Freshman Academy and Housing

Freshman Academy offers living-learning communities for students who would like to live on campus during their first year at BYU. Students in these communities are enrolled in a set of classes with each other and live in the same residence areas. This provides the opportunity for learning to take place outside the classroom as students discuss and study course material in their residence halls.
     To explore learning community options, click the "Joining FA" menu link above.

To facilitate the living-learning environment, Freshman Academy has worked with the On-Campus Housing office to assign the living-learning communities to specific halls on campus. When students are registered for an on-campus learning community, they will be allowed to select a room within the housing area designated for their community. Since housing areas are assigned by learning community, students who are registered for different envelopes within the same learning community may live together.
     To learn more about how courses are organized in learning communities, click here.

Freshman Academy also offers learning communities for students living in off-campus housing. Though these communities do not have the living-learning component, students are still guided by a peer mentor to build connections in their classes, study groups, and activities.