Dear World,
Our ideas have shaped the world.
Now we must shape its future.

Yours, Cambridge

Cambridge University has announced an unprecedented £100 million gift to help attract the most talented postgraduate and undergraduate students from the UK and around the world. Visit Latest News to learn more.
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Our goal

£1.45 billion
£2 billion

Yours, Cambridge

Featured priorities

Graduating students at General Admission, 2012

Undergraduate bursaries

The Cambridge Bursary Scheme, run by the University's Student Registry, offers many UK and EU students studying for their first degree financial support in the form of non-repayable bursaries, the value of which is dependent on their household income.
Students in front of one of our Colleges

Global talent to shape our global future: supporting postgraduate students

There are thousands of students out there who could make their mark on the world.
Sir David Attenborough (image by Cate Gillon)

Saving our planet's biodiversity

Creative solutions to environmental challenges
Scientists working

Curing cancer through early detection and precision medicine

Working to improve outcomes for patients everywhere

News

Dr Johnny Habchi, Dr Christopher Proctor, and Dr Peitro Sormanni in coversation

Impact of giving: the Borysiewicz Biomedical Fellowships

The Borysiewicz Fellowship takes some of the best Cambridge postdocs and develops them into motivated, strategic future leaders ready to pursue a range of global questions and problems. These researchers work in teams on projects aimed at finding solutions for some of the world’s most pressing problems.
Dr Hannah Stern and researcher in the lab

Without philanthropy

Our donors support some of the brightest postgraduate and undergraduate talents. Find out how philanthropic support gives them the freedom to investigate their subjects.
Claudia and David Harding

Cambridge University secures unprecedented £100 million gift to support students

Cambridge University has announced an unprecedented £100 million gift to help attract the most talented postgraduate and undergraduate students from the UK and around the world
Maxwell Centre

New programme to support academic and industrial links with Greece

A new training and research programme at the University of Cambridge will fund PhD students and early-career researchers as they work to develop technologies for the world’s future energy and computational needs. 

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