[13] Jesus College admits undergraduate and graduate students to all subjects at the university though typically accepts a larger number of students for engineering, medicine, law, natural sciences, mathematics, economics, history, languages, and human, social and political sciences.

The library was designed by Eldred Evans and David Shalev in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the college in 1996.

These include football, rugby, cricket, tennis, squash, basketball and hockey pitches.

[19] The college grounds also include a nature trail, inspired by poetry composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his time as a student.

A major addition to the College – the largest in modern times – is the West Court development, which was officially opened in October 2017 by HRH the Earl of Wessex.

Its facilities include a 180-seat lecture theatre, medical teaching suite, guest and conference accommodation, a café bar, research space and student social areas.

[21] The development is built on part of the site of Wesley House, the freehold of which had previously belonged to the College and was returned to it in 2014.

[22] The College Chapel was founded in 1157 and took until 1245 to complete, and is believed to be the oldest university building in Cambridge still in use.

Originally it was the chapel of the Benedictine Convent of St. Mary and St. Radegund, which was dissolved by Bishop John Alcock.

The original structure of the chapel was cruciform in shape and the nave had both north and south aisles.

Repairs were also undertaken by George Frederick Bodley between 1864 and 1867, who commissioned decorative schemes from Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.[23] The same firm returned in the 1870s to install stained glass.

[25] The chapel, famed for its warm but clean acoustics, is also a much sought-after space for concerts and recitals, as well as recordings.

[26] Between September 2009 and December 2016 Mark Williams, former assistant organist at St Paul's Cathedral, served as director of music,[28] being succeeded by Richard Pinel, former assistant organist at St George's Chapel, Windsor and Organ Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, in January 2017.

Peter D. Mitchell, an undergraduate and later research student, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1978).

Professor Glanville Williams, described as Britain's foremost scholar of criminal law,[33] was a Fellow from 1957 to 1978.

The Glanville Williams Society, consisting of current and former members of Jesus College, meets annually in his honour.