Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
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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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  Location in Cambridge | ||||||||
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