St Edmund's College

St Edmund's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. Founded in 1896, it is the second-oldest of the four Cambridge colleges oriented to mature students, which only accept students reading for either master's or doctorate degrees, or undergraduate degrees if they are a 'mature student', defined as aged 21 or older.

Named after St Edmund of Abingdon, who was the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1234 to 1240, the college has traditionally Roman Catholic roots. Its founders were Henry Fitzalan Howard, the 15th Duke of Norfolk, then the most prominent Roman Catholic in England, and Baron Anatole von Hügel, the first Catholic to take a Cambridge degree since the Glorious Revolution of 1688.