Celebrating our scholars

Scholarship is fundamental to Ormond’s ethos, and its students have always achieved academically.

In the College’s early decades, Ormondians dominated the University prize list, while female students in particular, despite being few in number, disproportionately overrepresented amongst the top-performing students and prize-winners.

An annual honour group was established in the College’s early days, acknowledging many outstanding students who in some cases went on to be Nobel Prize winners and leading intellectuals. While this tradition fell away and the College ceased to formally recognise an honour group during the twentieth century, Ormond students nevertheless continued to excel, with many going on to win Rhodes and Fulbright Scholarships, as well as other honours.

The tradition of honouring outstanding students has returned in the last decade, with the College continuing to honour the scholarly intent of its founders with a celebratory dinner for our Ormond Scholars, who are given a special academic gown to wear at Formal Hall.