Introduction

Trent University is a mid-sized liberal arts and science-oriented institution located along the Otonabee River in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham.

Close to 6,800 undergraduate students and nearly 500 graduate students are enrolled at the Peterborough campus while Trent University Durham serves over 800 full and part-time students at the Thornton Road campus in Oshawa. 

Trent University is among Canada's top universities, according to the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) 2015 list of the worldrsquo;s top 1,000 universities, coming in at number 31 nationally, and number 910 overall worldwide. Trent University also ranked #1 in Ontario in Maclean's University Ranking in the Primarily Undergraduate Category and #2 in Canada.

Academics

Trent has a number of graduate programs including Anthropology M.A. (current focus is in physical anthropology and archaeology), Applications of Modelling in the Natural Social Sciences M.A./M.Sc., Public Texts (English) M.A., History M.A., Theory, Culture and Politics M.A., Environmental and Life Sciences (formerly known as Watershed Ecosystems) Ph. D / M.Sc, and Materials Sciences M.Sc. The Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies offers an interdisciplinary Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies M.A. program.

In addition, the Centre offers, in collaboration with Carleton University, a Canadian Studies Ph.D. program, which was the first of its kind in Canada. The university's Indigenous/Native Studies program was the first in Canada, and only the second in North America. The new Ph.D Program in Cultural Studies is the first in Canada. Trent was also recently approved for Psychology M.A./M.Sc. graduate studies.

Notable alumni

Linwood Barclay, journalist

Paul Boghossian, philosopher

Gary Botting, poet, playwright, lawyer and legal scholar

Tim Cook, historian and author

Lucie Edwards, diplomat, High Commissioner

Mani Haghighi, filmmaker