Housing and Policies

• Guaranteed On-Campus Housing For All Undergraduates
• 100% of first-year students live in college housing
• 94% of all undergraduates live in college housing

Housing options:

• Coed Housing
• Wellness housing (alcohol/drug/smoke-free)

• Deadline for housing deposit: Not reported
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• First-time first-year students allowed to have car

Campus

• Urban setting
• Large town (10,000 - 49,999)
• Residential campus

• center for public affairs and civic engagement, public art museum , astronomical observatory, arboretum, rare books and archives, research greenhouses, institute for study of international human rights, scanning and transmission electron microscopes, laser flash photolysis, 400 MHz NMR, x-ray diffractometer, spectrophotometers, chromatographs, electrophoresis, microcalorimeters, piezometers (groundwater monitoring wells), kettlehole research bog, professional blacksmith's forge, woodworking shop, crew rowing center, technical climbing wall, Nordic ski trails, community radio station

• 180 miles from Boston, 75 miles from Portland.

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

• Student newspaper: Colby Echo

• Black and Hispanic student group, environmental coalition, social service and political organizations, volunteer center, international club, five a capella groups, Amnesty International, women's group, outing club, Habitat for Humanity