Colleges of the University of Cambridge ones admit both male and female students as both undergraduates and postgraduates, without any age restrictions. Eight colleges restrict entry by sex, or by age of undergraduates, or admit only postgraduates: No colleges are all-male, although most originally were. Darwin, founded in 1964, was the first mixed college, while in 1972 Churchill, Clare and King's colleges were the first previously all-male colleges to admit women. The last all-male college to become mixed was Magdalene, in 1988. In 1973 Hughes Hall became the first all-female college to admit men, and Girton admitted men in 1976. Lucy Cavendish also places restrictions on
Cavendish College, Cambridge used as a training college, Homerton College, for women teachers, which in 2010 finally became a full college of Cambridge University. Cavendish College, Cambridge Cavendish College, Cambridge was a college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded by the British clergyman, educational reformer and writer Joseph Lloyd Brereton and was intended to connect the county school system with the universities. After an unsuccessful attempt at Oxford, he founded it at Cambridge in 1873. It was to be a 'county' college, and was named after the chancellor of the university, William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire. Brereton described his scheme