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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

Residence Life · Housing

2

Stevenson College

Academic Support Services · Academics

3

Rosa Parks African American Theme House

Academic Support Services · Academics

4

Crown College

Residence Life · Housing

5

Merrill College

Academic Support Services · Academics

6

Porter College

Residence Life · Housing

7

Kresge College

Academic Support Services · Academics

8

Rachel Carson College

Diversity and Inclusion · Residence Life

9

Oakes College

LGBTQ+ Themed Housing · Multicultural Themed Housing

10

College Nine

Academic Support Services · Academics

11

John R. Lewis College

Housing · Residence Life

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