Theology at Cambridge

Hey there, I was originally applying to Oxford because my school had a long history of sending theology students to OXford, plus my teachers were far more familiar with the system. However, as soon as I looked at the syllabus for Theology and Religious studies at cam I knew it was for me. The course at OXford seemed a lot more old fashioned - a lot more biblical study, with scripture and doctrine study. The course at Cambridge is so much more alive - you can study world religions, have the choice of learning sanskrit and arabic as well as hebrew and greek, and there's a far greater aspect of sociology, psychology, anthropology and history - making it much broader than at Oxford.
Cambridge is invariably easier to get into than at Oxford, as assuming that both recieve the same number of applicants, only 8 colleges at Oxford do theology whereas they all do at Cambridge (except for Churchill I think).
There's also quite a lot of variance over the college applications, but the way the theology applications work at Cambridge is that you get cross moderated (e.g. interviewed at 2 different colleges), which means that if your first college choose to reject you than the second college has first dibs on you if you're pooled.
Hope this helps.

I do believe that both have about the same number of theologians though so it isn't easier to get into at all.

I'm currently reading theology at jesus which is a great college and i'd suggest you put it on your short-list. Jesus ws my second interview college having originally applied to corpus... so the theology pool thing is a really good idea in my opinion.
Justin