Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Emmanuel takes students across all subjects offered by the University of Cambridge. Its student body is evenly divided male-female and arts-science. 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 an estimated financial endowment of £140m (2008). The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to...