The University of Cambridge, founded in 1209, is one of the world's top universities, a member of the International Alliance of Research Universities, and has cultivated many Nobel Prize winners

The University of Cambridge was founded in 1209 by a group of teachers who had fled from Oxford to escape the brawl. King Henry III granted Cambridge a monopoly on teaching in 1231. The University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford (University of Oxford) are the two best universities in the United Kingdom, collectively known as "Oxbridge", which is one of the top ten universities in the world, with 88 Nobel laureates from this school (more than 100 people have actually worked or taught at this university, but the official data of the University of Cambridge is based on whether students or teachers have a Membership/Fellowship of the college, so the official number is 88, for the world's best). The University of Cambridge is a member of the Russell Group, a consortium of British universities, and the CoimbraGroup, a consortium of European universities. The current principal is Allison Richard.

Cambridge, where the University of Cambridge is located, is an English town with 100,000 inhabitants, less than 100 kilometers from the British capital London, this town is crossed by a river, named "RiverCam" (RiverCam, also translated as "Cam"), as early as 43 BC, Roman soldiers were stationed on the Sword River, and later a bridge was built over the Sword River, so that the name of the river and the bridge together constitute the name of Cambridge. The vast majority of colleges, institutes, libraries and laboratories are located in the town, in addition to more than 20 churches.

The University of Cambridge has 31 colleges, three women's colleges, and two specialized graduate schools, each with a different historical background and a unique college system, and 31 colleges with different styles are financially self-sustaining; The University of Cambridge is responsible for student planning and teaching, and each college has its own internal admission procedures, and each college is somewhat like a miniature university, with its own rules and disciplines. The first college of the University of Cambridge, Peter's College, was founded in 1284, and others were established in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Many parts of the University of Cambridge have preserved their medieval style, and you can see the ancient city buildings that have been carefully restored for hundreds of years, and the porches and walls of many campus buildings are still decorated with simple and solemn statues and seals, and the tall stained glass windows are like magnificent pictures. The University of Cambridge has more than 1,000 faculty members (professors, associate professors, lecturers) and more than 1,000 visiting scholars. The University of Cambridge has a total of 18,071 full-time students, including 5,969 postgraduate students, 70% of whom are from other universities, 38% of whom are international students from outside the European Union, and 46.7% of the students are women. The total number of international students in all majors and grades of the university is about 660 in the United States, followed by about 600 from China (among which the largest number of students are in one-year graduate school). The vice-chancellor of the University is Prince Philip, the Queen's husband (the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford is the former Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten), and an executive vice-president presides over the day-to-day work.

Students at the University of Cambridge participate in a variety of leisure activities, among which rowing is the most popular sport, with frequent competitions between the faculties of the University of Cambridge and the annual rowing competition between the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. There are also various other sports competitions held between the colleges, including rugby, cricket, chess, etc. The university was ranked 59th in the 2006 WorldBrandLab Top 500 rankings. In 2008-2009, the University of Cambridge had a total revenue of about US$1.85 billion (excluding the income of individual colleges), ranking among the top 5 universities in the world and one of the richest universities in the world, most of which were funded by alumni and community donations, of which about 1/4 came from the government (this data is extracted from the 2008-2009 Cambridge University Financial Report). In the "007" series of films, James Bond, played by Roger Moore, graduated from Cambridge University with a major in Oriental literature.