Austin College, University of New England (Australia)
| Austin College | |||||||||||
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| University of New England | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°29′51″S 151°38′28″E / 30.4975°S 151.6410°E | ||||||||||
| Motto | Through Living We Learn | ||||||||||
| Established | 1972 | ||||||||||
| Named for | Dr R. B. Austin | ||||||||||
| Head | Ms Andrea Gledhill, BFA GDipEd | ||||||||||
| Residents | 288 undergraduates annually (rooms) | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
Austin College is a college at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. It is the second youngest of the established colleges, opening as an all girls college in 1972 . It proceeded to change to a co-ed tertiary residential college, which it remains to this day.
It has the capacity to house 288 students at any one time during the year. It caters for both internal and external students and serves as residency for many travelling university and school sporting teams.
Austin has a range of facilities including a common room and kitchenette on every floor, a licensed bar, music room, exercise room, a large common room, bike shed, laundries and a large dining hall. All rooms are centrally heated and have ethernet, NBN, phone and TV aerial connections.