Residential Life at UMBC offers a number of Living-Learning Communities (LLCs) that connect students with shared academic interests in culture, academics, or community service. Students within LLCs live together within a residential community and participate in academic and community programming especially designed for them. The ultimate goal of a LLC experience is to integrate learning from the classroom into the overall UMBC experience.

Top Reasons to Live in a LLC

1. Integration of academics interests with community engagement
2. Connection to students and faculty with related interests
3. Make friends for life!

LLCS Available at UMBC               

• Center for Women in Technology (CWIT)
• Discovery Scholars
• Honors College
• Humanities
• Intercultural Living Exchange (ILE)
• Individualized Study (INDS)
• Shriver – Service Learning
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
• Visual and Performing Arts
• Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL)

Benefits of Living-Learning Communities

• Students involved in an LLC at UMBC self-reported:
• They were more satisfied with their overall academic and learning experience on campus than students not involved in a LLC.*
• They were more engaged and involved on campus than students not involved in a LLC.*
• They interacted with more university faculty and staff members than students not involved in a LLC.*
• They had a greater understand of diversity and multiculturalism than students not involved in a LLC.*

*This data was compiled through the annual Educational Benchmarking Incorporated (EBI) Resident Satisfaction Survey in November and December of 2016