<p>Although it's not a must, I would really like to attend a college (not university, preferably LAC) that requires all students to live on campus. Any ideas of some decent (top 100/top LACs) that are like this?</p>
<p>Amherst College!
Williams College!</p>
<p>Living in dorms is not all about it being Mandatory. Living in dorms is mostly about the proximity from your home to that college. If you lived in brooklyn and got into NYU, it would be a much smarter idea financially to commute being that NYU is sky-rocket expensive but still</p>
<p>well top Liberal arts colleges are Amherst && Williams but if you live in amherst, massachusets then you can forget about living in the dorms</p>
<p><a href="https://cms.amherst.edu/campuslife%5B/url%5D">https://cms.amherst.edu/campuslife</a>
<a href="http://williams.edu/home/fast_facts/#camp%5B/url%5D">http://williams.edu/home/fast_facts/#camp</a></p>
<p>pretty much most LACs have that requirement. Oberlin's another school that does that.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt Univ. will be requiring all students to live on campus, starting this year. To make that possible, a new Freshman Commons is opening next fall, including new dorms, rec center, dining areas. The additional dorms will enable the univ. to house all students on campus. Upperclassmen will have a variety of housing options, including apartment-style housing, but all of it will be on campus.</p>
<p>^ Is that on the Peabody campus?</p>
<p>Yes, the Commons Project is on the Peabody campus, which adjoins the main campus. Walk across a small road or take the overpass. The rest of the dorms are on the main part of the campus (that is, the part that was there before Vanderbilt took over Peabody College).</p>
<p>Virtually all colleges will allow students who live nearby to commute, so I don't think there's a school that requires "all" freshmen to live on campus. However, many schools require all freshmen who do not live nearby live on campus. Some schools require sophomores to do so as well. Very few will require juniors and seniors to live on campus, although some do guarantee housing for all 4 years if you want it.</p>
<p>the college of wooster requires you to live on campus.</p>
<p>Chedva, Vanderbilt will be requiring all students, not just freshman, to live on campus. The ideal is to build a cohesive campus community, one which encourages all undergraduates to participate fully in campus life.</p>
<p>I'm sure there are other examples, but you are correct that this approach is the exception, not the rule.</p>
<p>Even the College of Wooster allows exemptions for students who want to live at home with a parent, or who are of "non-traditional" age and want to live with a spouse and/or children off campus.</p>