University Housing

During the 2025-26 academic year, Auburn University will offer three Residential Learning Communities (RLC) options for students living on campus. Residential Learning Communities are available to first-year students in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and the Discover Auburn: Out of State RLC.

There is no additional charge to participate in any RLC. RLC member benefits include:

• Opportunity to live with other ambitious students and expand future professional networks
• Interaction with faculty and peers about substantive matters
• Invitations to community-specific events throughout the year

The 2025-2026 RLC application will open on Jan. 8 and Priority Consideration ends Feb. 21

Engineered for Success – Aubie Hall (all students)

Engineering is a challenging degree choice and requires students to quickly learn how to manage their work and time, as well as their own learning process to be successful; therefore, the Engineered for Success Residential Learning Community (RLC) focuses on providing students with direct access to an engineering peer advisor and an engineering advisor throughout their first year. Students are exposed to a support system that encourages the development of good academic and professional habits, learning about engineering as a degree and career choice, and getting connected with the engineering community at Auburn. The first-year seminar course utilizes sketchnoting and engineering career design to help students describe their own process of becoming successful engineering students. This course is also a substitute for ENGR 1100.

All students – including Honors College students – may apply for the RLC and live in Aubie Hall.

Discover Auburn: Out of State – Harper Hall

Are you from out-of-state? Worried about the transition being so far from home? The Discover Auburn: Out-of-State Student Learning Community is designed for students who are looking to discover Auburn while connecting with other students who are also far from home. Students will redefine what “home” means to them and explore Auburn to understand what their new home is all while learning traditional First Year Seminar topics like time management, study strategies, campus involvement, and career preparation. This Residential Learning Community is designed for students who are more than 250 miles away from their hometown.

Students may apply for the Discover Auburn RLC and live in Harper Hall in the Quad community.

The Residential Learning Community Application is located in AUAccess

• The Application will be available in AU Access > Academic Portals Card > Student Self-Service > First Year Seminar and Learning Community Application.

RLC Roommate Selection Instructions

• Log into the Student Portal and relaunch your Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 Housing Application.
• Click the Roommate Search and Selection page of the application
• Click on the blue hyperlink labeled, Search for Roommates by Profiles
  • There are different sections on this page (i.e., Areas of Interest, Personal Habits, Profile Info, RA Interest, and Smoking Preferences). You will need to scroll until you get to the section titled, Profile Info:
    • Change Any to High for “Residential Learning Community”
  • After completing this, you will scroll to the bottom of the page and click the navy button labeled, SEARCH
    • This will populate “suggested roommates”
    • The students who are displayed here are other students accepted into the same RLC.