List of Schools with Residential Colleges?

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<p>Does anyone know which schools have residential colleges? I visited Yale recently and just loved the idea…</p>

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<p>I second that request. I know princeton has 1 or two 4 year ones and the other 5 or 6 are 2 year res. colleges.</p>

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<p>Yale, Rice, U of Miami</p>

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<p>Depends on your definition, but all of the following claim to have them in one form or another:
Rice
Harvard
Middlebury
Princeton
Penn
Truman State
UC San Diego
UC Santa Cruz</p>

<p>there are more</p>

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<p>miami has res colleges?</p>

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<p>pomona, claremont mckenna, vassar, a lot of liberal art colleges have residential campus.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt University is having the grand opening of its freshman residential college system, known as The Commons, this fall. Ten houses surrounding four quads. The dorms are new, the rec area is new, as is the dining area, and the idea of a residential college is new to Vanderbilt. At this point, it will only involve freshmen.</p>

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<p>liek, the OP means a residential commons system, not a campus that most students live on.</p>

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<p>Yup, U of Miami has a residential college system, as cited by Fiske’s Guide as well.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,29532-1;41456-2;29623-2;29618-2,00.html[/url]”>http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,29532-1;41456-2;29623-2;29618-2,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Just to point out, every school with a residential college system has a different take on what that means. At Harvard (I hear, at least) there really isn’t that much emphasis placed on sticking together with your residential college members that much and at some schools the system only applies for freshmen/sophomores, whereas at Rice literally everything is governed by the college system.</p>

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<p>University of Wisconsin-Madison has Chadborne Residential College.</p>

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<p>Like Clendenator wrote, some schools have residential-y community options (I’m thinking about the Alice B. Cook House at Cornell, for example) even most of the campus is not set up in “residential colleges.”</p>

<p>I like Chicago’s house system a lot. Houses are subdivisions of larger dorms, and the house is governed by a Resident Head (grad student). House members are encouraged to eat together in their dining hall (at their house table) and play on intramural sports teams together, and share lounge spaces and traditions. Chicago kids tend to move off campus after a year or two in housing, but for a first or second-year who has yet to carve himself or herself into the social scene, the house system is indispensable.</p>

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<p>Princeton has 3 2-year colleges and 3 4-year colleges.</p>

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<p>I think Rice has the best college system. The entire school is based on it and it makes the atmosphere at Rice so special.</p>

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<p>Michigan State has 3 residential colleges (james madison-politics/international relations, lyman briggs-sciences/pre-med, and rcah-arts and humanities)</p>

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<p>USC has 5 with the nicest being the Parkside Arts and Humanities Residential College and Parkside International Residential College. </p>

<p>[USC</a> Auxiliary Services Housing](<a href=“http://housing.usc.edu/building/building.aspx?PageBuildingCode=IRC]USC”>Parkside International Residential College | USC Housing)</p>

<p>[USC</a> Auxiliary Services Housing](<a href=“http://housing.usc.edu/building/building.aspx?PageBuildingCode=PRB]USC”>Parkside Arts & Humanities Residential College | USC Housing)</p>