Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
CHAPTER II
MATRICULATION, RESIDENCE, ADMISSION TO DEGREES, DISCIPLINE

PRECINCTS OF THE UNIVERSITY AND RESIDENCE

Grace 3 of 8 July 2009

Boundaries for keeping terms.

1. The Precincts of the University shall be the area within a boundary defined as extending three miles from Great St Mary's Church, measured in a straight line, and as including Madingley Hall and such other places about Cambridge as may from time to time be determined by Grace, or by such authority as may be provided by Grace, whether generally or with respect to particular persons or classes of persons.

2. A person keeping terms by residence who is pursuing a course leading to the LL.M., M.Eng., M.Sci., 〈M.Math.,〉8 Vet.M.B., Mus.B., B.A., or B.Th. Degree, or the M.B., B.Chir. Degrees (if pursuing his or her clinical studies in the University) shall reside within the Precincts of the University

  1. (a)in the College9 of which he or she is a member, or in a building provided and controlled by that College as a hostel;
  2. or(b)in any of the following places which shall be recognized as houses of residence for such number of students in each case as the Council, after consultation with the Accommodation Syndicate, may from time to time determine: Margaret Beaufort Institute, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Ridley Hall, Wesley House, Westcott House, and Westminster College;
  3. or(c)with the permission of his or her College,9 in other accommodation within the Precincts of the University, not being part of any College; provided that, before granting such permission, the College authorities must be satisfied with the arrangements for observing the normal conditions of residence;
  4. or(d)in any hospital or nursing home within the precincts of the University, or in any hospital of the Cambridge University Hospitals and Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts and Cambridgeshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trusts, or, as a student for the M.B., B.Chir. Degrees only, in the West Suffolk Hospital;
  5. or(e)in exceptional circumstances, and for grave cause approved by the student's College, in some other place outside the Precincts of the University.

3. A person keeping terms by residence who is pursuing a course leading to a qualification of the University other than a degree or degrees specified in Regulation 2, or who is a registered Graduate Student pursuing a course that is not leading to a qualification of the University, or who is the possessor of the status of Master of Arts, shall not be subject to the conditions of place prescribed by that regulation but shall reside in the area within a boundary defined as extending ten miles from Great St Mary's Church, measured in a straight line; provided that in exceptional circumstances, and for grave cause approved by the Board of Graduate Studies in the case of a Graduate Student or otherwise by the student's College, such a person may be granted permission to reside outside that area.

Days of residence.

4. Residence shall be reckoned by days. No person keeping terms by residence shall be considered to have resided during any day unless he or she has resided during some part of such day and of the following night and has complied with such other conditions of residence, if any, as may be required by the authorities of his or her College; provided that a part of the day on which such a person completes his or her residence for the term may be counted as a day of residence.

5. For the purpose of reckoning residence the day shall be held to extend from 6 a.m. to midnight.

Certificate of residence.

6. Residence shall be certified to the University under the hand of the Head of the College to which the student belongs.

7. Save as may otherwise be provided for,10

  1. (a)no one shall be admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Medicine or Surgery, or Master of Advanced Study or Business Administration (having followed a one-year or two-year integrated course of study prescribed by Ordinance) or Finance or Law or Research, or to the degrees of Master of Letters or Science or Philosophy, or Doctor of Philosophy having followed a full-time course, or to the degree of Doctor of Engineering, unless he or she has kept three terms at least by residence;
  2. (b)no one shall be admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Theology for Ministry unless he or she has kept five terms at least by residence;
  3. (c)no one shall be admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts or Music or Veterinary Medicine unless he or she has kept nine terms at least by residence;
  4. (d)no one shall be admitted to the degree of Master of Engineering or Mathematics or Natural Sciences unless he or she has kept twelve terms at least by residence.

8. A Graduate Student may be granted in respect of work done in the University before matriculation an allowance of not more than three terms towards the three terms required to be kept under paragraph 7(a) above for any of the degrees of Master of Letters or Master of Science or Doctor of Engineering or Doctor of Philosophy, and an allowance of not more than one term towards the number of terms required to be kept for the degree of Master of Philosophy which requires a two-year course of study.

9. The Council may grant allowances of terms as follows:

  1. (a)On account of illness or other grave cause, the Council may grant (i) one or two terms to any candidate for a degree who but for such allowance would be required to keep more than six terms by actual residence, (ii) one term to any candidate for a degree who but for such allowance would be required to keep six or fewer terms by actual residence.
  2. (b)On the recommendation of the Faculty Board or comparable authority concerned, the Council may allow not more than three terms to any candidate for a degree who but for such allowance would be required to keep six or more terms by actual residence and who since matriculation has pursued a course or courses of study outside the University under the direction of that Faculty Board or comparable authority.
  3. (c)In circumstances which interfere with the normal tenor of residence of a large number of students, the Council may grant allowances of terms, in addition to the allowances hereinbefore provided, to students who fulfil such conditions as the Council may specify.〉11

Footnotes

  1. 8. The words in angular brackets will be inserted subject to the approval by Her Majesty in Council of the amendments of Statute approved by Grace 4 of 11 March 2009.a b c
  2. 9. Or Approved Society.a b
  3. 10. See also the regulations for Affiliated Students.a
  4. 11. Subject to the approval by Her Majesty in Council of the amendments of Statute approved by Grace 4 of 11 March 2009 the regulations in angular brackets will be inserted with effect from the date of the approval.a