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The University of Cambridge is routinely ranked among the world's top five universities, and has sometimes been ranked as the world's best. As of 2024, the University of Cambridge is ranked the second-best university in the world behind the MIT and the best university in Europe by QS Rankings. [177]
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.
The 2024 edition of the QS World University Rankings ranked Cambridge seventh in the world for the study of politics. [12] The 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it sixth. [13] The department has been ranked top in the UK for the teaching of politics by the 2025 Complete University Guide. [14]
The largest academic subdivision of the university are the six schools; Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology. The schools are then divided into faculties and departments.
The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking that lists the Colleges of the University of Cambridge in order of their undergraduate students' performances in that year's examinations. Two colleges— Darwin and Clare Hall —do not have undergraduate students and do not feature in the list.
The University of Pennsylvania comes in first if only bachelor's degrees are counted, according to the most recent 2022 Forbes report. [1] Harvard also ranks first in the number of ultra-high net worth alumni with assets greater than $30 million.
The Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine (A101) is the most competitive course offered by the University and in the UK, and is among the most competitive medical programs for entry in the world. [3] The school is located alongside Addenbrooke's Hospital and other institutions in multiple buildings across the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. [4]
Top 40 universities based on the CUG's aggregated results over the past 10 years. The Complete University Guide is compiled by Mayfield University Consultants and was published for the first time in 2007. [4] The ranking uses ten criteria, with a statistical technique called the Z-score applied to the results of each. [5]