Homerton College

The best thing about Homerton is everyone is so friendly it feels more like an extended family than a College. Being slightly out of the centre has the benefit of lots more space and Homerton has tennis courts and a full-size football pitch on-site.Ian

Homerton is the most recent College of the University, but we've been in Cambridge for well over 100 years. The College has been many different kinds of institution in its history – from being a 'dissenting academy' in London, to being probably the best known teacher training College in the country. And now we are a full College of the University of Cambridge; one of its largest and most diverse, accepting students to most courses offered by the University, while still maintaining our commitment to public service and the social sciences

We offer our students a chance to mould our future. We have a few long-established traditions, but as each new generation of students arrives we look with them at new ways of being an academic community; enhancing what's already one of the liveliest and most vibrant places for living and learning in the University.

Homerton is a green oasis on the south side of the city, between the station and Addenbrooke's Hospital, with spacious grounds through which all College members can roam (even walking on the grass!). Our buildings are a mixture of old and new, with a fine Victorian building at the College's heart to which we've added attractive new accommodation blocks. These offer individual study bedrooms with en suite bathrooms and all the necessary links to the wider world that technology allows. Living in College is overwhelmingly popular, not just for the comfortable rooms, but for the full social and intellectual life that the College offers.

We have the usual facilities, such as sports grounds and equipment (more unusually the sports grounds are on-site), a theatre and dance studio, art and music rooms. We have an airy and large College library. We also have excellent audio-visual facilities. Our students take full advantage of these to play hard as well as work hard.

Homerton has always been an open and friendly place; a place to become what you want to be with the support of the whole community. Our students are encouraged to participate fully in the life of the College, either taking part in its decision-making through the Students' Union, or enriching the local and wider society with their multitude of interests, skills and enthusiasms. As Homerton develops it will stay a place where doors are open, where nobody is too grand to talk to you, and where each student can develop to their full potential in supportive and beautiful surroundings.

Factfile

UCAS campus code H Courses available The College accepts applications for all courses except Architecture, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Open days 2011 Booking required. See the College website for further information All subjects 8 July, 13 September (afternoon only) See also Cambridge Open Days Student numbers 600 undergraduate, 500 PGCE and other graduate courses. For men and women. Principal Dr Kate Pretty CBE Senior Tutor Dr Peter Warner Admissions Tutor Mr Steve Watts

Directors of Studies Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic Dr R Dance† Archaeology & Anthropology Dr B Stewart Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Dr N Auty† Chemical Engineering Dr S Rough† Classics Dr P Steele† Computer Science Dr R Harle† Economics Dr A Moheeput Education Mrs A Thwaites Engineering Dr D Wynn English Dr D Clifford Geography Dr M Warrington History Dr W Foster History of Art Dr M Harle† Land Economy Dr U Pascual Law Dr R Williams Linguistics Dr B Vaux† Management Studies Dr S Zyglidopoulos Manufacturing Engineering Dr T Hacking Mathematics Dr S Wadsley Modern & Medieval Languages Dr O Tonneau Music Dr J E Hopkins Natural Sciences Dr P Barton Philosophy Dr R Jennings† Politics, Psychology & Sociology Dr P Watson Theology & Religious Studies Dr T Graumann † external Director of Studies