University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. It was founded in 1209 and is described as the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the third-oldest in continuous operation anywhere. Its founding followed the arrival of scholars who left the University of Oxford for Cambridge after a dispute with local townspeople, and it received a royal charter from King Henry III in 1231. The university is made up of 31 semi-autonomous constituent colleges and more than 150 academic departments, faculties and other institutions organised into six schools; every student must belong to a college, and undergraduate teaching centres on weekly small-group supervisions. It also runs the oldest university press in the world, eight cultural and scientific museums and a large library system. For the technology atlas it matters as the institution where many engineers and engineering researchers have studied and worked.