Trinity College

300 Summit St, Hartford, CT 06106-3100 - View Map View Map

School Notes Overview:

    Trinity College is a community united in a quest for excellence in liberal arts education. Our purpose is to foster critical thinking, free the mind of parochialism and prejudice, and prepare students to lead examined lives that are personally satisfying, civically responsible, and socially useful.

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School Overview:

Trinity College
County Hartford County, CT
Title IV Eligible Yes
Carnegie Classification Baccalaureate (Liberal Arts) Colleges I
Institution Level 4 or more years
Institution Control Private, non-profit
Full-Time Undergraduate 2,109 students
Part-Time Undergraduate 178 students
Full-Time Graduate 6 students
Part-Time Graduate 177 students
 
Total Enrollment 2,470 students
Total Dormitory Capacity 1,865 students
% Students Receiving Some Financial Aid 38%
% Students Receiving Federal Grants 9%
Avg. Amount Of Federal Grants Received $3,932
% Students Receiving State/Local Grants 11%
Avg. Amount Of State/Local Grants Received $2,706
% Students Receiving Institutional Grants 31%
Avg. Amount Of Institutional Grants Received $22,284
% Students Receiving Loans 28%
Avg. Amount Of Loan Received $3,982

School Notes:

  • Founded in the spring of 1823 as Washington College (the name was changed in 1845), Trinity was only the second college in Connecticut. A year after opening, Trinity moved to its first campus, which consisted of two Greek Revival-style buildings, one housing a chapel, library, and lecture rooms and the other a dormitory.
  • Trinity’s 100-acre campus is located in the capital city of Hartford, Connecticut. Recent campus buildings includes a state-of-the-art Library and Information Technology Center, the Admissions and Career Services Center, the Jewish cultural center named Zachs Hillel House, and the Summit residential complex. Other projects include the Vernon Street revitalization effort and several athletic facility renovations. Plans are under way to augment the arts facilities, particularly for the performing arts.
  • Trinity offers 37 majors, including engineering and environmental science, as well as interdisciplinary offerings, with more than 970 courses to choose from.
  • Students at Trinity College can choose from a diverse and rigorous liberal arts curriculum that broadens the mind and deepens knowledge. Students are provided with a basic direction through a distribution requirement (one course in each of five categories: the Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Numerical & Symbolic Reasoning, and Social Sciences). At the same time, they have the individual flexibility to experiment, to deepen old interests and develop new ones, and to acquire specialized training in a major field.
  • The college is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. (NEASC).
  • Profile last updated: 00/00/0000.

In the News:

  • Devils Announce First Preseason Game (OurSports Central)
    posted on July 18, 2011 at 08:44:25 pm
    HARTFORD, Conn. - The Albany Devils will begin preseason play on Tuesday, Sept. 27 against the Connecticut Whale on the campus of Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.). Puck drop is slated for 7 p.m. at the Koeppel Community Sports Center.
  • Key jobs filled (Boston Globe)
    posted on July 10, 2011 at 03:19:40 am
    The town has filled two key jobs and announced that an incumbent official will stay on while a search is conducted for his replacement. Town Manager Francis T. Crimmins Jr. said that Milton resident Thomas McGrath will begin work July 18 as the town’s new building commissioner. McGrath is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, holds a master’s degree ...
  • Trinity's Clyde D. McKee Was 'A Reminder Of How Powerful A Teacher Can Be In Your Life' (Hartford Courant)
    posted on June 15, 2011 at 08:17:09 pm
    A professor of political science at Trinity College, Clyde McKee was far from an ivory-tower academic. His specialty was local government, and he enjoyed being in the trenches: teaching town clerks the basics of constitutional law, arranging legislative internships for his students and supporting former students who ran for office.
  • Easton Graduate Honored at Trinity (The Daily Easton)
    posted on June 15, 2011 at 04:11:34 am
    Kevin Collins of Easton graduated from Trinity College in Hartford on May 22 with a bachelor's degree in American Studies. A total of 554 bachelor's and 42 master's degrees were awarded at the 185th...
  • Lincoln Award to Lindenhurst teen (Lake County News-Sun)
    posted on June 11, 2011 at 01:44:00 am
    Lindenhurst resident Sierra Slade will study neuroscience at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., this fall, a task made easier thanks to a full scholarship to the small, but very expensive, school.The 18-year-old graduate of Carmel High School found the small liberal arts school during her college search. “I liked it. It’s small and most people in the Midwest have never heard of it,” but it fit ...

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