June 2017 |archive-date=17 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517232342/https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/jane-clarke-1st-female-president-wolfson-college |url-status=live }}
President since 2017

|align=right |180

|align=right |832

|align=right |1012

|align=right |£32{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |title=Annual Accounts 2023 |url=https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-12/rcca_2022-23.pdf |access-date=June 17, 2024 |website=Wolfson College, Cambridge}}

|align=right |£81{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£66{{abbr|k|thousand}}

|{{ubl|Mature-only.{{efn|name=mature}}|Formerly University College.}}

class="sortbottom"

! colspan="3" | Totals:

|align=right |12,354

|align=right |10,893

|align=right |23,247

|align=right |£4,582{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£9,184{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£319{{abbr|k|thousand}}

class="wikitable" \|+ University and colleges consolidated information
Institutions(s) ! Founded ! Head ! {{Vert header \|va=middle\| Undergraduates}} ! {{Vert header \|va=middle\| Postgraduates}} ! {{Vert header \|va=middle\| Total}} ! {{Vert header \|va=middle\| Endowment (2023)}} ! Net Assets (2023) ! style="max-width:6em" \|Assets per student (2019)
University of Cambridge \| {{circa\|1209}} \| Deborah Prentice Vice-Chancellor since 2023 \|align=right \|12,354 \|align=right \|10,893 \|align=right \|23,247 \|align=right \|£2,469{{abbr\|M\|million}}{{Cite web \|url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/university_of_cambridge_group_annual_reports_financial_statements_2021-22.pdf \|title=Reports and financial statements \|access-date=11 June 2023 \|archive-date=13 April 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413195838/https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/university_of_cambridge_group_annual_reports_financial_statements_2021-22.pdf \|url-status=live }} \|align=right \|£7,168{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£221{{abbr\|k\|thousand}}
Colleges \| 1284–1977 \| (See list) \|align=right \|" " \|align=right \|" " \|align=right \|" " \|align=right \|£4,665{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£9,184{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£319{{abbr\|k\|thousand}}
colspan="3" \| Totals: \|align=right \|12,354 \|align=right \|10,893 \|align=right \|23,247 \|align=right \|£7,134{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£16,352{{abbr\|M\|million}} \|align=right \|£541{{abbr\|k\|thousand}}

class="wikitable"

|+ University and colleges consolidated information

Institutions(s)

! Founded

! Head

! {{Vert header |va=middle| Undergraduates}}

! {{Vert header |va=middle| Postgraduates}}

! {{Vert header |va=middle| Total}}

! {{Vert header |va=middle| Endowment
(2023)}}

! Net Assets
(2023)

! style="max-width:6em" |Assets per student
(2019)

University of Cambridge

| {{circa|1209}}

| Deborah Prentice
Vice-Chancellor since 2023

|align=right |12,354

|align=right |10,893

|align=right |23,247

|align=right |£2,469{{abbr|M|million}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/university_of_cambridge_group_annual_reports_financial_statements_2021-22.pdf |title=Reports and financial statements |access-date=11 June 2023 |archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413195838/https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/university_of_cambridge_group_annual_reports_financial_statements_2021-22.pdf |url-status=live }}

|align=right |£7,168{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£221{{abbr|k|thousand}}

Colleges

| 1284–1977

| (See list)

|align=right |" "

|align=right |£4,665{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£9,184{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£319{{abbr|k|thousand}}

colspan="3" | Totals:

|align=right |12,354

|align=right |10,893

|align=right |23,247

|align=right |£7,134{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£16,352{{abbr|M|million}}

|align=right |£541{{abbr|k|thousand}}

There are also several theological colleges in the city of Cambridge (for example Ridley Hall, Wesley House, Westcott House and Westminster College) that are affiliated with the university through the Cambridge Theological Federation. These colleges, while not officially part of the University of Cambridge, operate programmes that are either validated by or are taught on behalf either of the university or of Anglia Ruskin or Durham Universities.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theofed.cam.ac.uk/institutes.html |title=Institutes and Centres in the Federation - Member Institutes |access-date=27 March 2008 |publisher=Cambridge Theological Federation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612133941/http://www.theofed.cam.ac.uk/institutes.html |archive-date=12 June 2007 }}

{{wide image|Cambridge_University_colleges_timeline.svg|700px|Timeline of the colleges in the order their students are presented for graduation, compared with some events in British history.}}

Heads of colleges

Most colleges are led by a Master, even when the Master is female. However, there are some exceptions, listed below. Girton College has always had a Mistress, even though male candidates have been able to run for the office since 1976.

