residential colleges
Dormitories with programming
Residential colleges are living-learning communities within a university where students share housing, dining, and social spaces organized around a particular theme, academic focus, or simply administrative grouping.
The model, borrowed from Oxford and Cambridge, aims to create smaller communities within large institutions.
Some residential colleges have their own faculty, traditions, and intramural identities: Yale's residential colleges each have a dean and distinctive character.
The term sometimes overlaps with dormitory but implies a more integrated educational and social structure.
- dining hallsCommunal eating facilities
- formal dinnerCeremonial evening meal
- housemasterBoarding school dormitory head
- house systemInstitutional subdivision for competition
- staircasesFixed indoor climbing routes
common rooms · communal dining · student clubs · university housing · porters · dorm · courtyard · high table · Oxbridge · lounge · honors programs · social events · tutors · cafeteria · Harvard · crests · libraries · intramurals
- Ivy LeagueHarvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia
- PrincetonPrinceton University, orange and black, reunions, campus, undergraduate
- YaleEli, blue and white, Skull and Bones, The Game, Harvard-Yale
residential collegesday schools
Schools without dormitories
dormitories · dorms · independent living · residence halls · student housing
residential collegescorrespondence schools
Schools teaching via mail
part-time programs · open universities · MOOCs · self-paced learning