About Pembroke

Pembroke has a long and distinguished history. Its poets and politicians, its mathematics and its music, have won the College a reputation for various distinction. Pembroke is also well known for relaxed but disciplined achievement, in academic life and beyond. Pembroke today is committed to building on those traditions of diversity in excellence.

The College site, a quiet and welcoming series of open courts built around beautiful gardens, is an important part of this story. A tour might include the Old Library, parts of which date from the fourteenth century, and Christopher Wren's baroque chapel. Foundress Court, completed in 1997 to mark the College's six hundred and fiftieth anniversary, provides a new Master's Lodge and modern accommodation for ninety undergraduates. Alfred Waterhouse's Victorian Library has recently undergone imaginative renovation and expansion, to meet the needs of a new century.

But the real heart of the College remains the people who live and work in this environment. Pembroke is, in Cambridge terms, a medium-sized College. Our students - numbering some four hundred and twenty undergraduates, and two hundred graduates - ensure that there is nothing average about the range of talents on display here, drawn from every kind of background and from all over the world. What unites them with Pembroke's sixty-five Fellows and a notably friendly College staff is membership of a College that shares a common conviction. Excellence, whether in the laboratory or library or in any of the arenas represented on these pages, always requires and repays an individual's passion. But it also thrives on encouragement; and sometimes it needs the kind of pastoral care or financial support, administered with an eye for individual need, that Pembroke is committed to provide. People excel at Pembroke because they feel at home here, and continue to do so, whatever their talents, and wherever their talents take them in after years.

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