Welcome to Magdalene College MCR!

Magdalene MCR is the postgraduate community of Magdalene College Cambridge. We organise social events throughout the year, provide welfare and academic support, and have a shared physical room for relaxing and mingling (also called the MCR). We pride ourselves on having the most close-knit community of all the MCRs in Cambridge!

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Welcome to our new students!

We look forward to welcoming our 2025 freshers in the coming weeks! Please see the links below for our schedule of welcome events and welcome guide. Details for our welcome events are also shown in the Events section of this website. Feel free to get in touch with one of our committee members if you have any questions.

Freshers' Schedule
Welcome Guide

About

The MCR committee looks after the interests of the graduate community at Magdalene, organises social events, and maintains various facilities and services.

Meet the Committee!

College Life

Find out about what it’s like to live, study and socialise at Magdalene. Our small annual intake helps to foster a family atmosphere and close-knit community.

Magdalene MCR social life

Events

Magdalene MCR hosts a wide range of events throughout the year for its members.

See all upcoming events!

News

In our traditional Christmas Banquet our beautiful hall was made even prettier with ornaments and cute christmas lights 🎄 after the delicious meal we had a party in Benson hall to celebrate the end of term! ✨🕺 Just like the Christmas Banquet concl
Throughout the term we hosted „Parlour Talks“ where researchers come to our college and present their latest work, like here a documentary about Afganistan. It‘s always an exciting opportunity to find out about new fields and to get
Throwback to our Halloween Party in Cripps Court! 🎃 Lots of pumpkins were carved and costumes designed! 🕺🪩
Part 2 of our throwback to Michaelmas: throughout the term we hosted numerous events for you to take a break from studying and researching! 🌻🎊 What was your favourite event? 🙌🏻
Ahead of Lent Term we‘d like to share with you our highlights from the Magdalene MCR in Michaelmas! 📸😄 So let‘s start at the very beginning: Fresher‘s week has been a blast! 💥 We welcomed lots of new faces to Magdalene and intro
A small Garden Party to relax after a busy but exciting May Week 🪴🥂
„A Springman with Friends in The Springman“ It was a great honour to welcome Dame Sarah Springman and give her a tour in the new MCR punt named „The Springman“. Sarah Springman was one of the first female research fellows a
Happy faces in the warm sunshine at today‘s MCR Picnic! 🧺💜 thank you all for coming!
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