Darwin College (other)
Darwin College may refer to: * Darwin College, Cambridge, England, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge * Darwin College, Kent * Darwin Community College, a predecessor of Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia * Darwin College (Mauritius) * Darwin College, a fictional college in the film ''Horse Feathers ''Horse Feathers'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring the Marx Brothers. It stars the Four Marx Brothers ( Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo), Thelma Todd and David Landau. It was written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S. J. Per ...

Darwin College, Cambridge
Darwin College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded on 28 July 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and women. The college is named after the family of Charles Darwin who previously owned some of the land, Newnham Grange, on which the college now stands. The college has between 650 and 800 students, mostly studying for Doctor of Philosophy, PhD or Master of Philosophy, MPhil degrees with strengths in the sciences, humanities, and law. Darwin is the largest graduate college of Cambridge. Darwin's sister college at Oxford University is Wolfson College, Oxford, Wolfson College. Members of Darwin College are termed ''Darwinians'' and alumni include British primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall, American conservationist Dian Fossey, Barbadian Governor-General Elliott Belgrave, Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize winner Eric ...
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Darwin College, Kent
Darwin College is the fourth-oldest college of the University of Kent, an English higher education institution in the United Kingdom. It was opened in 1970. Namesake After much debate, the college was named after Charles Darwin, the biologist.Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' (University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990) page 125-126 Unusually for a namesake of a Kent college, Darwin had strong connections to the historic county of Kent, having lived in Down House at Downe (now in the London Borough of Bromley) for the last forty years of his life. Other names considered in the lengthy process included: * Anselm, after Anselm a former Archbishop of Canterbury * Attlee, after Clement Attlee, the post-war prime minister * Becket, after Thomas Becket, former Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in the city's cathedral and subsequently canonised (this was the recommendation of the college's provisional committee but was reje ...
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Charles Darwin University
Charles Darwin University (CDU) is an Australian public university with two campuses in Darwin and six satellite campuses in metropolitan and regional areas of the Northern Territory. It was established in 2003 after the merger of Northern Territory University, the Menzies School of Health Research, and Centralian College. It is the largest tertiary education provider in the Northern Territory and offers both academic degree and vocational education programs. It has close ties to First Nations learning and research, is a member of the Northern Australia Universities Alliance, and specialises in tropical savanna environments. History Charles Darwin University evolved through the merger of several NT-based higher education institutions. Darwin Community College Darwin Community College, situated on what would become the site of Charles Darwin University’s Casuarina campus, was founded in 1974. In 1985, it evolved into the Darwin Institute of Technology, offering a mix of Col ...
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Darwin College (Mauritius)
Darwin College may refer to: * Darwin College, Cambridge, England, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge * Darwin College, Kent * Darwin Community College, a predecessor of Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia * Darwin College (Mauritius) * Darwin College, a fictional college in the film ''Horse Feathers ''Horse Feathers'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring the Marx Brothers. It stars the Four Marx Brothers ( Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo), Thelma Todd and David Landau. It was written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S. J. Per ...