Restrictions On Entry
All 16 old colleges and 8 of the 15 new ones admit both male and female students as both undergraduates and postgraduates, without any age restrictions. Seven colleges, all new, restrict entry by sex or age, or admit only postgraduates:
- three admit only women (Murray Edwards, Newnham and Lucy Cavendish);
- of these, one admits only women who are either mature students, i.e. aged 21 or older, or postgraduates (Lucy Cavendish);
- two admit only postgraduates (Clare Hall and Darwin);
- three admit both male and female students, but only those who are either mature students or postgraduates (Hughes Hall, St Edmund’s and Wolfson).
No colleges are all-male, although most originally were. Darwin, founded in 1964, was the first mixed college, while in 1972 Churchill, Clare and King's colleges were the first previously all-male colleges to admit women. The last all-male college to become mixed was Magdalene, in 1988.
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