I’ve heard recently about residential Colleges, and am intrigued. A couple questions:
- Do athletes room together in most?
- What U.S. colleges have them?
That’s a pretty broad question. You know you can google this, right? There’s an entire wikipedia page about it.
Yes, I’ve looked around. However, the wikipedia page is missing certain schools I know for certain have residential Colleges, and so I was at least hoping to hear about some more in stead of something more comprehensive.
Check this link: http://collegiateway.org/colleges/#united-states
Thanks zapfino, that’s a helpful link however it’s missing schools like Notre Dame and Duke which is why I’m asking for examples here in case any others have been missed or been added recently that I may want to be aware of.
Why not email the schools specifically? You’re gonna be hard pressed to find a website that has comprehensive information about every single residential school in the country.
I’m confused. I kind of assumed you meant res colleges like zapfino’s link but then you mentioned ND and Duke which don’t have that system. Do you mean you are looking for colleges where students live on campus (which is going to be in the hundreds) or colleges that have residential college systems within the school, grouping kids together into communities for several years?
Oh whoops, I interpreted “residential” to mean schools that offer on-campus housing (the opposite of a commuter school.) Didn’t know there was a particular system in question.
@iwannabe_Brown Yes, Notre Dame does have a residential college system of sorts. Students are randomly “sorted” into residence halls freshman year, and the vast majority remain in the same hall for all four years. There is no specialty housing for athletes, honor students, etc; everyone is mixed together. The dorms each host their own formals and charity events, and field teams for inter-dorm athletic tournaments. It may not be called a “residential college” system, but it’s essentially the same thing.
And Duke recently added residential communities
That explains why I didn’t know about Duke. I also didn’t realize that about ND. I would certainly consider that system to be res colleges. Is that a new thing too?
No, I believe it’s been around for quite a while