St Catharine's College (Cambridge)

Collegium sive aula D. Catharinæ in Universitate Cantabrigiensi
founding	1473 Katharine Hall (until 1860)
Sponsorship	University of Cambridge
place	Cambridge
master	Jean Olwen Thomas
Students	436 postgraduates : 165
Website	www.caths.cam.ac.uk

St Catharine's College

The St Catharine's College is a college of the University of Cambridge , England . It was founded in 1473 . The college has an above-average proportion of students from state schools for Cambridge; however, this is only a narrow majority of the college's students. According to the college ranking of the Tompkins Table, which is only designated for Cambridge, St Catharine's College has consistently held an outstanding place in the top third of a total of 29 colleges investigated in the ranking for years.

In 2003 and 2004, 3 out of 8 rowers in the Boat Race were students at St Catharine's College.

Alumni

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed , fifth President of India Ben Miller , British actor, comedian and screenwriter

Noel Currer-Briggs , cryptanalyst and genealogist Tunku Abdul Rahman , first Prime Minister of Malaysia

Sir Ian McKellen , actor Terence Young , British director

Web links

Commons : St Catharine's College  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the college

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 10.5 ″  N , 0 ° 7 ′ 0.4 ″  E