First-year traditional
Harkin Hall
The 1920s hall on the Old Quad — double rooms, floor lounges, and a live-in don per floor. Loud, friendly, and five minutes from every first-year classroom. Meal plan required.
Student life
The four years happen between classes
Lectures are maybe twenty hours a week. The rest is where you live, who you join, and the city out the door — so here's the honest tour of all three.
Where you'll live
Three residences, three speeds
First year is loud and communal on purpose; by fourth year most students want a kitchen and a closed door. The housing ladder is designed around that arc.
Upper-year suites
Miller Green Suites
Four-bedroom suites with shared kitchen and living room, overlooking the intramural fields. Quiet-hours floors available. Most second-years land here.
Apartment-style
Caldwell Commons
Independent apartments a ten-minute walk from campus on the river path — full kitchens, twelve-month leases, and priority for students with families and grad students.
First-year residence is guaranteed if you pay your admission deposit by May 1 — no lottery, no waitlist anxiety.
Clubs & societies
60+ clubs — here's a sampler
Every September the club fair takes over the Green for two days. If the one you want doesn't exist, the Students' Association funds new clubs with ten signatures and a plan.
- Caldwell Consulting Group
- Nursing Students' Society
- Design Guild & print shop
- Data for Good
- Robotics & Maker Club
- Outdoor Recreation Club
- South Asian Students' Association
- Pride Collective
- Campus Radio CKDW
- Intramural leagues (11 sports)
- Improv & Sketch Society
- Community Garden Co-op
Arden Falls
A city that fits a student budget
A real city, student-sized
Arden Falls is home to about 180,000 people — big enough for gigs, galleries, and co-op employers, small enough that your bike gets you anywhere in twenty minutes.
The river runs through it
Campus sits on the Arden River trail network — students run, paddle, and cross-country ski the same 40 km of trails, depending on the month.
Transit included
Your student card is a citywide transit pass, covered by the fees you already pay. Most students don't bring a car; the ones who do regret the parking pass.
Employers next door
The regional hospital, two health-tech campuses, the city's open-data office, and a dense small-business core supply most of our co-op and studio placements.
See the campus these pages keep describing
Walk all seven stops on the virtual tour, or ask us to mail the residence and student-life guides.