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New Cambridge College Ranking

I have compiled a College ranking based on the distribution of Gates Scholarships since their establishment in 2000 - taken as something of an indicator of post-graduate intake quality.

This is a slight effort to counter-balance the absolute emphasis given in the Tompkins Table to the undergraduate level, and in the same step, transcend the incomplete and/or distorted representation of post-graduate, and post-graduate heavy, colleges.

Of course, this is only speculative fun, and shouldn’t - like any consideration of putative ‘prestige’ - be taken particularly seriously. It’s also rather statistically crude. As shouldn’t merit reiteration, all College’s provide a potential environment for flourishing.

The first number is the total number of Gates Scholars attending, or having attended, that college; the second number is the total post-graduate population of that college; the third number is the second number divided by the first. I have noted College’s positions on these new rankings relative to the latest Tompkins Table.

1. St John’s - 121 / 337 -- 2.78 (up 12)
2. Churchill - 106 / 300 -- 2.83 (up 3)
3. Trinity College - 130 / 397 -- 3.05 (down 2)
4. Peterhouse - 35 / 110 -- 3.14 (up 6)
5. King’s - 80 / 280 -- 3.5 (up 9)
6. Trinity Hall - 52 / 270 -- 5.19 (down 3)
7. Pembroke - 46 / 250 -- 5.43 (down 5)
8. Clare Hall - 33 / 180 -- 5.45 (excluded from Tompkins)
9. Wolfson - 71 / 439 -- 6.18 (up 17)
10. Gonville & Caius - 40 / 250 -- 6.25 (up 8)
11. Clare - 46 / 300 -- 6.52 (up 1)
12. Emmanuel - 33 / 220 -- 6.66 (down 7)
13. Christ’s - 25 / 170 -- 6.8 (down 4)
14. St Edmund’s - 49 / 350 -- 7.15 (up 16)
15. Corpus Christi - 28 / 220 -- 7.86 (up 2)
16. Jesus - 38 / 310 -- 8.15 (down 9)
17. Queens’ - 55 / 450 -- 8.18 (down 9)
18. Sidney Sussex - 30 / 250 -- 8.33 (up 2)
19. Selwyn - 23 / 200 -- 8.69 (no change)
20. Murray Edwards - 14 / 130 -- 9.28 (up 5)
21. Darwin College - 65 / 629 -- 9.67 (excluded from Tompkins)
22. Magdalene - 24 / 235 -- 9.79 (down 6)
23. Downing - 26 / 258 -- 9.92 (down 10)
24. Fitzwilliam - 30 / 308 -- 10.26 (down 3)
25. Girton - 21 / 220 -- 10.47 (down 3)
26. Hughes - 38 / 440 -- 11.57 (up 2)
27. Lucy Cavendish - 17 / 220 -- 12.94 (up 2)
28. St. Catharine’s - 15 / 220 -- 14.66 (down 18)
29. Newnham - 17 / 285 -- 16.76 (down 5)
30. Robinson - 6 / 175 -- 29.16 (down 7)
31. Homerton - 11 / 600 -- 54.54 (down 4)
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Must we establish hierarchies within hierarchies? This is Cambridge we're talking about!
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Must we establish hierarchies within hierarchies? This is Cambridge we're talking about!


I agree, and indeed, this was my reasoning for the graduate-adjusted rankings: to destabilise received notions about college hierarchies by urging the degree to which such can change under varying reasonable criteria.

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