University of Cambridge
Ranked #3

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• Six schools are spread across the university’s 31 colleges: Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Technology.
• Cambridge entered 95% of eligible academics for the most recent Research Excellence Framework — no university involved a higher proportion — and 87% of their work was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. 
• The university is home to over 100 libraries, which, between them, hold more than 15 million books in total. The university also owns nine arts, scientific and cultural museums, and a botanical garden. 
• Some of the most notable Cambridge alumni include eminent scientists and mathematicians such as Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking and Alan Turing, and famous names in the arts such as Sir Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson and Tom Hiddleston.