Ethnicities and how well each college does.

You can find out the first two things quite readily, such as ok wikipedia

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tompkins_Table
2) http://www.btinternet.com/~akme/occxleg2.html

I don't think the latter exists on a college level. That would be creepy and I question your motivation for wanting to see such a list. Certainly I would protest against the publication of such a list.

They do publish the ethnicity breakdown of each university though, as well as every university in Britain. I've never endeavoured to look for it, but I think it's just in the reporter where they have the big list of statistics.

I don't think the latter exists on a college level. That would be creepy and I question your motivation for wanting to see such a list. Certainly I would protest against the publication of such a list.

The two things are not related in the title btw.

I was just wondering what that website is where it lists how well academically each college in cambridge and oxford does? And is there a site which puts them in order of how rich each one is?

I'd be surprised if the data doesn't exist, and as such they'd probably have to release it upon request.

The Tomkins Table for Cambridge Colleges and The Norrington Table for Oxford show colleges academic performances.

Richest Colleges. The data's a bit out of date. New Hall received a £30m donation so is much richer than that table suggests. Girton is a fair bit richer. But it should give you a general idea. Oxford data is here.

Don't read too much into the Tompkins table though- it's massively flawed. Firstly, it's biased in favour of science subjects against the arts (as arts subjects give out fewer firsts and 2.IIs and more 2.Is), which gets less Tompkins points, promotes overly pressurising borderline first candidates and neglecting borderline 2.I candidates and promotes overly an overly pressurised atmosphere. Several colleges which do well in the table have room balloting based on the results of the previous year. One college 'deaned' (sent to the dean of discipline in the college) someone who got a third in a mock exam. Also, Tompkins places vary on a year-to-year basis. It's also, one might argue, sexist, since girls tend to get more 2.Is and fewer firsts and 2.IIs than boys.



Look at the colleges admission stats (on their websites). They may give you an idea.

I very much agree, but I don't believe it's public domain. You might be able to weasel it out of them with data protection or whatever but I doubt it would be worth it for such small sample sizes.

Ooh okay, ta for that reply, v helpful.
Quick question, do the colleges at the top of the table tend to be the most popular ones?

This is the top of Tompkins table numbering it by applications per place (1 is the most popular, 31 is the least).

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7
12
14
9
22
6
19
8
1

As you can see, the top 'academic' colleges are not all the most popular. Although it is true that the less academic colleges also tend to be the least popular, you can probably argue that they are less academic because they take more people from the pool who are 'second choice'.



Yeah. But there's decent bursaries, grants and prizes wherever you go if you need/want them enough. It's just at the richer colleges, they're more readily available (you can easily get money for a holiday at trinity for example). If money is an issue, you won't be much better off at any one college than any other. Postgraduate funding has better availability at rich colleges.

Here's the Oxford admissions statistics for my year:

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:WrCkpOKockwJ:www.ox.ac.uk/document.rm%3Fid%3D350+Oxford+admissions+statistics&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

Ethnicity stats are in Table 5

There probs is, but I'll leave it to a Cambridge student to point you out to those! Did a quick Google search and couldn't find anything, but am sure the info must be available somewhere!

Just out of interest, why do you want the ethnicity stats? They do vary year by year, so don't put too much emphasis on them!

Why is Selwyn shown to be the poorest college when it isn't? It's about 15th richest at last count, I believe, which was last year.

Why is Selwyn shown to be the poorest college when it isn't? It's about 15th richest at last count, I believe, which was last year.

Don't think so, unless the Bursar has won the lottery. It's a very poor college, not quite as badly off as some of the newest colleges, but certainly without any great endowment. Anne's Court and the new building is being funded by alumni, otherwise it wouldn't have happened at all.