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

Yours, Cambridge

Our planet faces new and daunting challenges. Our ideas and insights are needed to solve them. But to attract the finest minds, and give them the resources they need, we need the world’s support.
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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

Gates Scholar alumni

Gates Cambridge programme announces 2019 Scholars

The Class of 2019 includes citizens from 37 different countries and the first scholars from Burundi and Mongolia. This year 27 universities have produced their first Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Cambridge and Heidelberg announce major project to digitise treasured medieval manuscripts

Cambridge and Heidelberg announce major project to digitise treasured medieval manuscripts

Centuries-old manuscripts feature the works of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Euripides.
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.

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