Trent University

Canada

Overview

Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, which was founded in 1963 and welcomed its first students a year later. It has been set up as a collegiate university system with its colleges - Champlain, Lady Eaton, Catharine Parr Traill, Otonabee, and Peter Gzowski - each having their own residence halls and student governments.

It has around 17,000 students across its campuses and colleges. Trent University has been ranked as Ontario’s number 1 undergraduate university for 12 years in a row in Maclean’s University Rankings. It has also been ranked as number 1 in Ontario and number 2 in the whole of Canada for overall reputation and second in the country for most innovative university.

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Subjects

PaleoanthropologyPsychologyData Sciences and Big DataAccountingPhysicsMathematicsGeologySoftware DesignComputer SciencesEducation

Highlights

As well as placing in the top 6.6% of universities in the world, Trent University also enjoys high levels of student satisfaction. 95% of students said they were happy to have chosen the university while 94% were satisfied with the overall quality of their education received here.

Trent University has been working hard to upgrade and improve its facilities in recent years. This has included the transformation of the Bata Library to add an entrepreneurship and social innovation centre and educational design research studio. There’s also a new Student Centre and new residence and academic building at the Durham Greater Toronto Area campus.

Trent University has ranked as the second best university in Canada for student services in Maclean’s University Rankings.

Employability

92% of Trent University graduates are employed within 2 years after graduation. Graduates of the Nursing and Mathematics reported a 100% graduate employment rate two years after graduation. Physical Science graduates reported a 100% graduate employment rate six months after graduation. Agriculture and Bio Science students from Trent University have a 91% graduate employment rate two years after graduation; from the Education program it’s 96%. Humanities graduates recorded an employment rate of 97% after six months, higher than the province average.

Ranking

501-600th

by THE

32nd

by Macleans