Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Trinity is larger than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 660 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 160 Fellows. It is also the wealthiest Oxbridge college by far with an estimated financial endowment of approx. £700 million, in addition to which Trinity's land is insured for approx. £266.5 million (this does not include all fixed assets). Trinity considers itself to be "a world-leading academic institution with an outstanding record of education, learning and research" , and on a per-student basis, is one of the best-endowed educational institutions in the worldcitation needed]. Like its sister college, Christ Church, Oxford, it has traditionally been considered the most aristocratic of the Cambridge colleges. King Edward VII, King George VI and Prince Charles all attended it, though the proportion of state school to public school pupils is now roughly equal, in line with most other Cambridge colleges.

The college is a major landowner, including holdings in the port of Felixstowe, and the Cambridge Science Park. Trinity has a very strong academic tradition, with members having won thirty-one Nobel Prizes (more than most countries, with the exception of the United States, Germany, and France, and not counting the United Kingdom), five Fields Medals (mathematics), one Abel Prize (mathematics) and two Templeton Prizes (religion). Trinity has many distinguished alumni – the most notable being Sir Isaac Newton.

Trinity has many college societies, and its rowing club is the First and Third Trinity Boat Club. Trinity's May Ball, named after the Boat Club, is the largest and most traditional of Cambridge's May Balls.

The first formalized version of the rules of football, known as the Cambridge Rules, was drawn up by Cambridge student representatives of leading public schools at Trinity College in 1848.