St Mark's College

St Mark’s is a community whose life comes from its members. St Mark’s College was founded in 1925 as the first university residential College in Adelaide. The College today combines the best of tradition with a modern and progressive outlook and is home to an active and vibrant student community of over 240 students. St Mark’s provides a complete university experience – one that is shaped by the opportunities to engage in the academic, community service, social, cultural, sporting, spiritual and intellectual life of a busy residential learning community.

Active, vibrant and diverse. That’s our community! St Mark’s College provides a supportive and stimulating environment where students pursue their optimum academic achievement. While aiming at the pursuit of excellence in specific fields of study at university, the College also promotes amongst its members a love of learning, and a critical approach to issues.

Colleges cater to the uniqueness of individuals –we recognise that each student living in our community is an individual and our relationship with students is transformational, not transactional. By providing an atmosphere in which students are accepted as mature and self-responsible, St Mark’s aims to make a student’s stay at College a fun, enjoyable, intellectual, and maturing experience. Amongst the heritage buildings and stunning grounds, St Mark’s College offers you a range of first-class facilities to ensure that you have access to everything you need to succeed at university.

We place importance on being a welcoming, diverse and inclusive community that:

• Promotes intellectual enquiry and rigour, a love of learning and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Supports the well-being of each student to enjoy a healthy and happy College experience.
• Fosters respectful relationships and lifelong friendships.
• Expects personal and professional conduct characterised by fairness and integrity.
• Encourages a willingness to serve others and to give back to the community in a spirit of thankfulness.
• Cares about the environment and embraces the principles of ecological sustainability.
• Values the vision of our founders, our Anglican foundation and the best traditions of the College.
• Takes an active, progressive and outward-looking approach to life.