learning community
or theme house!
Iowa State offers both live-in and live-out learning communities. What you’ll find listed below are the live-in learning communities where you live on the same floor as others who have a similar major as you.
Looking for a live-out learning community or can’t find a live-in one that fits your major? Check out the Learning Communities website.
In a theme house, you live on the same floor as others who have a shared academic or other interest.
Signing Up
Choosing to be part of a live-in learning community or theme house is easy! Just list which one you want to be in on your housing contract. Already signed a housing contract? Log back in and and add your learning community or theme house.
The highest preference in the assignments’ process is given to your learning community or theme house. This means that you may have to choose your learning community or theme house over your roommate if they aren’t eligible to live there.
And, be sure to look at the location of each learning community or theme house – because that’s where you’ll be living! If space is no longer available in your learning community or theme house, we’d assign you to a different location based on your other housing preferences.
Residential Learning Communities
RLCs are small groups of students who live together on designated houses or floors. Students share academic interests, classes, living spaces and develop friendships as part of an innovative program in cooperative learning. As such, most RLCs are limited to students in certain majors.
Theme Houses
Theme houses provide opportunities for students with common interests to live together and pursue those interests through organized programs and activities. While there are no academic or major requirements, ROTC Theme Houses requires military affiliation and Cross Cultural Theme House requires residents to live with a roommate from a different country.
Available Theme Houses | Location |
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Air Force ROTC (AFROTC) | Larch |
Allergen Awareness | Martin |
Army ROTC | Willow |
Gender Inclusive Housing | Freeman |