Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
| Murray Edwards College | |
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| University of Cambridge | |
Fountain Court in July 2019 | |
Arms: Sable a Dolphin palewise head downwards to the dexter in chief three Mullets fesswise a Bordure embattled Argent | |
| 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 |
| Abbreviation | MUR |
| Established | 1954 |
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| Gender | Women |
| Sister college | St Anne's College, Oxford |
| President | Rachel Polonsky (acting) |
| Undergraduates | 397 (2022–23) |
| Postgraduates | 172 (2022–23) |
| Endowment | £58.3m (2024) |
| Website | murrayedwards |
| Student union | mecsu |
| MCR | memcr |
| Boat club | Murray Edwards College Boat Club |
| Map | |
Location in Cambridge | |
Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. 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, Dame Rosemary Murray.