Former names
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All Saints College Trinity College Leeds Trinity & All Saints |
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Type | Public |
Established | 1966 1980 – merger 2012 – university status |
Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
Chancellor | Deborah McAndrew |
Vice-Chancellor | Margaret House |
Students | 3,625 (2016/17) |
Undergraduates | 2,855 (2016/17) |
Postgraduates | 770 (2016/17) |
Location |
Horsforth, West Yorkshire, England 53°50′55″N 1°38′53″W / 53.84855°N 1.64809°WCoordinates: 53°50′55″N 1°38′53″W / 53.84855°N 1.64809°W |
Campus | Suburban |
Affiliations |
Cathedrals Group ACCU |
Website | www.leedstrinity.ac.uk |
Global rankings
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National rankings
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Complete (2019, national) |
101 | |
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The Guardian (2018, national) |
111 | |
Times/Sunday Times (2018, national) |
67= | |
British Government assessment
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Teaching Excellence Framework | Silver |
Leeds Trinity University is a public university in the town of Horsforth, West Yorkshire, England, which offers foundation and undergraduate degrees, as well as postgraduate qualifications. Previously known as Leeds Trinity & All Saints, the institution became a university college in 2009 after gaining the right to award its own degrees, and was granted full university status in December 2012.
Leeds Trinity is ranked in the top 15% of UK institutions for teaching quality (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2016), and in the top 10 in the UK for student satisfaction with feedback and assessment (The Guardian University Guide 2017). Overall satisfaction from students is at 81% (National Student Survey 2016), with 100% satisfaction in some courses such as Business and Management, English and Media. 95% of the University's graduates working or studying 6 months after graduating. (HESA Destination of Leavers Survey 2015)
Leeds Trinity opened in 1966 as two Roman Catholic teacher training colleges for Yorkshire - Trinity College for women and All Saints College for men. The two colleges merged in 1980 to form Trinity and All Saints College.
During the 1970s new academic divisions were introduced including humanities, languages, Mathematics and Sciences and Social and Environmental Sciences, enabling students to specialise in another subject in addition to their teacher training. The Postgraduate Certificate in Education was introduced for prospective secondary school teachers.
After the college merger in 1980, the degrees became more modular in design enabling students to undertake wide-ranging professional studies and explore different occupational routes, with the BEd being phased out by the end of the decade, and postgraduate teacher training offered at primary and secondary level.
During the 1990s postgraduate provision was extended beyond Education to Journalism, Victorian Studies and research degree opportunities and a number of single honours academic programmes were launched.
In 1991 Leeds Trinity was designated a College of the University of Leeds, and established a formal accreditation agreement with the university in 2001. In 2009 Leeds Trinity gained taught degree awarding powers from the Privy Council, and became a university college with the right to award its own degrees.