Gonville and Caius College | |
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University of Cambridge | |
![]() Gonville & Caius College from King's Parade | |
![]() Arms of Gonville & Caius College | |
Scarf colours: four equal stripes alternating black and Cambridge blue | |
Location | Trinity Street (map) |
Coordinates | 52°12′21″N 0°07′04″E / 52.2059°N 0.1179°E |
Abbreviation | CAI[1] |
Founders |
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Established | 1348, refounded 1557 |
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Sister college | Brasenose College, Oxford |
Master | Pippa Rogerson |
Undergraduates | 618 (2022-23) |
Postgraduates | 256 (2022-23) |
Endowment | £254.5m (2022)[2] |
Website | www |
Boat club | www |
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Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius (/kiːz/ KEEZ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge[3] in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of the wealthiest. In 1557, it was refounded by John Caius, an alumnus and English physician.
The college has been attended by many students who have gone on to significant accomplishment, including fifteen Nobel Prize winners, the second-largest number of any Oxbridge college.[4][5][6]
Several streets in the city, including Harvey Road, Glisson Road, and Gresham Road, are named after Gonville and Caius alumni.[7] The college and its masters have been influential in the development of the university, including in the founding of other colleges, including Trinity Hall and Darwin College and providing land on Sidgwick Site on which the Faculty of Law was built.