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Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
College of the University of Cambridge / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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University of Cambridge | ||||||||
![]() 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
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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 | |||||||
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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 | |||||||
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