EXCEPTIONAL FEATURES AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS

We understand that you and your students investigate hundreds of schools—and sometimes their characteristics begin to blend, making it hard to differentiate between institutions.

Below you'll find some of the features that distinguish Trinity, as well as a listing of what's new on campus:

Distinguish Trinity

• Trinity has been ranked the # 1 university in the West (offering Masters degrees) for 13 consecutive years by US News and World Report.
• Offering the best of both worlds, Trinity's picturesque 117-acre campus is located in a quiet residential neighborhood, yet it's only 5 miles from the exhilaration of downtown San Antonio. Students are provided with an intimate, supportive environment on campus, and have all the urban benefits they could want available to them off campus.
• 99% of Trinity's 228 full-time faculty members hold the terminal degree in their field, and all of them teach their own classes. With a better than 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio and small class sizes students are insured plenty of personal attention from professors. In fact, we ranked #3 in the nation for individual attention from faculty by Kaplan/Newsweek College Catalog.
• Trinity's $815 million endowment allows the University to offer resources usually only found at much larger schools. These include cutting edge science facilities and instrumentation; one of the nation's top-ten undergraduate research libraries; an outstanding fine arts center; and a high-tech communications center with television studios, a radio station, and multimedia labs.
• Students live in modern, spacious, suite-style residence halls for their first three years, creating a lively and close-knit campus community that earned Trinity a top-20 ranking for quality of student life in The Best 357 Colleges.
• Trinity's tuition is thousands of dollars less than most similar institutions, and we also offer both merit and need-based assistance, with over 80% of our students receiving some form of financial aid. Fiske Guide rates Trinity a "Best Buy," Kiplinger's Personal Finance includes us in their "Top 30 Value Among Private Colleges," and U.S News&World Report consistently rates us the "#1 Best Value" among western universities.
• Trinity is one of only a few liberal arts and sciences universities that also offers professional programs in engineering, computer science, education, communication, and business. For a complete listing of majors and minors, click here.
• Trinity faculty members continually receive a myriad of outside grants that allow them and their students to purchase equipment, pursue a wide range of research, and travel to academic conferences, without incurring University expenses that would raise the cost of tuition.
• The entire campus supports wireless technology and is completely connected through T3 internet connections.

New Developments at Trinity

• A $21 million redesign of Northrup Hall was completed last fall. This academic and administration building was dramatically modified, and now acts as the University's main entrance as well as the center of campus.
• In order to keep abreast of the latest developments, discoveries, and trends in the sciences, Trinity is transforming our undergraduate science program to emphasize a cutting edge interdisciplinary approach. This effort was given a boost when the University was recently awarded a half-million dollar, five year grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, and a $1 million, four year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
  • The Keck grant will establish the Keck Center for Macromolecular Studies, which will house new equipment to increase the collaborative research capabilities of the departments of Biology and Chemistry, and will serve as a focus of faculty research collaboration, student interdisciplinary research participation, and interdisciplinary curricular development throughout the sciences.
  • The Hughes grant will, among other things, facilitate a revision of the introductory curricula in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics, so that students can work together in interdisciplinary study and research groups.
• A $20 million renovation of the The Ruth Taylor Art and Music Center was just completed. The facility gained about 20,000 feet of space for a total of 70,000 gross square feet. The construction added soundproof classrooms and practice rooms for music; studios for photography, printmaking, and digital imaging; and an exhibition gallery for student and faculty art to the existing extensive rehearsal facilities, theaters, and classrooms.
• Scott L. Schwartz, a Trinity University student majoring in computer science and mathematics, received a Goldwater Scholarship for the 2004–05 academic year. Sixteen Trinity students have received these prestigious awards over the past ten years, and recently students have won Rhodes, Mellon, Truman, National Science Foundation, Minority Leaders Fellowships, Fulbright, and other scholarships and fellowships for graduate study.
• Trinity boasts a top four ranking in Division III Athletics, and in 2003 we became the only university, in any division, to have four teams make it to the NCAA Final Four (football, men's soccer, women's soccer, volleyball).
• Trinity University Press was relaunched, after being inactive for 13 years, publishing its first list of books in fall 2004. Trinity University Press is dedicated to publishing intellectually rich books that make a lasting contribution to culture, scholarship, and knowledge, and to supporting Trinity University's mission to educate for "the personal, lifelong quest for understanding of oneself and one's place in the world."