For over 60 years, Trent University has earned a reputation as an exceptional teaching and research university.
Contributing to our collective knowledge for over half a century, Trent’s expert faculty, community-based approach, and cutting-edge facilities have earned the University a ranking among the world’s best.
Personal. Purposeful. Transformative.
Trent University attracts excellent students from across the country and around the world, where undergraduate and graduate students connect and collaborate with faculty, staff and their peers through diverse communities that span residential colleges, classrooms, disciplines, hands-on research, co-curricular and community-based activities.
Trent’s unique approach to personal development through supportive, collaborative community engagement is in demand more than ever. Students lead the way by co-creating experiences rooted in dialogue, diverse perspectives and collaboration. Consistently recognised nationally for leadership in teaching, research and student satisfaction, Trent’s students, alumni, faculty and staff are engaged global citizens who are catalysts in developing sustainable solutions to complex issues.
Two diverse campus locations
Trent’s Symons Campus, located in Peterborough, Ontario, offers an impressive range of academically rigorous programs across the arts and sciences as well as professional programs, including business, co-op opportunities, and pathways to law and medicine where academic excellence combined with state-of-the-art facilities, opportunities to get involved and robust career experiences in a personal, close-knit community to create a truly transformative student experience.
Located in Oshawa, Ontario, Trent Durham GTA has one of the best student-to-faculty ratios of any university in Ontario. Students can learn from expert faculty and leading researchers using the latest in theory and practice in unique programs such as Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Communications, Child & Youth Studies, Journalism & Creative Writing and Policing & Community Wellbeing and renowned programs such as Business Administration, Law, Psychology, Social Work, English, Sociology and Philosophy.
An extraordinary force for change
Home to world-renowned research facilities and labs – including 18 Research Institutes, Centers, and Groups – Trent University research is vibrant, responsive, and creative. The research ecosystem at Trent University incorporates the University’s signature focus on healthy and sustainable environments and communities, priority areas of research intensification, and a diverse range of research methods. Trent’s research priorities are grounded in a commitment to this interconnected research ecosystem.
Trent University’s research ecosystem
Health and Sustainable Environments and Communities
- The Environment
- Water
- Climate
- Sustainability
- Wildlife
- Ecosystems
- Ageing and Society
- DNA and Forensics
- Indigenous Scholarship
- Canadian Studies and the North
- Health and Wellbeing
Areas of Growing Research Intensification
- Sustainable Agriculture
- The Study of Teaching & Learning
- Big Data & Data Analytics
- Materials Science
- Human Rights, Social Justice & Labour
- Philosophical & Political Thought
- Green, Clean Solutions & Techniques
- Digital Humanities, Culture, & Artistic Endeavours
Cleantech Commons at Trent University
Trent University is home to Cleantech Commons, a new 85-acre hub for collaborative green economy research, innovation, commercialisation, and entrepreneurship. With a focus on attracting clean technology investment, Cleantech Commons will provide experiential learning and jobs for students and support scalable growth companies, startups, and university spinout ventures.
The Trent Enterprise Centre at Cleantech Commons is designed to provide programming and value-added services, along with shared laboratory, piloting, and demonstration facilities to help translate research outcomes into clean, low-carbon, and sustainable solutions for climate, energy, and environmental challenges.
Expertise, collaboration, and economic development
Trent University is a key partner in the Environmental and Related Technologies Hub (EaRTH) District, a consortium of post-secondary institutions that includes Trent University, Centennial College, Fleming College, Ontario Tech University, and the University of Toronto Scarborough, which have been working collaboratively to advance research on topics such as the development of on-campus food assets, clean energy alternatives, waste reduction, and recycling pollutants. By combining resources, including research expertise and facilities, the EaRTH District is working to develop the region’s clean, green, sustainable technology sectors.
