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Members of Living Learning Communities gather to celebrate at the LLC Welcome Picnic on the Quad.

Our living learning communities allow you to live and take classes with a group of students who share a common interest or academic major.


Why Living Learning Communities?

You’ll develop skills and connections that support your academic achievement, a better understanding of yourself and others, and a greater ability to balance your academic and social life. This eases your transition to college life and provides you with a group of peers and friends who become like a family away from home.

More than 25+ living learning communities are offered, grouped under the broad categories of:

  • Arts and expression
  • Business and management
  • Cultural exploration and diversity
  • Education
  • Leadership and citizenship
  • Science, technology, engineering and math
  • Global connections
  • Honors
  • Theme housing

How to Request a Living Learning Community

Indicate your living learning community choice(s) on the online Housing and Meal Plan Application. If you are interested in more than one, rank your choices to a maximum of three. If you are also making a mutual roommate request, each of you must make identical rankings. There is no additional housing cost associated with joining a living learning community.

Honors Students

If you have been invited to participate in the Renée Crown University Honors Program, you are encouraged to enroll in any living learning community. Honors students who do not select one of the other living learning communities will be automatically housed in proximity to other honors students in clusters collectively known as the Honors Learning Community.

There are so many resources offered to LLC students that many other students don’t get access to. Take advantage of what’s being offered to you even if you aren’t sure how it could help you right now.

Oliver Raycroft ’25 Environmental Engineering College of Engineering and Computer Science
Learning and Living Community Peer Mentor Oliver Raycroft and Engineering and Computer Science LLC's students meet at the Shaw Multipurpose Room for a workshop on Class Registration, 2024.

Also of Interest

FAQs About Living Learning Communities

Get answers to all your questions about living in a living learning community.

Student with Otto.

Housing at Syracuse University

​Syracuse University has 21 residential halls that over 8,000 students call home.

Students looking at computer in dorm.

Renée Crown University Honors Program

With challenge comes reward—that’s the philosophy of the Renée Crown University Honors Program.

Honors student sitting and talking.