Campus Life

Campus Photos

Check out photos of Carleton's campus, student life, sports, residence halls, and more!
Housing

Residential life at Carleton is the heart of campus life. 90% of our students live in college housing, and they spend more time there than anywhere else on campus.
Dining

On campus, enjoy full meals in our two dining halls, or grab a quick bite at the Sayles-Hill snack bar & grill. Off-campus, explore a full menu of restaurant options in Northfield and the Twin Cities.
Varsity Athletics

Interested in competitive sports? Carleton offers 19 varsity athletic teams competing in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC), one of NCAA Division III’s best conferences.
Rec Sports & Fitness

Make fitness fun with Carleton's 50 student-organized Club Sports and an Intramural Sports league open to all...or work up a sweat with the training facilities and classes at the gyms and Rec Center.
Arts - Visual & Performing

Whether you want to create it, study it, or just sit back and enjoy it, you'll find the arts everywhere you look at Carleton.
Student Organizations

You'll find every student organization you could imagine—and probably a few you never dreamed of—at Carleton, and plenty of media outlets for them all.
Volunteering

Carleton students collectively log around 4,000 hours of volunteer work each term, to the great benefit of the campus and surrounding community.
Sustainability

With two wind turbines, locally-grown food, and even compostable utensils, we're doing all we can to keep our campus green.
Spiritual Life

All major world religions are represented in the Carleton student body, and 75% of our students say that the primary goal in their education is to “develop a meaningful philosophy of life.”
Beyond the Campus

Discover the small-town charm of Northfield, Carleton's historic home town — or venture a little further to the bright lights of the nearby Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Students Say...

What's it really like to live at Carleton? We asked current students to describe it in their own words.

What's Happening:

Today (Wednesday, October 5th)

10:00am Web Wednesday Sayles-Hill Great Space
11:00am CET Academic Programs Abroad Info Table Sayles-Hill Great Space
12:00pm 2016 Long Term Care Informational Meeting Weitz Center/Larson Meeting Room #236
12:00pm Lunch with TED and Lynda Weitz 027
12:00pm Be the Match Bone Marrow Registry Drive Great Hall
12:00pm Red Cross Blood Drive Great Hall
1:00pm Math Tutoring TRIO house
1:00pm 30 Minutes: Stu Grubb ’85, Senior Hydrogeologist Career Center, Sayles Hill 50
1:30pm 30 Minutes: Sebastian Celis, ’03, BuzzFeed Career Center, Sayles Hill 50
2:00pm Drop-In Data Management Help Gould Library East Wing
2:00pm 30 Minutes: Jonathon Liou ’15, Software Engineer, Thomson Reuters Career Center, Sayles Hill 50
3:15pm [un]Workshop: Streamline Your Scheduling with Google Calendar WCC 027
3:30pm Education and Curriculum Committee Sayles-Hill 251
4:00pm Men's Soccer vs. St. Scholastica Northfield, Minn. - Bell Field
6:00pm "Liberation, Not Assimilation" a talk with Jennicet Gutierrez Boliou 104
7:00pm Technical Interview Workshop CMC 209
7:00pm Women's Volleyball vs UW-River Falls Northfield, Minn. - West Gym
7:00pm How to Find & Fund your Dream Internship Leighton 305

Ongoing

MICHI — Distinctive Paths, Shared Affinity (through Nov. 16) Perlman Teaching Museum, Kaemmer Family Gallery
INDEPENDENCE OF THOUGHT: An Unfolding Story 1866-2016 (through Nov. 16) Perlman Teaching Museum, Braucher Gallery

Full calendar

Students Say...

“Being at Carleton is 100% more awesome than being a dinosaur. I don't care which dinosaur or how awesome it is.”
-Rachel Porcher '13

“You can essentially do anything you want at Carleton. If you want to party, there will be parties for you to go to. If you want to be in the library studying on a Saturday night, there will be people in there with you. If you want to play Ultimate every day for 4 years, you can do that too. You can do all of the above if you want to.”
-Simon Johansen ‘14