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Learn to thrive and honor God through community with your peers. Residence Life pursues five themes: Student Engagement, Academic Success, Inclusion and Belonging, Life after College, and Self-Care and Wellness. We also stand on 5 Pillars which are Jesus, Neighbor, Community, Discipleship, and Accountability.

Living on campus provides experiences that include making new friends, facing new challenges, and developing memories that will last you a lifetime. Living within the campus community is an important aspect of a student’s personal development and education. Research continues to demonstrate that students who live on campus benefit in a number of ways. In fact, students who live on campus beyond their freshman year*:

  • Are more likely to persist and graduate
  • Gain more interpersonal contacts with faculty and peers
  • Experience greater personal growth and development
  • Have higher academic engagement and grade point average
  • Have higher social-interpersonal engagement
  • Participate more in out-of-class activities
  • Have more positive and inclusive attitudes and openness to diversity
  • Find more satisfaction with their undergraduate experience

*Source: How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research by Ernest Pascarella and Patrick Terenzini. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers

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  • All students must live on campus for the first three years of their time at Charleston Southern University.
  • Veterans and married couples are exempt from this request.
  • If you are 21 prior to the start of the semester you could be exempt to this request.

If you have questions, please contact Residence Life at 843-863-7000 or reslife@csuniv.edu 

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