Trinity College

Address:: Trinity College (map)
Trinity Street
Cambridge CB2 1TQ
Telephone:: +44 1223 338400
Fax:: +44 1223 338564
Email:: grad.tutor@trin.cam.ac.uk
Website:: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/
MCR:: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/basoc/
See also:: Institution admissions pages, Graduate Studies Prospectus Entry.

Trinity's graduate community is large and diverse: in addition to those who come up through the college and stay on to do research, each year brings a varied mix of fresh graduates from outside. Whether you come from Australia, India, or even Oxford, there are likely to be others with backgrounds and interests similar to yours.

Graduate social life in Trinity centres around the weekly dinners organised by the BA Society. These dinners have three or four courses, and are preceded by sherry served in the Old Combination Room and followed by coffee, port, and mints in the Old Kitchens. They are subsidised by the college, and are enormously popular. Many graduates bring along friends from other colleges as guests.

In addition to these dinners the BA Society organises many other functions, including frequent exchange dinners with other colleges, a garden party in the summer, film evenings, bops, wine tastings and speakers evenings.

Sporting activities are also well provided for. Trinity Old Field houses tennis, squash, and badminton courts as well as a gym. There are graduate teams for volleyball, football, and cricket, as well as men's and ladies' rowing teams.

Facilities for graduates in the college are on the whole excellent. The BA Rooms are furnished with a kitchen, and provided with newspapers, periodicals, satellite television, video/DVD, and board games. There is a computer loan scheme to help graduates who are writing up theses.

Accommodation is among the most plentiful of any college in Cambridge: all new graduates are provided rooms in college in their first year, but move out into college hostels and flats in subsequent years. Rents are very reasonable. Only if you stay on longer than is good for you is accommodation likely not to be forthcoming. College hostels have large, well equiped kitchens and if you are used to institutional food, the meals in the college dining hall are a convenient alternative. Access for disabled people is, not surprisingly, given the antiquity of some of the buildings, poor.

On balance, Trinity is a great place to be.