The oldest universities of Great Britain Oxford Cambridge

There are about 90 Universities in Great Britain, the biggest one is London University. The oldest is Oxford university.

Oxford was founded in the 12 th century (1133) as an aristocratic University. It has an aristocratic character today.

The cost of studies in the university is rather high. Students have to pay for using libraries and laboratories, as for taking exams.

The university is a collection of 35 colleges: two for women only, the rest are for man and women.

Each college gives students a specialized training in arts, law, medicine, science. The largest college has over 500 students, the smallest – 100 students.

Only in the 19 th century women of any race could enter the University.

Cambridge is the second oldest university in Britain. It was opened in

In old times students of Cambridge were not allowed to play games, sing, hunt, fish, dance. They wore special dark clothes and squares, the academic caps, they wear them in our days.

80 Nobel Prize winners studied in this University : 29 in physics, 22 in medicine, 18 in chemistry, 7 in economics, 2 in literature, 2 World Nobel Prize.

Study well and youll have a chance to enter these universities.