Residential Colleges

Goals of the Residential College Program

Shepard's outside patio overlooks a lush green space.The original purposes of the residential colleges were threefold: first, to extend the learning environment from the classroom to extracurricular life; second, to provide relatively small supportive communities in which the student would find something of a small-college atmosphere within the University; and third, to nurture better relations between faculty and students by establishing informal connections between student members and the colleges' Fellows. Generally, the goals of the residential colleges are to enrich the intellectual, cultural, and social lives of their students and to help them develop lifelong habits of learning and responsibility.

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Northwestern's Residential Colleges

There are eleven residential colleges at Northwestern University. Click on a name below for the description of a specific college.