Magdalene College

• College: Magdalene College, University of Cambridge,
• Year founded: 1428,
• Location: central Cambridge beside the River Cam,
• Setting: the Backs.

• Summer courses for up to 30 international students,
• Small-group lessons in a Cambridge college environment.

Magdalene College combines historic buildings with modern residences and facilities for study. The College is home to the Pepys Library, the historic personal library of Samuel Pepys.

Summer courses introduce international students to British education in small groups. Students can improve their English and communication skills while experiencing university life in Cambridge.

The College has a designated medical team and facilities for emergencies. Staff members are trained in basic first aid, and protocols cover contacting medical professionals and parents.

• Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) was a Magdalene College scholar, Secretary to the Admiralty, Member of Parliament, and President of the Royal Society. He left his personal library of 3,000 volumes to the College,
• The books remain arranged by height, as Pepys intended, in bookcases he had crafted in a naval dockyard,
• The Pepys Building was unlikely to have been planned before 1640 and was not fully completed until after 1700. Robert Hooke was consulted in 1677. The building has a neo-classical facade in Ketton stone and is the College’s only non-brick structure,
• The Pepys Library includes the diaries Pepys kept from 1660 to 1669, which provide an account of seventeenth-century life,
• The Pepys Library has acquired a seventeenth-century spinet believed to have belonged to Samuel Pepys. The Haward Spinet is thought to be the earliest surviving English instrument of its type.

Accommodation is offered at the residence. Students of Magdalene College are provided with single rooms with amenities, internet access during their studies. In the residence in common use there are rest rooms, a cinema hall. Laundry services are also available.

Meals are organized in the university canteen. Full board is available, including road lunches on sightseeing days.

Subject list: Academic English, English for the summer, Preparation for the senior classes
Activity list: archery, badminton, basketball, canoe, cricket, Cyclotourism, downhill skiing, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, judo, karate, Korfbol, lacrosse, netball, polo, rowing, rugby, shooting club, Snowboarding, Squash, swimming, table tennis, tennis, track-and-field athletics, Trampoline jumping, Triathlon, volleyball, water polo

In addition to academic part, students are offered an extensive extracurricular programs. The quizzes, discos, film screenings, theme parties are regularly organized. The two-week course also includes 4 excursions. Three of them are for the whole day. During the excursions students of Magdalene College can visit the capital of the country with its famous sights, the University of Oxford, the old Canterbury, as well as the Vorwick Castle, the Anglesey Abbey, numerous British cathedrals, landscape and amusement parks.

Daily routine
Magdalene College offers morning, afternoon lessons. In the evening, an extracurricular program awaits the students.

• Summer language courses at Magdalene College combine study with extracurricular activities and excursions,
• Programs help students improve English, study subjects such as British poetry and art, and prepare for international language exams.

The College has spacious classrooms. There are also self-studying and rest rooms, computer classes (all PCs with Internet access). On the territory of the students playing fields, playgrounds, tennis courts, squash courts are available.

In the indicated price for studying everything is included:

• Transfer to the airport there and back;
• Cost of meals and accommodation;
• Excursions;
• Examinations;
• Insurance.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision