Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary. Mildmay, a Puritan, originally intended Emmanuel to be a college of training for Protestant preachers to rival the successful Catholic theological schools that had trained Dominican friars for years.
Emmanuel still has quite a few theological students, but has broadened itself to includ...
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Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary. Mildmay, a Puritan, originally intended Emmanuel to be a college of training for Protestant preachers to rival the successful Catholic theological schools that had trained Dominican friars for years.
Emmanuel still has quite a few theological students, but has broadened itself to include students of a wide variety of subjects, and opened its doors to female students in 1979.
"Emma", as the college is known throughout the university, attracts large numbers of undergraduate applications owing to its reputation as a "friendly college" (although several other colleges also claim this), and it has the distinction of being the "only College in Cambridge to offer a [free] laundry service".
Emmanuel topped the Tompkins Table, which ranks colleges according to end-of-year examination results, in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007 and was...
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