Cambridge University

Cambridge University is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second oldest in the UK after Oxford. Currently, there are 18,000 students studying in Cambridge, about 20% of whom are foreigners.

A prerequisite for the founding of the University of Cambridge in 1209 was the conflict of several teachers from Oxford with the locals, as a result of which, fearing persecution, they fled to Cambridge. Since it was much easier to escape from the people of Oxford than from their own vocation, a group of teachers founded a new alma mater in these places, where the local youth soon reached. Almost a century later, in 1318, Pope John XXII officially recognized the university, and in 1869 the first women's college, called Girton, opened here.

Cambridge now includes a central department and 31 colleges - 28 co-educational and 3 women's, as well as more than 100 departments, faculties and schools under the leadership of the General Board.

The Cathedral of King’s College, whose construction began in 1446 and lasted almost a hundred years, is the most outstanding building of the university. Every year at Christmas there is a choir of boys of the Cathedral of Royal College.