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Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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Coordinates: 52°12′13″N, 0°7′26.3″E

Colleges of the University of Cambridge

Emmanuel College

College name

Emmanuel College

Named after

Jesus of Nazareth (Emmanuel)

Established

1584

Location

St Andrew's Street

Admittance

Men and women

Master

The Lord Wilson of Dinton

Undergraduates

465

Graduates

185

Sister college

Exeter College, Oxford

Official website

Boat Club website

Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary. Mildmay, a Puritan, originally intended Emmanuel to be a college of training for Protestant preachers to rival the successful Catholic theological schools that had trained Dominican friars for years. Emmanuel still has a few theological students, but has broadened itself to include students of a wide variety of subjects, and opened its doors to women in 1979. Emma, as it is known throughout the University, attracts large numbers of undergraduate applications owing to its reputation as a 'friendly college' (although several other colleges also claim this). Emmanuel topped the Tompkins Table in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007, which ranks colleges according to end-of-year examination results. Emmanuel has been among the top five colleges in each of the last eight years (2000-2007). The 2007 figures (2006 in brackets) were 66.62% (66.64%) with 29.5% (29.4%) awarded as First Class degrees. Emmanuel is one of the wealthier colleges at Cambridge with an estimated financial endowment of £162m (2005).

1 Notable Features
2 Civil Partnerships
3 Students' Union
4 Notable Alumni
5 See also
6 External links

Notable Features

Emmanuel's chapel was designed by Christopher Wren. There is a large fish pond in the grounds, home of a colony of ducks. Until the late 1990s, these were largely Mallards, but a former Master donated a variety of more exotic duck species, including the Carolina, the Mandarin, the Pintail, the Tufted, and the Wigeon. There is a fine example of an Oriental plane tree in the Fellows' Garden, which is reputed to have lived far longer than is typical of the species. The Fellows' Garden also contains a swimming pool which is one of the oldest bathing pools in Europe.

Emmanuel front court and the Wren chapel

Civil Partnerships

In February 2006, Rev. Jeremy Caddick, the Dean of Emmanuel College, announced that Emmanuel's chapel would be open to the blessing of same-sex civil partnerships — becoming the first in the Church of England to do so. Emmanuel's chapel is not under the formal jurisdiction of the local Church of England bishop, and did not have to obey a House of Bishops ruling against such blessings. Only members and alumni of the college may be blessed in this way. The decision was supported both by the College council and the students' union.

Students' Union

The Emmanuel College Students' Union (ECSU) provides a bar, a common room, and funding for sports and other societies, as well as acting as a formal channel of communication between the students and the College authorities. ECSU's Executive Committee is elected on a yearly basis at the end of Michaelmas Term.

Notable Alumni

Emmanuel graduates had a large involvement in the settling of North America. Of the first 100 university graduates in New England, one-third were graduates of Emmanuel College. Harvard University, the first college in North America, was named after John Harvard (B.A., 1632), who was an Emmanuel graduate. Other alumni of Emmanuel include: