Trinity College (CT)

Estimated college costs for 2014-15 are as follows:
Tuition: $46,796
Room and Board: $12,700
Fees: $2,260

Through the generosity of alumni and friends, the College has an endowment sufficient to give our students an education that's worth considerably more than the actual tuition charged. If you decide that Trinity is the right college for you, we are determined not to let money stand in your way. We are committed to making a Trinity education accessible to promising students who are unable to meet the full educational costs. More than 40 percent of our students receive need-based financial aid from Trinity, federal, or state funds. If you have any questions about financial aid at Trinity during any point in your college search, you should not hesitate to contact the Financial Aid Office at (860) 297-2046 or financial-aid@trincoll.edu.

Trinity is situated on a beautiful, 100-acre campus in Hartford, midway between Boston and New York. Hartford has a rich history that offers many opportunities for urban engagement. Mark Twain lived here, as did Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dentist Horace Wells discovered anesthesia here. It is the home of the oldest continuously published newspaper in America and the oldest public art museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum. Trinity effectively uses the city as a classroom, with access to assets and resources that is matched by few liberal arts colleges of our size.

Anyone who visits the College sees the beauty of the campus, with our hilltop location, mix of historic and contemporary buildings, and abundant trees and lawns. Trinity is one of the earliest examples of "Collegiate Gothic;" many of the original buildings are modeled after the architecture of Oxford and Cambridge and symbolize Trinity's roots in the classical liberal arts. A major campus and community revitalization initiative created the state-of-the-art Raether Library and Information Technology Center on campus and the neighboring innovative Learning Corridor of magnet schools and academic resources, which now also includes the Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy. Also, in 2006, the award-winning Koeppel Community Sports Center opened its doors as a multiuse athletic facility on the southern edge of campus.

As a Trinity student, you have numerous opportunities to engage in internships, research with faculty, community learning projects, and volunteer work. Many courses-from art history to political science and from economics to neuroscience-incorporate aspects of city life. And whatever your tastes, there are cultural and entertainment events throughout the city and a shuttle service provided by the College.

The campus is fully wired, with every student room connected to the campus network and the Internet. The newly expanded Raether Library and Information Technology Center combines the resources of one of the leading small-college library facilities in the nation with an array of electronic resources, including digital media labs and video-conferencing capabilities. The library houses more than 1.2 million books, bound collections, and electronic books, as well as approximately 90,000 periodical titles. It also houses the Watkinson Library rare-book collections.

The science labs offer our undergraduates an opportunity to work hands-on with sophisticated equipment, including a research nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, a scanning electron microscope, incubators, and climatically controlled growth chambers.

Focal points for the visual arts are the Widener Gallery in the Austin Arts Center and the Broad Street Gallery. In addition to a proscenium theater and a more intimate black box performance space, each art medium has its own studio.

The Ferris Athletic Center houses a fully equipped fitness center, an Olympic-size pool, premier international-size squash courts, crew tanks, an indoor track, a field house, and basketball and tennis courts. Outdoor features include an all-weather track, soccer fields, softball and baseball diamonds, the Paul D. Assaiante Tennis Center, an artificial turf field hockey field, and an artificial turf playing surface for football and lacrosse. In addition, the Koeppel Community Sports Center serves as home ice for Trinity men??s and women's ice hockey teams and a place for community academic and athletic mentoring programs.

Trinity students have a wide variety of opportunities to take advantage of the College's special relationship with the city of Hartford. The Community Learning Initiative comprises courses that weave direct contact with local people and institutions into the learning process. Such urban engagement builds on Trinity's liberal arts foundation, and for some students, has led to independent studies or collaborative research papers published in scholarly journals.

Trinity offers more than 200 internship opportunities that represent excellent preparation for life after college. Students can explore career interests in a wide variety of fields, including law, banking, journalism, communications, health care, engineering, computer science, government, and nonprofit organizations. The College's Legislative Internship Program offers students the opportunity to work for a member of the Connecticut General Assembly. Trinity challenges its students to make a difference in the real world-starting with their Hartford community. Students can choose from a wide range of community service activities, from child-mentoring programs to the Boys and Girls Club at Trinity to Habitat for Humanity.

Trinity's study-abroad programs provide unforgettable learning experiences that broaden perspectives and deepen understanding. Among the rich menu of study-abroad choices are Trinity's own campus in Rome and our seven additional international program sites, as well as more than 90 approved international and domestic programs. Equally valuable are many study-away programs in the United States, including the Trinity/La Mama Performing Arts Semester in New York City, research and internships in Washington D.C., and theater courses at the O'Neill National Theater Institute. Students can also take advantage of the Twelve-College Exchange Program.

Trinity also created the Center for Urban and Global Studies to integrate the College's well-established tradition of urban engagement with our strong global programs. The center, the first of its kind at a liberal arts college in the United States, takes advantage of Trinity's location and strengthens the long-standing mutually beneficial relationship between the College and Hartford. Playing off Trinity's global reach, the center is expanding new learning and research opportunities in world cities.