This breadth allows you to choose from an exceptionally wide variety of options, and thus to a great extent to design your own programme of study. The Triposes are divided into blocks lasting one or two years. In order to achieve a Cambridge BA Honours degree, it is necessary to pass two parts, lasting not less than three years in all.
Most students take successive parts of the same Tripos.
Some popular combinations are noted under the course descriptions that follow. You need the permission of the college authorities concerned to change, as they will want to be confident that, having done well in the first subject, you are competent to embark on the second and do well in that too. More detailed information on courses is available on the University's web site and on paper from Departments and Faculties. Whatever subject you read at Cambridge, you will have the opportunity to be taught by experts who are at the cutting edge of research in their field. Those who lecture and supervise include some of the country's leading authorities in your field, and many of them are internationally renowned experts.