2 Welcome www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk 5 Welcome to Welcome Cambridge Consistently rated among the top universities in both national and international league tables, the University of Cambridge offers a world leading postgraduate education. With a global outlook and reach, our mission is to contribute to society through For hundreds of years, My student days at Cambridge offered the pursuit of education, learning and research at me the precious opportunity to challenge the highest international levels of excellence. Cambridge has nurtured and deepen my knowledge. But they generation after generation also provided the space and the time of students. to broaden my intellectual horizons, allowing me to read voraciously and The collegiate University is bound widely, and to interact with one of the together by a deep-rooted sense of most stimulating and diverse groups of community, shared purposes and a people I had ever met – staff and students 140+ Top 5 willingness to share resources and talents. from around the globe. countries represented among undergraduates for academic and employer reputation Our commitment to excellence in and postgraduate students (QS World University Rankings 2019) At Cambridge, we continue to reach our education, learning and research is hands outward. As we do so, we welcome uncompromising and lived out in practice an ever more diverse group of students every day in our lecture theatres and who have the desire and ability to learn supervision rooms, our libraries and labs. and produce new insights that shift our Top 10 98 Cambridge is one of the top ten universities most affi liates of the University have been awarded understanding of the world around us. often targeted by Britain’s leading graduate the Nobel Prize since 1904 employers (The Graduate Market in 2019) Professor Stephen Toope Vice-Chancellor Contents Timeline of People at Cambridge ............................................................. 4 Applying .................................................................................................................. 14 Our Research ............................................................................................................ 6 After Applying ..................................................................................................... 16 Courses ........................................................................................................................ 8 Finance and Funding ...................................................................................... 18 Research Facilities ................................................................................................. 9 Colleges ................................................................................................................... 20 Student Support ................................................................................................ 10 International Students / Frequently Asked Questions ........... 22 Careers ....................................................................................................................... 11 Find Out More and Visit Us ......................................................................... 23 Student Life ............................................................................................................ 12 6 Timeline of People at Cambridge www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk 7 Timeline of people at Cambridge Charles Darwin J.J. Thomson Reproduced by kind permission of the Master Courtesy and copyright of the Cavendish Laboratory John Cockcroft and Fellows of Christ’s College Xu Zhimo Courtesy and copyright of the Cavendish Laboratory 1687 1831 1869 1897 1912 1928 1932 Isaac Newton Charles Darwin is Emily Davies, suff ragist, J.J. Thomson, Lawrence Bragg Xu Zhimo The atom is split for the fi rst time, creating publishes ‘Principia recommended by Botany and others found Cavendish Professor discovers the composes his the study of nuclear physics, by John Mathematica’, Professor John Stevens Girton College, the fi rst of Physics, discovers mechanism of infl uential poem Crockcroft and Ernest Walton under establishing the Henslow to join HMS Beagle residential university- the electron. In X-ray diff raction. ‘On Leaving the direction of Ernest Rutherford. Their fundamental principles as the naturalist on its level institution of higher following years, Three years later, Cambridge’ whilst Nobel Prize for physics is awarded in 1951. of modern physics. scientifi c survey of South learning for women. inventors use his he shares his studying at the In this year, F.R. Leavis, Lecturer in English, American waters. work to develop Nobel Prize for University as a also publishes ‘New Bearing in English Emily Davies new devices such as Physics with his visiting scholar. Acknowledgement: The Mistress and Poetry’. His distinctive style of literary and Fellows, Girton College, Cambridge the telephone, radio father, W.H. Bragg. cultural criticism infl uences generations and television. of students in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. 1960 1953 1947 1941 1938 Sir Charles Oatley, Rosalind Franklin, David Attenborough The fi rst Dorothy Garrod is Professor of Electrical Francis Crick and graduates having studied aeroplane to be elected to the Disney 1968 Engineering at the James Watson discover Natural Sciences. powered by one Professorship in Anthony Hewish and University’s Department the structure of DNA. of Frank Whittle’s Archaeology, the fi rst Jocelyn Bell discover of Engineering, leads a Their discovery opens revolutionary new woman Professor at pulsating stars or ‘pulsars’ team which develops Rosalind Franklin the door to the study jet engines takes Cambridge. Dorothy Garrod using Cambridge’s the fi rst scanning Credit: Newnham of an entirely new to the air. Credit: Newnham College Cambridge electron microscope. College Cambridge science - genetics. David Attenborough Mullard Radio Astronomy Credit: Chris Boland Observatory. Their work alters the course of modern cosmology. Zadie Smith Her Majesty is the Patroness of 1988 1999 2000 Credit: David Shakbone 2009 2019 Queens’ and visited the College for lunch with more than 80 Fellows, students and sta . Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Cambridge scientists Alumna Zadie The University Her Majesty Professor of Mathematics, publishes his book, identify the gene Smith releases of Cambridge the Queen ‘A Brief History of Time’, one of the best-selling causing diabetes and her debut novel, celebrates opens the scientifi c books of all time. He is already high blood pressure. 'White Teeth', which its 800th Papworth eminent for his work on black holes and the becomes a best anniversary. hospital on the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. seller and wins a Cambridge number of awards. Biomedical Campus. 8 Our Research www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk 9 1 4 Our Research 8 In Cambridge, we are committed to achieving excellence in research, and to ensuring that our research contributes to the wellbeing of society. Here are a few examples of recent research topics at Cambridge: Exploring viral charity campaigns 1. Using AI to avert ‘environmental catastrophe’ - 7. Pioneering a new way to turn sunlight into fuel - Using AI to avert and their psychological ‘recipe’ A new Centre at the University of Cambridge will develop The quest to fi nd new ways to harness solar power has ‘environmental catastrophe’ and all-too-brief lifespan artifi cial intelligence techniques to help address some of taken a step forward after researchers successfully split the biggest threats facing the planet. water into hydrogen and oxygen by altering the photosynthetic machinery in plants. 2. ‘Murder map’ reveals medieval London’s meanest streets Credit: Katarzyna Sokół - First digital map of the murders recorded by the city’s coroner 5 Discovering how in early 1300s shows Cheapside and Cornhill were homicide 8. Discovering how multilingualism could benefi t multilingualism could benefi t India’s poorest schoolchildren ‘hot spots’, and Sundays held the highest risk of violent death India’s poorest schoolchildren - Multilingualism is the 2 for medieval Londoners. norm in India. But rather than enjoying the cognitive and Credit: Violence Research Centre learning advantages seen in multilingual children in the Global North, Indian children show low levels of learning 3. Developing technique to ‘listen’ to a patient’s basic school skills. Professor Ianthi Tsimpli is trying to disentangle the causes of this paradox. brain during tumour surgery - Surgeons could soon 9 Credit: Ianthi Tsimpli eavesdrop on a patient’s brain activity during surgery to Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice remove their brain tumour, helping improve the accuracy of http://cam.ac.uk/202172 shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean the operation and reduce the risk of impairing brain function. Credit: Kai Schreiber 9. How AI system may accelerate search for cancer discoveries - Searching through the mountains of published cancer research could be made easier for scientists, thanks 4. Exploring viral charity campaigns and their ‘Murder map’ reveals medieval to a new AI system. Global cancer research attracts massive 6 psychological ‘recipe’ and all-too-brief lifespan - London’s meanest streets amounts of funding worldwide, and the scientifi c literature is New work focusing on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge reveals now so huge that researchers are struggling to keep up with the very brief shelf life of such viral campaigns, and suggests it. It is the fi rst literature-based