Tompkins Table

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The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking that lists the colleges of the University of Cambridge in order of their students' performances in that year's examinations. It was created in 1981 by Peter Tompkins, an undergraduate mathematics student, and is compiled exclusively for the newspaper The Independent.^[1]

1 The rankings
2 Norrington Table
3 References
4 External links

[edit] The rankings

Initially, it only included final year exams but since 1997 has covered all exams for which grades are allocated. The table allocates 5 points for a First Class degree, 3 points for an Upper Second (known also as a 2-1), 2 points for a Lower Second (a 2-2), 1 point for a Third and no points for someone only granted an allowance towards an Ordinary Degree. The scores in each subject are then weighted to a common average, to avoid the bias towards colleges with higher proportions of students entered for subjects which receive higher average grades. The result is expressed as a percentage of the total number of points available. It should be noted that the differences between the highest places on the table are usually very slight. Over the twenty years that this table has been running, Christ's College has averaged to be the top College for academic excellence. The rankings are not officially endorsed by the University.

Below is the table for 2007 :

Position	College	Tompkins Score (%)	Firsts (%)
1	Emmanuel College	66.62	29.5
2	Christ’s College	66.33	28.7
3	Downing College	66.18	25.1
4	Selwyn College	66.12	23.1
5	St Catharine’s College	66.10	25.1
6	Trinity College	65.87	27.6
7	Pembroke College	65.60	26.6
8	Corpus Christi College	65.57	25.9
9	Jesus College	65.47	24.9
10	Gonville & Caius College	65.03	24.5
11	Queens’ College	64.25	24.4
12	Sidney Sussex College	64.11	21.8
13	Magdalene College	63.98	20.1
14	Fitzwilliam College	63.96	23.6
15	Churchill College	63.76	24.9
16	Trinity Hall	63.36	20.4
17	Clare College	62.63	19.4
18	King’s College	62.37	20.9
19	St John’s College	61.82	18.3
20	Robinson College	61.25	18.5
21	Girton College	61.06	15.9
22	Newnham College	59.99	14.7
23	New Hall	59.37	14.4
24	Lucy Cavendish College	58.92	14.8
25	Peterhouse	58.85	12.7
26	Homerton College	58.33	10.5
27	Wolfson College	55.92	11.1
28	St Edmund’s College	51.57	7.4
29	Hughes Hall	49.38	8.9

College	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Christ’s College	1	1	4	2	2	4	6	2
Churchill College	15	9	10	9	19	18	13	15
Clare College	9	6	3	6	4	9	12	17
Corpus Christi College	10	20	18	7	10	16	8	8
Downing College	8	10	8	12	17	15	11	3
Emmanuel College	3	2	2	1	1	5	1	1
Fitzwilliam College	21	13	20	20	15	13	19	14
Girton College	18	17	16	17	25	24	22	21
Gonville and Caius College	12	8	7	4	5	2	2	10
Homerton College				25	24	26	25	26
Hughes Hall				27	27	29	29	29
Jesus College	13	11	9	10	9	7	10	9
King’s College	20	21	14	16	20	10	17	18
Lucy Cavendish College				26	26	27	26	24
Magdalene College	22	22	15	18	22	20	20	13
New Hall	16	23	24	24	23	25	24	23
Newnham College	24	24	22	21	13	21	23	22
Pembroke College	6	7	1	3	6	6	4	7
Peterhouse	14	19	23	22	21	22	21	25
Queens’ College	5	5	5	5	8	8	14	11
Robinson College	19	14	21	23	16	11	18	20
St Catharine’s College	11	18	12	11	7	1	3	5
St Edmund’s College				29	29	28	28	28
St John’s College	4	4	11	13	14	12	15	19
Selwyn College	7	12	13	14	11	19	7	4
Sidney Sussex College	23	16	19	15	18	14	9	12
Trinity College	2	3	6	8	3	3	5	6
Trinity Hall	17	15	17	19	12	17	16	16
Wolfson College				28	28	23	27	27

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[edit] Norrington Table

The corresponding rankings for the University of Oxford is the Norrington Table. Since Oxford adopted split second-class degrees in 1986, the Norrington Table has adopted the Tompkins Table method of scoring, but without the weighting attached to individual subject scores.