ABOUT THE COLLEGE
- Education means more than just being taught. It involves being part of a learning community. The University is a very large learning community and College is a small one. They represent two mutually reinforcing types of education.
- One of the most important decisions for students to make before they begin university studies is where to live. At the University of Sydney over one thousand students actually live on campus in residential colleges, a step away from lectures and also from the busy, vivid suburbs of Newtown and Glebe.
- There are 197 men living at St Paul's from all faculties within the University. Most are studying at undergraduate level, but they include postgraduate students and other senior scholars.
- At the core of the College experience are the friendships which form between young people of ability as they pursue varied university studies. So is the exhilarating process of learning together. At St Paul's that happens at all levels and across all levels. We use the principle, "Education of the young by the young".
- Entry to College is open to men who have gained admission to a course at the University of Sydney. Referees will be required as well as a curriculum vitae which demonstrates academic ability and a willingness to participate in extra-curricula activities.
College Aims
- To open the way to the best that the University has to offer.
- To encourage intellectual endeavour and promote the highest academic goals.
- To sustain itself as a community which is intelligent, amicable, amiable, inclusive and dynamic.
- To be a place of civilised life.
- To maintain an annual calendar which expresses the spectrum of human endeavour.
- To foster the autonomies and responsibilities of its Students' Club as an expression of the independence and democratic maturity of all College members.
- To express the historic Christian tradition of faith and worship in a critical and informed Anglican manner, appropriate to a University setting, and to recognise and value the best in all faiths.
- To contribute to the greatness of the nation and to international citizenship.
Read John Henry Newman's idea of a good college.