Colleges offer welfare and practical support through a Postgraduate Tutor. Your Tutor helps you settle in and can help with academic and pastoral matters. At Churchill College, we also have a College Nurse, and a Wellbeing Co-ordinator on-site and available should you need them. If you need advice on financial assistance, the Postgraduate Office is also here to help you.

Colleges also provide accommodation and catering, subsidised for students. Churchill College has the largest dining room in Cambridge, and offers formal and informal meals as part of our community. Eating together is a great way to meet people and share ideas, and a key part of the collegiate system. We also have a cafe, called the Buttery, providing sandwiches, sushi, pizza and other snacks.

We have three libraries on site, the Bevin library for Sciences, the Bracken Library for Arts and Humanities, plus the Roskill Library in the Churchill Archives Centre for political and social history. The Churchill Archives Centre is a rich source of items documenting British domestic politics and international relations, advanced scientific knowledge, and society, economics and culture of the 20th century.

As a campus-based site, Churchill College is fortunate to be able to bring all its facilities into one place.

• Sport and fitness: sports fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, squash courts, dance studios, and gym (free for student use).
• Arts: Music Centre featuring recording studio and recital room, art studio, theatre
• Students also organise visiting yoga classes, film screenings, open mic nights, and a range of other activities enabled by the College’s facilities.
• MCR: a dedicated space for postgraduates, including the Vicious Penguin, the MCR-run bar.

There are around 475 undergraduate students and 350 postgraduate students at Churchill College, which provides a cross-disciplinary community, and an active social and academic event schedule. The postgraduate student body is represented by the Churchill College MCR (Middle Common Room), who advocate for postgraduates as well as running a varied programme of events, from punting trips to academic conferences.

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are in many respects the axis of the college’s academic community, and more than half of our students join the college in STEM subjects.

Over time, many of the University’s key STEM departments have located themselves adjacent to the college: the University’s West Cambridge Science and Technology Campus, the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, the Cavendish Laboratory, the Institute of Astronomy, and many others are very near the college.

While STEM students have access to some of the finest equipment and laboratories available in their departments, the Bill Brown Creative Workshop and the Engineering Shed in college capture the spirit of imagination, curiosity and creativity characteristic of out STEM students and seniors.

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences are essential to the depth and complexity of the college’s academic community, and we reserve about a third of our postgraduate places for students in HASS subjects.

The college is especially well placed for the libraries and resources of the University’s Sidgwick Site, a campus of departments in the Schools of Arts and Humanities and of Humanities and Social Sciences, which is under a mile away, and the University Library, one of the six “legal deposit” libraries in the UK entitled to a copy of all published material, with more than 8 million books and access to a vast resource of digital materials, is even nearer than that.

The College’s own on-site library, is made up of three constituents: the Bracken Library for Science and Social Science collections, the Bevin Library for Arts and Humanities collections, and the Roskill Library for political, military and scientific history.

The College is also home to the Churchill Archives Centre, a unique collection of the papers of Winston Churchill and the personal papers of many of the most influential figures in modern British politics, society and science.

Medical, Psychological and Veterinary Studies normally account for around a quarter of the college’s postgraduate students, including about ten students a year who join the postgraduate community for their clinical studies after three years pre-clinical studies as an undergraduate.

Research students in Medical and Psychological Studies work across the University’s world-leading laboratories and units, including the Sanger Institute, the Medical Research Council centres, the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, and others. Many of these centres are based on the West Cambridge Site, which is adjacent to the college site, and the college has postgraduate accommodation available near the Addenbrookes Biomedical Campus.

Churchill provides the best of both worlds. Situated beside a number of major academic departments and research centres, we are in easy reach of the centre city yet benefit from a peaceful environment.

The College is on the “Uni” bus route providing a regular, subsidised and sustainable (fully electric) bus service to almost every part of the University from the end of the road.

Churchill College has a large, unified campus with trees, gardens and sports fields. The site includes the original purpose-built centre of the College where central facilities are located such as libraries, seminar rooms and a lecture theatre. We also have a café-bar and a dining hall within the heart of the College.

Our lively College boat club shares a modern boathouse with two other colleges, and we are the nearest college to the University Sports Centre – though we have sports fields, squash courts and a gym, as well as a dance studio and a music centre with a recording studio and recital spaces on our own site.

Most of our dedicated postgraduate accommodation is located on our main site. We have various types of rooms and flats including ensuites, studios, maisonettes, and rooms in houses with shared facilities.

The College has some of the best provision for students with children and partners in the University, with 45 flats and maisonettes with a children’s play area.

We have 5 off-site houses; 4 in the nearby area, and 1 near the Addenbrookes Cambridge Biomedical Campus which can be especially convenient for those studying or working there. While you are not required to live on-site, the College may have some excellent options when looking for postgraduate accommodation at Cambridge University.

We aim to offer accommodation to all first-year students who require it, and normally offer a room to incoming students who request accommodation and meet the conditions of their offer by 1^st September – though this depends on availability and getting your preferred room cannot always be guaranteed.

Please see our Postgraduate Accommodation page for a more detailed information about they types of postgraduate accommodation available at Churchill.

The Middle Common Room (MCR) is a student body that exists to support the graduate student community of Churchill College. MCR organise academic and recreational events throughout the year to encourage bonding between students and to enrich their lives.

The MCR committee is elected annually and is made up of 20 officers, each with specific roles. The Committee plans Freshers’ Week, Guest Nights, the Christmas Party, and other social events. It organises academic seminars and the Conference on Everything; runs the MCR Bar, and represents the views of the MCR to College through various sub-committees.

The Committee meets once a fortnight during term. Open meetings are held at least once a term and all Churchill College postgraduates are welcome to attend.

Churchill College’s student body organise and run over 20 different clubs and societies. Whether you are interested in guest talks, sports or board games, there will be something to appeal to you.

In addition, Churchill College’s grounds often host other University clubs and societies, such as the Space Flight society and Drone club, due to the suitability of our grounds for activities.

Special activities for postgraduates with families also run across the year.