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Colleges of the University of Cambridge St Edmund's College
College name	St Edmund's College
Motto	Per Revelationem et Rationem (Latin: Through revelation and reason)
Founder	Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk and Baron Anatole von Hügel
Named after	Saint Edmund of Abingdon
Established	1896
Previously named	St. Edmund's House
Location	Mt Pleasant
Admittance	Men and women (aged 21 or over)
Master	Prof. J Paul Luzio
Undergraduates	100
Graduates	230
Sister college	Green College, Oxford
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Saint Edmund's College is a college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1896 as a residential hall of residence by Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk and Baron Anatole von Hügel. It gained full collegiate status in 1996.

St Edmund's College is one of four Cambridge colleges oriented to mature students, only accepting those reading for undergraduate, Masters or Doctorate degrees if they are 21 or older. (Two other colleges cater to graduate students only.) Over three-quarters of the students are studying towards a higher degrees, usually the PhD, MPhil or LLM degrees. It is located about 15 minutes' walk northwest of the centre of Cambridge.

St Edmund's has students from more than 60 countries. The full spectrum of academic subjects is represented in the College. The Fellowship of the College (academic staff) represents many academic disciplines, spread across arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and especially veterinary medicine.

According to its promotional materials, the college is known for its friendly atmosphere^{[citation needed]}, which reflects its history and traditions. Whilst Fellows at most colleges in the University dine on 'High Table' (separately from the students), St Edmunds has no such division, and undergraduates, postgraduates and Fellows alike mix over dinner and other social activities. In fact, Fellows and Masters are even known to put on a pantomime for students every year in the college Combination Room (CR).

In keeping with almost all Colleges in Cambridge, St Edmund's has a chapel for Christian worship. In Cambridge St Edmund's is unique in following the Catholic tradition rather than the Anglican tradition.

Sir Martin Evans, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is a former fellow of the college.

The cosmologist Georges Lemaître is a former graduate student 1923-24, supervised by Sir Arthur Eddington.

The college is sometimes informally called 'Eddies' or 'Ed’s'.

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