That is, in a university, you have separate schools like Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Humanities, and so on.
Each school is strong in its own specialty, with almost no overlap in core subjects.
But this model doesn't quite fit the many colleges of the University of Cambridge.
Take the 18 colleges of Cambridge in 1850 as an example.
These colleges have a high degree of administrative autonomy; each one can essentially be seen as a miniature university:
They all offer physics, chemistry, mathematics, history, and a series of other subjects—there's no such thing as strict functional division.
It's just that some colleges are stronger in certain subjects, while others are weaker.
At most, the divinity college adds a theology course, but let's not get into that now.
Currently, there are 16 colleges at the University of Cambridge with mathematics departments, and the teaching assignments are all decided by the college leadership.
