First Year Experience

Learning happens inside and outside the classroom. By choosing to live in a Living Learning Community (LLC), you will have added many benefits to your first year experience, including close friendships, study hours in your hall, close faculty relationships, tutoring, and special programs developed just for your community.

Living on campus provides many added benefits to first-year students like proximity to classes and campus events, but choosing to live in an LLC gives you even more added benefits that will help you transition to life as an Aggie.

What is a Living-Learning Community?

An LLC is a grouping of students in a residence hall who share academic, social, and cultural interests. LLCs vary in structure, goals, and curriculum, but share all the following:

• Are focused primarily on first-year students.
• Small college settings with large university resources.
• Provide opportunity for personal relationships between students, faculty, and staff.

Benefits of Living-Learning Communities

• Develop a network of friends
• Improve your grades
• Graduate at higher rates than students who are not part of an LLC
• Meet people who have similar goals to yours
• Participate in social activities related to your academic major
• Find help and encouragement through your peer network

Engineering Living Learning Community (ELLC)

The ELLC is a Texas A&M University residence hall program for first year engineering students. The ELLC is designed to create a community of scholars to help in the transition to college and the commitment to academic excellence in engineering. Upper-class engineering students also live in the community and serve as mentors, tutors, and resident advisors for the students participating in the community.

Honors Housing

Students are the heart of the honors community at Texas A&M University. The honors residence halls, McFadden and Lechner, are just for first-year students
and contribute to and enhance the honors experience.

Leadership, Living, Learning Community (L3C)

The Leadership Living Learning Community (L3C) is an award-winning freshman academic interest group centered on exposing you to theoretically based concepts of leadership, including a relational leadership model centered on social justice; challenging you to be increasingly globally oriented; stretching you in your development of self and others; and supporting Texas A&M University’s core purpose of developing leaders of character dedicated to serving the greater good.

First Year Aggies LLC

The First Year Aggies LLC is an incoming freshmen living learning community that helps you be more successful academically, and helps with the transition to college.