page_title: St Catharine's College, Cambridge
section_title: Student life
hierarchical_section_title: St Catharine's College, Cambridge / Student life
caption_attribution_description: English: The chapel in St Catherine's College, Cambridge. This is a photo of listed building number 1125480.
context_page_description: St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Cambridge, and lies just south of King's College and across the street from Corpus Christi College. The college is notable for its open court that faces towards Trumpington Street.
  St Catharine's is unique in being the only Oxbridge college founded by the serving head of another college. The college community is moderately sized, consisting of approximately 70 fellows, 150 graduate students, and 410 undergraduates.
context_section_description: The college maintains a friendly rivalry with Queens’ College after the construction of the main court of St Catharine's College on Cambridge’s former High Street relegated one side of Queens' College into a back alley. A more modern rivalry with Robinson College resulted from the construction in the 1970s of a modern block of flats named St Chad’s (in which the rooms are octagonal to resemble the wheel on the college crest) by the University Library.
  The college has a strong reputation in hockey and racquet sports, in part due to its facilities for these sports including grass tennis courts and an astroturf hockey pitch. The football club is one of the largest sporting clubs at the college. In 2018 the first team were in the 2nd division and the second team were in the 4th division. The team enjoyed its most dominant years in the late 1970s winning Cuppers 4 times consecutively from 1975-1978. St Catharine's College Boat Club, the college boat club, hosts the Cardinals Regatta each year, in which teams compete along a short course in fancy dress with an emphasis on bribery to secure victory. The college's Boat Club is moderately strong, with both Men's and Women's 1st boats generally residing in the middle of the 1st division of the May Bumps races.
  The college hosts several other notable societies. The Shirley Society is the college literary society, the oldest in Cambridge, it regularly hosts significant figures from the arts world throughout the academic year. The college-based girls' choir is the first of its kind in a UK university and is composed of girls aged 8–14 from local schools.
caption: Chapel at the college
exif: {"Image Make": "HTC", "Image Model": "HTC Rhyme S510b", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery 6.0.6001.18000", "Image DateTime": "2015:09:15 18:07:26", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "2318", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0]", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[52, 12, 561/50]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "E", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[0, 7, 8/5]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "0", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[7, 23, 53]", "GPS GPSMapDatum": "WGS-84", "GPS GPSProcessingMethod": "[65, 83, 67, 73, 73, 0, 0, 0, 78, 69, 84, 87, 79, 82, 75]", "GPS GPSDate": "2015:09:10", "Image GPSInfo": "4630", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "96", "Thumbnail YResolution": "96", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "4980", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "2536", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "215", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2015:09:10 08:23:53", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2015:09:10 08:23:53", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF FocalLength": "303/100", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "752", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1264", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "4576", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "396E3EF940F44CA4A6A33104A918747D", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}