Austin College UNE

Austin College is a residential college at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. It was founded in 1972 and is the youngest of the seven residential colleges at the University. From the college’s inception, it was set up as an all women's college but quickly changed to co-residential as it exists today.

From its inception, the College has aimed to be an integrated community, with all its members - students, resident fellows, and Master, feeling at ease with each other. Soon after it opened, Austin decided to discard the formal Senior/Junior Common Room structure still found in some other colleges at the University. This structure had been inherited from the older Universities of England and many, who were associated with the early days of Austin (especially its first Master, Dr. Brian Seppelt) believed it would be a hindrance to the development of the College.

The College was named to honour the service to the University of Dr. R. B. Austin who was the Government Medical Officer in Armidale at the time when the university was being developed and initially only a College of the University of Sydney.

The College, which is the, currently has accommodation for 288 residents and has provided accommodation for more than three thousand students in it life time.

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