Student Experience

The first-year summer experience program offered by the Office of New Student Programs and Transition familiarizes incoming students with Elon's campus and helps them develop leadership and team-building skills before classes begin in the fall.

Students will enjoy two new on-campus dining options for the upcoming academic year.

Sixteen freshmen worked recently on a campus farm, a Habitat building site and with a local conservation center as part of a summer experience through the university's Kernodle Center.

Adventures in Leadership, a First-Year Summer Experience, took 55 incoming students to the New River Gorge in West Virginia for whitewater rafting and leadership development.

High school scholars in the university's college access and success program receive a hands-on lesson on the history and complexity of wheat cultivation.

Students in the class of 2017 may apply for open Study USA programs by visiting the Study USA website  

The Fiske Guide identified the "best and most interesting" colleges and universities out of the nation's 2,200 four-year schools.