Sidney’s one of the prettier colleges, with red-brick just about complementing the grander late 16th-century stuff. It’s small enough to be undaunting, but big enough to avoid being stifling. And best of all, Sainsbury’s is about 20m away. There’s an active JCR, some of the best accommodation in Cambridge and students have a high profile in University drama and Rag. It’s also one of the least stuffy places in town – around 65% of students are from state schools, it was one of the first colleges to let girls in and the Master is a mistress.
| Sex ratio (M:F): 55:45 |
Founded: 1596 |
| Full-time u’grads: 370 |
Part-time: 0 |
| Postgrads: 178 |
Mature: 2% |
State:private school: 44:56
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International: 10% |
| Academic ranking: 12 |
Disabled: 4 |
Only student-run bar in Cambridge (cap. 175) used for fortnightly bops; William Mong Hall, (80 seated); biennial ball. Sid News newsletter and rowdy El Sid mag; Yearbook. Library (40,000 books); 36 computers, 24-hr; net access in all rooms. Chapel. Boathouse; squash court, croquet lawn and gym on site. All live in (£67-87/week), some en suite rooms, most within five mins of College; eat in dining hall (food improving, veggie option); adequate self-catering. CCTV; chaplain; nurse; hardship fund; bursaries; book grants; prizes. Rooms for disabled students, some lifts. Alternative Prospectus.
FAMOUS ALUMNI
Asa Briggs (historian); Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector); Lord Owen (ex-SDP leader); Andrew Rawnsley (journo); Carol Vorderman (fawning daytime telly mathmo).