Tompkins Table

The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking table for the University of Cambridge. Considering this is the individual colleges of the University of Cambridge with their undergraduates represent their performance in annual final exams at the University a crucial indicator in the ranking. Was named the Tompkins Table by Peter Tompkins, an undergraduate in mathematics, who called this ranking into being in 1981.

The Tompkins Table appears exclusively for the British quality newspaper "The Independent".

The counterpart in Oxford for the Tompkins Table is called Norrington Table, which was formed in 1986.

Method

A First Class degree in a final exam of the undergraduates is rated with five points. Three points will be awarded an Upper Second ( 2-1). A Lower Second ( 2-2) gets two points and one point there is a third. The evaluated points in each subject are independent, since one on here takes into consideration that the proportion of study subjects is college dependent. For example, the tray is not available Geography in Pembroke College ( Cambridge ) and Peter House. Furthermore, it is important to remember that in some subjects is more difficult to achieve a first class degree than in others.

The Tompkins scores in the table as a result express the achieved percentage of the total -to-reach points of colleges in the rankings. The higher the percentage of a college, the higher up it is in the Tompkins Table.

In recent years, Emmanuel College is the best place, followed by Trinity College at No. 2 since only the benefits are investigated by undergraduates, 29 colleges of in total 31 colleges of the University of Cambridge on the Tompkins Table are present. Two colleges, namely Clare Hall and Darwin, are exclusively for postgraduates and is therefore not represented in the ranking.

The college ranking à la Tompkins is not representative, as St. Edmund 's College, Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, and Wolfson College, the so-called Mature are colleges which allow only students beyond the age limit of 21 years to enroll and undergraduates thus not a majority of colleges represent what explains the position of these colleges at the bottom of the Tompkins table.

Rankings

Tompkins Table of 2010: