Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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| University | Cambridge University |
| Location | St Andrew's Street (map) |
| Coordinates | 52°12′13″N 0°7′26.3″E / 52.20361°N 0.123972°ECoordinates: 52°12′13″N 0°7′26.3″E / 52.20361°N 0.123972°E |
| Latin name | Collegii Emanuelis |
| Founder | Sir Walter Mildmay |
| Established | 1584 |
| Named for | Jesus of Nazareth (Emmanuel) |
| Sister college | Exeter College, Oxford |
| Master | Fiona Reynolds |
| Undergraduates | 500 |
| Postgraduates | 134 |
| Website | www |
| Student Union | www |
| MCR | www |
| Boat club | ebc |
Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I.
In every year 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 has topped the table five times since then (2003, '04, '06, '07 and '10) and placed second six times (2001, '02, '08, '09, '11, '12).
Emmanuel is one of the wealthier colleges at Cambridge with a financial endowment of approximately £105 million and net assets of £150 million (2012).
The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site had been occupied by a Dominican friary until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, some 45 years earlier. Mildmay's foundation made use of the existing buildings.
Mildmay, a Puritan, intended Emmanuel to be a college of training for Protestant preachers.
Like all of the older Cambridge Colleges, Emmanuel originally took only male students. It first admitted female students in 1979.
Under Mildmay's instruction, the chapel of the original Dominican Friary had been converted to be the College's dining hall, with the friar's dining hall becoming a puritan chapel. In the late 17th century, the College commissioned a new chapel, one of three buildings in Cambridge to be designed by Christopher Wren (1677). After Wren's construction, the puritan chapel became the College library until it outgrew the space and a purpose-built library was constructed in 1930.
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