Editing King's College, Cambridge (section)

== Academic profile ==
The unofficial [[Tompkins Table]] comparing academic performance ranked King's 12th out of a total of 29 rated colleges at the University of Cambridge in 2019. In terms of first-class degrees, King's ranked 9th in the university with 31.3% of final year students achieving a first.

King's offers all undergraduate courses available at the university, except for [[education]], land economy and [[veterinary medicine]], although Directors of Studies for Anglo-Saxon Norse & Celtic and Management Studies visit from other colleges. With more than 100 fellows and some 420 undergraduate students, King's has one of the highest ratios of fellows to students of all the Cambridge colleges.

Since its foundation, the college has housed a library, providing books for all students, covering all the subjects offered by King's. Around 130,000 books are held: some available for teaching and for reference, others being rare books and [[manuscript]]s. The library operates a user-oriented purchasing policy: students and Directors of Studies recommend new purchases in their subject.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/library/recommend.html|title=Library recommendations|work=King's College, Cambridge|access-date=14 September 2014}}</ref> There is both Wi-Fi and Ethernet internet access throughout the library as well as a library computer room.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/library/internet.html|title=Internet Access|work=King's College, Cambridge|access-date=14 September 2014|archive-date=14 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814003513/http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/library/internet.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Special collections include a separate Music Library, the Keynes Library, a Global Warming collection, and an Audio Visual Library.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/library/special-collections.html|title=Special Collections|work=King's College, Cambridge|access-date=14 September 2014}}</ref>