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The Residential Colleges

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Find community and engage! Whether you live on campus or not, you will be affiliated with one of our 10 residential colleges, providing many opportunities for activities, advising, and leadership. The colleges are not associated with your major. So for example, you can major in computer engineering but be affiliated with Porter College, where the theme is arts-centered. Year-after-year, our alumni identify their residential college experience and student group involvement as central to their core identities and connection to campus. The people you will live with in these communities, the shared experiences, your growth academically and personally, are all fostered by the close-knit, home-away-from-home structure our residential colleges provide.

11 stops

1

Cowell College

Campus History · Clubs and Organizations

2

Stevenson College

Campus History · Clubs and Organizations

3

Rosa Parks African American Theme House

Campus History · Clubs and Organizations

4

Crown College

Campus History · Clubs and Organizations

5

Merrill College

Campus History · Clubs and Organizations

6

Porter College

Campus History · Clubs and Organizations

7

Kresge College

Campus History · Clubs and Organizations

8

Rachel Carson College

Diversity and Inclusion · Residence Life

9

Oakes College

Campus History · Clubs and Organizations

10

College Nine

International Student · Housing

11

John R. Lewis College

Campus History · Clubs and Organizations

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