section_path: Student life/Residential colleges
section_name: Residential colleges
paragraph_text: Residential colleges
  
  Melbourne University currently has nine independent residential colleges affiliated with the university in total, seven of which are located in an arc around the cricket oval at the northern edge of the campus, known as College Crescent. The other two are located outside of university grounds.
  
  Most of the university's residential colleges also admit students from RMIT University and Monash University, Parkville campus, with selected colleges also accepting students from the Australian Catholic University and Victoria University.
  
  Graduate House (1972–) is a residential college for graduates located in Parkville's graduate precinct, which began its affiliation with the university in 1972. Whitley College (1965–2017) was a former college of the university, though it was sold to a redeveloper in 2016. Ridley College (1965–2005) was an affiliated residential college of the University of Melbourne and was the first college of the university to be co-residential for men and women.