📸 At a Glance
🌍 Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
🎓 Russell Group ❌
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Silver award
💰 Scholarships Available ❌
🏅Ranking: 76 (Complete University Guide 2026)
🔎 Overview
Leeds Trinity University is a small public university in Horsforth, Leeds, founded in 1966 as two Roman Catholic teacher training colleges, which merged in 1980 before gaining full university status in 2012. With campuses in Horsforth and Leeds city centre, it’s known for its close-knit, supportive community, high employability rates, and strengths in teacher training, journalism, media, and sports science.
📊 Ethnicity Breakdown
- Black: 9%
- Mixed race: 4%
- White: 46%
- Asian: 30%
- Other: 9%
- Not known: 2%
💷 Scholarships & Funding
⚠️ This university does not currently offer scholarships specifically for Black students. We recommend exploring their widening participation and general scholarships, as you may qualify based on your personal circumstances and academic achievement.
🔔 No Africa-specific scholarships currently identified for 2026/27 entry. African students may also wish to explore the university’s general international scholarships.
👨🏾🎓👩🏿🎓 Student Life & Support
- African-Caribbean Society (ACS)
*The university also points students to its full clubs and societies directory under cultural/national societies, which may include additional or more up-to-date groups not listed here.
📣 Things Uni To Know
🔗 Leeds Trinity University becomes first in Yorkshire to be awarded the Silver Race Equality Charter – This is a huge achievement for the university as they become the first university in Yorkshire to achieve the Silver Race Equality Charter (REC) award from Advance HE, recognising its sustained commitment to race equality across all areas of university life.
A standout achievement is the reduction in the degree awarding gap between white and global majority students, from 13.1% in 2022 to just 2.3% in 2025, well below the sector average of 11.4%. This was driven by inclusive mentoring, targeted academic support, anti-racist staff and student training, and a Curriculum for Social Justice framework now embedded across all programmes.
Staff diversity has also improved, rising from 7.1% in 2020 to 13.3% in 2025, supported by race literacy programmes and data-driven recruitment reforms. The university’s Silver Action Plan runs until 2030.
🔗 Coaching for the Global Majority – In 2025, mental health was the leading reason students left higher education, with global majority students, care-experienced students, and those from low-income backgrounds among the most affected.
Leeds Trinity was one of only two universities to receive TASO funding for Coaching the Gap, a programme offering 23 at-risk students six one-to-one coaching sessions to help them manage personal challenges affecting their studies. Students reported improvements in wellbeing, confidence, time management and academic engagement, with the coaching relationship proving key to their progress.
