Housing and Policies

• 55% of first-year students live in college housing
• 12% of all undergraduates live in college housing

Housing options:

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

• Deadline for housing deposit: 02-MAY
• Amount of housing deposit: $500
• 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

• Urban setting
• Very large city (over 500,000)
• Commuter campus

• museum of contemporary photography, photography studios, film/video sound stage, dance performance space, theater, audio technology center, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Center for Black Music Research, Glass Curtain Gallery, C33 Gallery, Multimedia Center/Conaway Center, Urban Fusion

• Downtown.

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: The Columbia Chronicle

• Association of Black Journalists, Umoja, Black Actor's Guild, Black Ink, Latino Alliance, Campus Christian Ministry, environmental campus organization, Hillel, international student organization, Not In Our Name