Mistress: Girton College
President: Clare Hall, Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, Murray Edwards College, Queens' College, Wolfson College
Principal: Homerton College, Newnham College
Provost: King's College
Warden: Robinson College

Also see List of current heads of University of Cambridge colleges.

Former colleges

The above list does not include several former colleges that no longer exist. These include:

Ayerst Hostel, founded in 1884 by William Ayerst but closed in 1896. Buildings used by St Edmund's House from 1896 and later St Edmund's College in 1996.{{Cite web|url=http://www.quns.cam.ac.uk/queens/Misc/Coll-Dates-Cam.html |title=College History |access-date=13 September 2013 |publisher=Queens' College, Cambridge |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901131548/http://www.quns.cam.ac.uk/queens/Misc/Coll-Dates-Cam.html |archive-date=1 September 2013 }}
Buckingham College, founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hall, refounded as Magdalene in 1542.{{Cite web | url = http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/about/history/early-days.html | title = The Early Days | publisher = Magdalene College, Cambridge | access-date = 27 March 2008 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090326124845/http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/about/history/early-days.html | archive-date = 26 March 2009 }}
Bull College, an unofficial college for US GIs returning from World War II, existing in Michaelmas 1945 and Lent 1946.Cambridge Alumni Magazine, [http://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/files/documents/Cam59_medres.pdf Bull College Cambridge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151130123217/https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/files/documents/Cam59_medres.pdf |date=30 November 2015 }}, Issue 59, Lent 2010, pp30-35
Cavendish College, founded in 1873, an attempt to allow poorer students to sit the Tripos examinations, whose buildings were bought by Homerton in 1895.{{Cite web|url=http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/Coll-Dates-Cam.html |title=Cambridge Colleges Foundation Dates |publisher=Queens' College, Cambridge |access-date=27 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220151914/http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/Coll-Dates-Cam.html |archive-date=20 February 2008 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/teaching/library/archive.html |title=Homerton College Archive |access-date=27 March 2008 |publisher=Homerton College, Cambridge |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807112143/http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/teaching/library/archive.html |archive-date=7 August 2007 }}
"Clare Hall" was the name of Clare College between 1338 and 1856. Clare College founded a new college named Clare Hall in 1966.
Gonville Hall, founded in 1348, and re-founded in 1557 as Gonville and Caius College.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/college/past/index.php |title=Past - Introduction - Beginnings |access-date=27 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315090932/http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/college/past/index.php |archive-date=15 March 2008 |url-status=dead }}
God's House, founded in 1437, and re-founded in 1505 as Christ's College.{{Cite web | url = http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-life/history/ | title = College History | access-date = 9 June 2009 | publisher = Christ's College, Cambridge | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090531042909/http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-life/history/ | archive-date = 31 May 2009 | url-status = dead }}
King's Hall, founded in 1317, and combined with Michaelhouse to form Trinity College in 1546.{{Cite web | url = http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=20 | title = Historical Overview | publisher = Trinity College, Cambridge | access-date = 27 March 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080329063213/http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=20 | archive-date = 29 March 2008 | url-status = dead }}
Michaelhouse, founded in 1324, and combined with King's Hall to form Trinity College in 1546.
New Hall, founded in 1954, and re-founded in 2008 as Murray Edwards College
Physwick Hostel — a predecessor of Gonville and Caius College
University College, founded in 1965, and re-founded in 1972 as Wolfson College
University Hall, founded in 1326, refounded as Clare Hall in 1338, renamed as Clare College in 1856.

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Colleges

Category:University of Cambridge-related lists

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Colleges of the University of Cambridge

"Old" and "new" colleges

Restrictions on entry

Architectural influence

List of colleges

Heads of colleges

Former colleges

See also

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