Fast Facts

Beginnings

Trinity College was founded in 1872.
It was affiliated as a college 'of and within the University of Melbourne' in 1876.

The Trinity College Theological School was founded in 1877.

Trinity was the first university college in Australia to admit women as non-resident students (1883) and to provide a residential college facility for women (Trinity Women's Hostel, 1886, now Janet Clarke Hall).

Trinity College Foundation Studies was established in 1989 to prepare able students from around the world for entry to degree courses of the University of Melbourne.

Summer Schools have been held at Trinity College since 2001.

Values

Trinity aims to offer 'large and liberal education' to all its students, emphasising high academic standards, personal breadth, balance, integrity, leadership, service, and international awareness.

Students

 In 2007, Trinity College had a total of 1,737 students:

• 319 University of Melbourne students resident in the College, and 101 non-resident University students
  

• 415 Theology students, including candidates for ordination and lay students studying on campus, online, or in parishes around Australia
  

• 728 students from around the world in Trinity College Foundation Studies
  

• 174 students who attended Summer Schools or other short courses.

The vast majority of students are between 18 and 21 years of age.

As in the University of Melbourne as a whole, approximately 55% of Trinity students are women, and 45% are men.

Taken altogether, Trinity students come from all States and mainland territories in Australia, and over 20 different countries at any one time.

Precincts

As well as teaching on the main College campus on Royal Parade, the College leases several buildings adjacent to the University in Parkville and Carlton primarily for the teaching of Trinity College Foundation Studies.

The Trinity buildings cluster in two precincts:

• a Royal Parade Precinct, centred on the main College campus with other buildings across Royal Parade

• a Swanston Street precinct, centred on 715 Swanston Street and around the corner in Lincoln Square North
  

Academics

The College employs around 90 academic staff including:

• resident and non-resident tutors for our university students
  

• Theological lecturers

• lecturers in Trinity College Foundation Studies
  

Subjects

The College offers tuition in every University faculty discipline: subjects in Arts; Economics and Commerce; Education; Engineering; Land and Food Resources; Law; Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences; Music; Science; and Veterinary Science.

Trinity also teaches a variety of aspects of Theology. 

Subjects taught in Trinity College Foundation Studies are:

•  Core subjects: History of Ideas, English Literature, Drama, and English for Academic Purposes

• Optional subjects: Maths 1A, Maths 1B, Maths 2, Computing and Information Management, Physics, Media and Communications, Chemistry, Accounting, Economics, Environment and Development, Biology, Psychology, Music History, Music Practical.

Services

About a further 80 Trinity staff provide services for the whole College in

• Information Technology

• Library

• Art Collection and Archives
  

• Chaplaincy

• Human Resources
  

• Finance and Administration, including accounting, property and operations

• Music, including the Choir of Trinity College

• Alumni relations, Advancement Office, and the Trinity College Foundation

• Communications

• Conferences and Hospitality.

Strengths

Trinity places much emphasis on

• music - including an internationally acclaimed Choir, and an annual College Musical production

• drama - with an annual College Play, and a compulsory subject in Trinity College Foundation Studies

• sport

• visual arts

• community service

The College encourages all Trinity students, past and present, to recognise that they have benefited from the generosity of past generations, and should, when they are able, do what they can to help generations of Trinity students who follow them.