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University College (UC) is a residential college affiliated to the University of Melbourne in Australia. It was formerly known as University Women's College. The college is situated in the suburb of Parkville.
The college is located on its own plot of land, north of Ormond College and bounded by College Crescent to the southeast, Royal Parade to the west and Cemetery Road West to the northeast.
The college houses 198 students each year, from the University of Melbourne, RMIT University, Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Victorian College of the Arts.
University College was renovated between 2007 and 2008 to include new recreation complex with indoor sporting and other facilities including a spacious Junior Common Room, a design studio, TV room, gym, band room and a multi-purpose area with billiard and table tennis tables. It also has an area set up with cafe-style tables and a kitchen. The renovations also included the building of new student rooms with en-suite bathrooms and full-size beds. As of August 2016 the college is undergoing a transformative project which will result in an expansion of the community to accommodate 320 students from 2017.
The college's colours (such as worn on the sporting field) are maroon, pale blue and black. The mascot is the boar. Its motto is Frappe Fort which is French for "Strike Hard".
The college was created by a statute of the University of Melbourne in 1937 to be an affiliated college of the university for women. In 1975 the college became co-residential.
A university college (Swedish: högskola; Norwegian: høyskole, høgskole or høgskule; Danish: professionshøjskole; literally meaning "high school" and "professional high school") in Denmark, Norway and Sweden is an independent institution that provides tertiary education (Bachelor and Master degrees) and quaternary education (PhD). These institutions traditionally had emphasis on less academic and more vocational programmes such as teacher or nursing education as well as shorter technical education. Historically, these institutions were somewhat similar to a Fachhochschule in Germany and to a Polytechnic in the United Kingdom. Today, the distinction between university colleges and universities is of less importance in all the Scandinavian countries.