Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
CHAPTER II
pp. 172–173
MATRICULATION, RESIDENCE, ADMISSION TO DEGREES, DISCIPLINE, CONDUCT, COMPLAINTS

RESIDENCE AND PRECINCTS OF THE UNIVERSITY

Amended by Grace 7 of 24 July 2019

Terms of residence.

1. A person who is required by Statute, Ordinance or Regulation to keep certain terms by Residence shall be deemed to have kept a term by residence if he or she has resided within the University Precincts during such part (being not less than three-fourths) of that term, and in such manner, as the University may prescribe by Ordinance. The University may prescribe by Ordinance areas in and about Cambridge (not necessarily within the University Precincts) within which terms of residence may be kept by specified classes of person, and the University may delegate the power to determine that terms of residence may be kept in exceptional cases elsewhere than within the University Precincts or the prescribed areas. The terms ‘reside’, ‘residence’, and ‘University Precincts’ shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Ordinance.

Boundaries for keeping terms.

2. 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.

3. A person keeping terms by residence who is pursuing a course leading to the LL.M., M.A.St., M.C.L., M.Eng., M.Sci., M.Math., 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 College1 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,1 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 University Hospital, Associate Teaching Hospital or Associate Teaching General Practice;
  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.

4. 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 3, 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

Certificate of residence.

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

9. Save as may otherwise be provided for,2

  1. (a)no one shall be admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Medicine or Surgery, or Master of Advanced Study or Accounting or Business Administration (having followed a one-year 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 Business or 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.

10. 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 8(a) above for any of the degrees of Master of Letters or Master of Science or Doctor of Business 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.

Footnotes

  1. 1. Or Approved Society.a b
  2. 2. See also the regulations for Affiliated Students (p. 165).a