About Residential Colleges
Residential Colleges are more than a set of buildings. Through intentional and mutually beneficial educational networks, Residential Colleges creates experiences rooted in discovery, creative inquiry, and engaged citizenship. The residential college system cultivates student success through opportunities to engage with faculty, the intentional creation of a diverse community, and connections to campus resources.
Interacting with world-class faculty inside and outside of the classroom is the hallmark of a Vanderbilt education.
Within the residential college system, students are presented with the opportunity to interact with, learn from, and experience life with a professor who spends their days researching world problems and educating future leaders before coming home to a unique residential community. Faculty heads connect students to other faculty members through informal interactions, faculty salons, and other events throughout the academic year.
For students not living in a residential college, Residential Colleges provides ample opportunities to connect with faculty in formal and informal settings. From Dean’s Dinners and field trips, the annual Murray Lecture, and Sophomore Year Experience events, Residential Colleges is committed to facilitating opportunities to get to know Vanderbilt's incredible faculty.
The residential college system includes two areas of focus: the first-year experience and upper-division student engagement. These focus areas are broken down into several key programs and initiatives.
All first-year students reside on The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. After the first-year, students may apply to transition to another college for sophomore year and beyond. By participating in the residential college system, students get to know other students, faculty, and staff and become more connected and involved in their residential community and broader Vanderbilt network.
Residential Colleges also oversees all orientation programs (CommonVU Orientation, Transfer Student Orientation, and International Student Orientation) as well as the Sophomore Year Experience. Through these initiatives, Residential Colleges creates opportunities for student engagement that align with the department’s six pillars (sense of self, integrative learning, dialogue across difference, advocacy, leadership potential, and global connections).
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