Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Trinity is the largest of all the colleges in Cambridge (and indeed Oxford), with around 650 undergraduates, 320 graduates, and over 160 Fellows. It is also the wealthiest Oxbridge college with an estimated financial endowment of £621m and income of £25.2m (2003) (On a per student basis, Trinity is one of the best-endowed educational institutions in the world).

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Constituent colleges - University of Cambridge - Cambridge - England - Oxford - Undergraduate - Graduate - Fellow - Oxbridge - Financial endowment - 2003

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The college is a major landowner, including holdings in the port of Felixstowe, and the Cambridge Science Park. Trinity has a very strong academic tradition, with members having won thirty-one Nobel prizes

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Felixstowe - Cambridge Science Park - Nobel prize

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(sometimes erroneously described as "more than France") and four Fields Medals (mathematics).

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France - Fields Medal

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Trinity College and King's College were for decades the main recruiting grounds for the Cambridge Apostles, an elite, intellectual secret society that once boasted members of real distinction but which now - if it still exists - no longer has any presence in the university.

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King's College - Cambridge Apostles

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Trinity's sister college is Christ Church, Oxford; both were founded by Henry VIII in the 1546.

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Sister college - Christ Church, Oxford - Henry VIII - 1546

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Trinity has many college societies: its rowing club is the First and Third Trinity Boat Club. The college May Ball is regarded by many as one of the highlights of the Oxbridge social calendar.

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Rowing - First and Third Trinity Boat Club - May Ball - Oxbridge

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