The University of Cambridge is a public research university in the city of Cambridge, England. It is the second oldest university in the English speaking world and was founded in 1209, making it the fourth oldest surviving university. Its roots were in a group of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with locals and set up their own university. None of the individual colleges are as old as the university itself, though Peterhouse is the oldest, founded by the Bishop of Ely in 1284. As well as close ties with Oxford, the university is also part of the League of European Research Universities and has strong links with the high-tech business area known as Silicon Fen.
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