Housing and Policies

• First-Year Students Guaranteed On-Campus Housing
• 85% of first-year students live in college housing
• 70% of all undergraduates live in college housing

Housing options:

• Coed Housing
• Men's Housing
• Women's Housing
• Fraternity/Sorority Housing

• Deadline for housing deposit: 01-MAY
• Amount of housing deposit: $300
• Housing deposit is refundable in full if student does not enroll.
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• First-time first-year students allowed to have car

Campus

• Suburban setting
• Small city (50,000 - 249,999)
• Residential campus

• planetarium, Civil War museum, undergraduate science research laboratory, computer/mathematics research laboratory, greenhouse, arboretum, Audubon Sanctuary, geographic information systems (GIS) lab, 24-hour cyber-cafe

• 60 miles from Chicago, 30 miles from Milwaukee.

indicates availability
Choral groups		Concert band
Dance		Drama
Film society		Fraternities
Jazz band		Literary magazine
Marching band		Music ensembles
Musical theater		Opera
Radio station		Sororities
Student government		Student newspaper
Symphony orchestra		Television station
Yearbook

• Percent of men who join fraternities: 22%
• Percent of women who join sororities: 25%
• Student newspaper: The Current

• Fellowship of Christian Athletes, black student union, international students association, United Women of Color, Carthage Christian Fellowship, Circle K International, College Republicans, Young Democrats