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Education at Trinity broadens your horizons and deepens your understanding

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Students benefit from small class sizes

Are you up for a challenge?

Are you eager to broaden your horizons?

Are you seeking a relevant education?

If your answer is yes, then Trinity University may be for you.

Today's students live their lives in an increasingly diverse, interconnected, ever-shrinking world where borders and lines of division mean less and less, and collaboration, tolerance, and intercultural communication mean more and more. It is for this environment that Trinity has developed a rigorous yet flexible Common Curriculum enhanced with a wide range of interdisciplinary programs and special opportunities, all of which are designed to provide real world experiences, increase international exposure and understanding, and instill the values required for global citizenship and making a difference. Our superb faculty members are active scholars, who encourage undergraduate research and offer personalized academic advising and support. Our facilities and IT resources rival those of the nation's finest institutions. Trinity's Coates Library, one of the largest undergraduate libraries in the country, received the 2007 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. In short, Trinity offers the most relevant education option for talented students today and prepares its students to launch successful, purposeful, and meaningful lives.

Check out our facts.

  • 39 majors, 52 minors
  • Flexible Common Curriculum emphasizing critical writing, thinking, problem solving
  • Opportunities for self-designed interdisciplinary majors
  • Average class size: 21
  • Profs with PhDs: 97%
  • No teaching assistants
  • Generous support for undergraduate research, internships, and study abroad
  • Student: faculty ratio of 10:1 that ensures personal attention and support
  • Special advising for pre-law and health professions, including pre-med
  • Select graduate programs, two of which can be completed as five-year combined bachelor's and master's programs.

A Trinity education   broadens your horizons and deepens your understanding

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