Founded in 1347 by Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke. Called Marie Valence Hall, it changed its name to Pembroke Hall sometime before 1856. Sister College – Queen's College, Oxford. Men and women – Undergraduates 430 Postgraduates 250. When Pembroke was originally founded on Christmas Eve 1347, it favored gifted students born in France and strongly disapproved of excessive drinking and frequenting disreputable houses. It was founded by Marie de St Pol, widow of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, under a license granted by Edward III. The institution was originally known as Hall of Valence Mary, later renamed Pembroke Hall and then became Pembroke College in 1856. One of the university's finest achievements. Today Pembroke is equally focused on high academic achievement, placing great importance on providing an environment that fosters success. Students not only enjoy intellectual challenges, but are also encouraged to engage in extracurricular activities such as music, sports and drama. The college has a consistent track record of being a top performing university. Enrollments are now encouraged from all sides with a 57% enrollment from state schools and a more or less even gender gap, women were first admitted in 1983. There are 250 graduate and 430 undergraduate students. The youngest ever British Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, studied at Pembroke and resided until election as MP in 1780, eventually becoming Prime Minister in 1783. Pembroke Women's College at Brown University USA is named after the institution of Cambridge. Pembroke is the university's third oldest and one of the wealthiest, occupying a large and architecturally varied site, just 5 minutes' walk from the market square. It has a traditional...... half paper...... library, a new hall, a new manor house and the residential block known as the Gothic Revival Red Building. George Gilbert Scott, the younger, added the free-form hybrid classical New Court in 1880, complete with angels, grotesques, and curly Dutch gables above the windows. The red-brick Tudor-style Pitt building, finished in 1907, was described by Trinity-trained W. D. Caroe as a "...consummate master of building according to medieval precedents". The crisp, modern buildings, stripped of detail, rising in the south-east corner with a hint of classical form and volume are Foundress Court, completed in 1997. Accommodation varies by cost and is provided for all first years on site, with subsequent years housed in off-site rooms. The college has five times as many applicants as places available and offers successful students a hands-on, supportive approach to education.