Company description
A residential college of The University of Melbourne, offering full accommodation to students and academics of Melbourne City universities.Planning for the college’s establishment began in 1917, when a group of women and men associated with the University of Melbourne organised a Provisional Committee to found a residential college for women, equal in status to the then existing four men’s colleges of the University. In 1933, after a 16 year period of struggle and endeavour, the Provisional Committee was granted by Act of Parliament five and a quarter acres on which to establish a college for women attending the University of Melbourne. The foundation stone of University Women’s College was laid in 1936 by Lady Huntingfield, wife of the then Governor of Victoria.
