Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
Emmanuel takes students across all subjects offered by the University of Cambridge with a roughly 50/50 split between Science and Arts.
Since 1998, Emmanuel has been among the top five colleges in the Tompkins Table, which ranks colleges according to end-of-year examination results. Emmanuel topped the table in 2003, '04, '06, '07, and '10 and was second in 2001, '02, '08, ...
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Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
Emmanuel takes students across all subjects offered by the University of Cambridge with a roughly 50/50 split between Science and Arts.
Since 1998, Emmanuel has been among the top five colleges in the Tompkins Table, which ranks colleges according to end-of-year examination results. Emmanuel topped the table in 2003, '04, '06, '07, and '10 and was second in 2001, '02, '08, '09, and '11. The 2011 figures were 69.79% with 31.8% awarded as First Class degrees.
Emmanuel is one of the wealthier colleges at Cambridge with a financial endowment of approximately £150m (2011).
The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site had been occupied by a Dominican friary until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, some 45 years earlier. Mildmay's foundation made use of the existing buildings.
Mildmay, a Puritan, intended Emmanuel to be a college of training for Protestant...
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