Campus Life

An active life both inside and outside the classroom at Trinity College Foundation Studies (TCFS) provides an ideal preparation for prospective undergraduates.

Trinity encourages students to build on their academic and social strengths while broadening their experiences through meeting new people and engaging in a range of sporting, social and cultural activities. Students and staff at TCFS believe that campus life should be intellectually stimulating, exciting, and fun. And at TCFS students have the opportunity to explore their interests and personalities. They have the freedom to express themselves.

Campus life is enriched through various music and drama performances, in friendly rivalries at soccer, basketball and other sports, and through the fragrant efforts of the Cooking Club. But the campus can, however, sometimes seem a daunting or unfamiliar place, especially for international students away from home for the first time or removed from their usual support networks. TCFS therefore provides support through welfare, counselling and chaplaincy staff who can address any concerns and help students meet specific challenges.

Because of Trinity College’s place within the University of Melbourne, TCFS students share many facilities with the university: from cafeterias to libraries, and from the bookshop to sports facilities. TCFS students immerse themselves in the academic and cultural life of the wider university – as well as in the university’s swimming pool!

The broad range of extra-curricular activities, from sporting clubs to cultural performances and the opportunities for religious reflection, provides TCFS with an atmosphere in which students are both stimulated and supported.