First-year traditional
Harkin Hall
The 1920s hall on the Old Quad: double rooms, floor lounges, and a live-in don on every 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. 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 a 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, with 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, and 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. It's big enough for gigs, galleries, and co-op employers, and 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.