For details of this day, please send your name, intended subject and s.a.e. in advance. Pembroke is a lively and friendly community with high academic standards, housed on an extensive and leafy central site, with attractive buildings spanning the centuries since our foundation in 1347. Although in 1555 one Pembroke Master had the misfortune of being burnt at the stake for his beliefs, the College itself has a reputation for being a friendly and tolerant place. The college is conveniently close to the main scientific teaching areas, the Engineering Department, most of the Arts faculties and the city centre, but off the main tourist track. The buildings are arranged on a site plan that unfolds through informal open-sided courts into beautiful gardens, with plenty of quiet places to sit.
Music is a particular strength, with fortnightly music evenings and frequent concerts.
The choir regularly tours abroad. There are strong traditions in intercollegiate sports, and good facilities to support them, including a multigym on site. Plays are performed in the garden in the summer. Pembroke has also produced a distinguished roster of actors and comedians, and some fine poets and journalists. The College Tutors are only too aware of the increasing financial pressures on students, and Pembroke has recently increased the funds available, both for scholarships and prizes for those who do well academically, and for bursaries for those in financial need.