Emma (as Emmanuel’s affectionately known), 500m from King’s Parade, is a collection of dignified 16th-century buildings, 60s accommodation blocks, elegant landscaped gardens and a duck pond, replete with resident ducks. It’s a progressive place as colleges go – Emma’s students are allowed to walk on the grass and its Wren-designed chapel was the first in the Church of England to bless civil partnerships. Emmanuel’s notoriously hard-working students are nonetheless perceived by others as unpretentious, approachable party-lovers, who are well represented in University activities.
| Sex ratio (M:F): 46:54 |
Founded: 1584 |
| Full-time u’grads: 506 |
Part-time: 0 |
| Postgrads: 168 |
Mature: 4% |
| State:private school: 53:47 |
Disabled: 33 |
| Academic ranking: 1 |
International: 7% |
Split-level bar (cap 200) – cheapest in Cambridge; ball/event every year; theatre in new Queen’s building; films, DJ nights, quizzes, live funk, indie and jazz nights; College music and drama societies. Weekly Roar mag. Library (51,500 books); 30 computers in two rooms, 24-hr; all rooms networked on site, help provided for off-site 'net set up. Chapel designed by Christopher Wren. Sports fields (2½ acres) and impressive pavilion 20 mins away; squash courts; outdoor swimming pool in the grounds; boathouse with own gym. Rowers by tradition. All undergrads live in (£68/wk); laundry service, or on-site facilities; main gate closed at midnight. Optional formal dinners; veggie and vegan options. CCTV; part-time nurse; part-time counsellor; free condoms and pregnancy tests; exam-time stressbusters (yoga, study skills workshops); Women’s Group & Officer; Disabilities and Access Officers.
FAMOUS ALUMNI
Graham Chapman (Monty Python’s Brian); Sebastian Faulks (novelist); Michael Frayn (playwright); Eddie George (ex-Gov, Bank of England); James Fox (actor); John Harvard (founder of Harvard University); FR Leavis (lit crit); Rory McGrath (TV personality); Lord Cecil Parkinson (Tory); Griff Rhys Jones (TV presenter/comedian); Alan Rouse (K2 climber).