Murray Edwards College | |
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University of Cambridge | |
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 | |
Location | Huntingdon Road, Cambridge (map) |
Full name | Murray Edwards College, founded as New Hall, in the University of Cambridge[1] |
Abbreviation | MUR[2] |
Established | 1954 |
Named after |
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Gender | Women |
Sister college | St Anne's College, Oxford |
President | Dorothy Byrne[3] |
Undergraduates | 397 (2022–23) |
Postgraduates | 172 (2022–23) |
Endowment | £55m (2020)[4] |
Website | murrayedwards |
Student union | mecsu |
MCR | memcr |
Boat club | mecbc |
Map | |
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.