At Florida State, a Living‐Learning Community (LLC) is a small group of students who live together, share an interest, and take one or two of their classes together — usually in a small classroom inside their residence hall. Designed primarily for first-year students, an LLC is a great place to plug into a supportive network of students and distinguished faculty as soon as you arrive at FSU.
If you’re admitted to FSU as a First Time in College student, there’s an LLC for you — regardless of your major, career goals, or accelerated credit earned in high school. Once you’ve submitted your Fall/Spring housing contract, consider applying for one or more LLCs. Selection is competitive and based on the quality of a brief LLC application. To learn more about each community and how to apply, explore the links on this page or contact University Housing.
| Living-Learning Community | Location | Theme | Number of Students | Features Include | Eligible Applicants |
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Azalea Hall | Maximizing your potential by providing engagement, networking and early exposure in business careers | 152 | Courses that help students complete pre-business requirements; career opportunities; engagement with business faculty; networking with industry professionals and alumni; extensive mentoring; early exposure to resources; and a supportive environment with other business students. | Pre-business majors or students intending to major in business |
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Magnolia Hall | Launching your engineering career while learning about the grand challenges engineers can help solve | 30 | Courses that help students complete pre-engineering requirements and improve engineering-related skills; opportunities to become a National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholar; leadership, research, and community engagement opportunities | Pre-engineering majors or students intending to major in engineering preferred |
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Deviney Hall | Developing creative, technical and practical entrepreneurial skills to turn ideas into action | 36 | Presentations by guest entrepreneurs; start-up site visits; team projects; design thinking workshop; competitions; class in FSU's Innovation Hub | Any first-year student |
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Bryan Hall | Exploration and discovery of interests, majors, and career paths | 128 | Organized exploration of interests, academic majors, and career options; interactions with campus leaders and distinguished faculty; professional mentorship option | Any first-year student |
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Wildwood Hall | Pathways to academic and professional success for first-generation college students from all majors | 76 | Personal and career development opportunities; courses in academic success strategies; community events; interaction with faculty; access to college life coaching, skills support, alumni mentors, and scholarship opportunities. | Any first-generation and first-time-in-college student |
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Dorman Hall | Understanding and impacting society at local, state, national, and global levels | 38 | Interaction with social science faculty; group discussions of politics, culture, and public policy; presentations by experts in global and public affairs; opportunities for global engagement through the Global Citizenship Certificate program. | Social science majors or minors preferred |
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Reynolds Hall | Exploring and preparing for careers in the health professions | 44 | Guided exploration of the health care field, academic majors, and career options; interactions with campus leaders, advisors, and distinguished faculty in health care; professional shadowing option | Health-related majors only |
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Cawthon Hall | Exploring and preparing for careers in music | 180 | Concerts, jam sessions, and guest artists; practice and performance spaces; Spring Break study abroad option | Music majors or minors only |
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Wildwood Hall | Exploring nursing as a major and a profession | 30 | Interactions with nursing faculty, nursing advisors and upper-division nursing majors | Nursing majors preferred |
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Cawthon Hall | Academic and career development for women in STEM fields | 33 | Required colloquium class focused on STEM career development, paid student research option, and leadership opportunities spanning all four years at FSU. | Math, science, or engineering majors only |
Yes! Two LLCs offer courses and other opportunities of value to any first-time-in-college student: The Entrepreneurship & Innovation LLC and the Global & Public Affairs LLC. Six LLCs with special requirements or major-specific themes are also available; look for those if you're a first-generation college student; if you’re a music, business, exploratory, or engineering major; if you're exploring nursing or another health profession, or if you're a woman majoring in math or science. Visit each LLC's website to discover which ones call your name, then apply for as many as you like. Applicants who are invited to more than one LLC at a time and who accept promptly may accept the invitation of their choice.
Any incoming first-time-in-college student may apply to one or more LLCs.
No. LLC residents pay no more than non-LLC residents for the same hall and room type. The most common room type in all LLCs, as in most on-campus halls available to new students, is a suite-style double with shared bathroom; the cost of this room type is fully paid for students who have an active Florida Pre-Paid Dormitory account.
In most LLCs, residents take one 1-credit-hour colloquium and one 3-hour course. In the colloquium, residents meet weekly to explore topics related to the LLC’s theme. The 3-credit-hour course is also theme-related and may fulfill a Liberal Studies requirement (courses required of all FSU students, regardless of major). Each LLC details its course requirements in its LLC agreement.
For the Music Living-Learning Community, selection is based on the student's audition to the FSU College of Music or the School of Theatre. For most other LLCs, selection is based on a brief online essay application.
Those applying by April 14, 2025 qualified for priority consideration, but any first-time-in-college student admitted for Summer or Fall 2025 who has submitted a Fall-Spring housing contract may apply now as an alternate.
Transfer students majoring or minoring in music or music theatre may apply for the Music LLC by emailing Denise Mercier at dmercier@fsu.edu.
To apply online:
For more information, please email Denise Mercier at dmercier@fsu.edu.
For all LLCs except Music and FGEN Noles, applicants will submit a brief response to this prompt:
University Housing Department
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Living–Learning Coordinator