Which are the best Cambridge Colleges?
The lectures are provided by the university who also set the examinations and award the degrees. All undergraduates belong to a college who arrange accommodation, provide meals (for a fee), provide a social setting, sports facilities and most important academically arrange supervisions. These are gatherings of 2-4 undergraduates with a graduate student or academic and attendance at these is compulsory. They form an integral part of the teaching and, at their best, some of the most stimulating experiences you will have. Colleges have different strengths, for example when I was there Downing seemed to have many of the chess players, Trinity was good for rowing, Kings and Johns were good for music both academic and amateur. Colleges also supply library facilities (in addition to the university library and department libraries) so the expression ‘reading for a degree’ is descriptive, especially for the arts. Some colleges are large, e.g. Trinity, others smaller e.g. Corpus Christi which ha
