Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

Murray Edwards College
University of Cambridge
Fountain Court in July 2019
Fountain Court in July 2019
Arms of Murray Edwards College
Scarf colours: three equally-spaced narrow stripes separating two black areas towards the edge and two blue areas in the middle, the outer stripes of yellow and the central stripe of red
LocationHuntingdon Road, Cambridge (map)
Full nameMurray Edwards College, founded as New Hall, in the University of Cambridge[1]
AbbreviationMUR[2]
Established1954
Named after
GenderWomen
Sister collegeSt Anne's College, Oxford
PresidentDorothy Byrne[3]
Undergraduates397 (2022–23)
Postgraduates172 (2022–23)
Endowment£55m (2020)[4]
Websitemurrayedwards.cam.ac.uk
Student unionmecsu.weebly.com
MCRmemcr.soc.srcf.net
Boat clubmecbc.soc.srcf.net
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Murray Edwards College, Cambridge is located in Cambridge
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Location in Cambridge

Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge.[5] It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008. The name honours a gift of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, and the first President and woman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Rosemary Murray.

  1. ^ "The Edwards' Endowment". Murray Edwards College website. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  2. ^ University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Dorothy Byrne admitted as President of Murray Edwards College". Murray Edwards College. University of Cambridge. 16 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Annual report and Financial Statements Year ended 30 June 2020" (PDF). Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  5. ^ Walker, Timea (20 January 2022). "Murray Edwards College". www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

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