College of Liberal Arts

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Accommodation details

Benedictine University maintains and operates residence halls as an integral part of academic life, as educational experiences are not solely contained in the classroom, laboratory or library. The residence halls provide an opportunity for students to combine academic life with social development. Students must establish and test their own values, develop social skills, determine priorities and learn to organize their time. Living on campus affords many opportunities, including the chance to make new friends and enjoy a variety of campus activities. Students who live on campus also have easier access to the library, classrooms, dining and athletic facilities, and avoid soaring gas prices and increasingly time-consuming commutes. Ondrak Hall, located on the south end of campus, is an all-female, predominately freshman smoke free hall that houses up to 160 students. Jaeger Hall is an all-male predominately freshman smoke free hall that houses up to 150 students on four floors. Neuzil Hall, an upper-classmen coeducational smoke free residency facility, is located at the northern end of campus. The hall features 44 suite-style rooms each housing three students. All the residential halls are provided with a computer lab with Internet access and a printer on the first floor and a relaxing lounge and entertainment center on the second floor. Free laundry facilities are located on the lower level and each room offers cable, phone and Internet access. All residence halls have ID card readers requiring students to swipe their cards to gain entrance. At Benedictine, dining is all about choice. The Krasa Center Dining Room offers a wide array of fresh and nutritious fare at every meal. Diners can choose from sizzling, made-to-order dishes, pizzas hot from the oven or grilled specialty sandwiches with a side of crisp fries. Flexible meal plans give students the opportunity to choose the meals that fit their schedules.

Features and facilities

Benedictine University is located 25 miles outside Chicago within one of the safest areas of Illinois. This location allows students to experience both the safety and beauty of suburban life in Lisle, and the close availability of metropolitan life in Chicago. Benedictine University was founded in 1887 in Chicago as St. Procopius College and relocated to Lisle in 1901. The university were renamed Illinois Benedictine College in 1971. In response to community needs, they added graduate, doctorate and adult learner programs. They became Benedictine University in 1996. Today, the University remains committed to providing a high-quality, catholic, liberal arts education for men and women. Benedictine University ranks 37th among more than 140 schools classified as Best Universities - Master?s in the Midwest, according to the 2008 figures recently released by U.S. News and World Report. For 2008, U.S. News and World Report ranked Benedictine University as a Top School in the Midwest (and sixth in Illinois) for Master?s Universities, 13th in the Midwest (and sixth in Illinois) for Ethnic Diversity, as a Top Campus with the Most International Students (fifth in Illinois) and for Highest Proportion of Classes Under 20 Students (seventh in Illinois). The Kindlon Hall of Learning and the Birck Hall of Science bring science and technology to new levels. They house state of the art computer labs, specialized science labs, a research center and the Jurica Nature Museum. The library houses 147,000 processed volumes. The library is a member of LIBRAS, a cooperative organization of 17 college libraries in the Chicago area that makes available more than two million volumes and 4,500 periodical titles. Through the I-Share catalog (CARLI; Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois), the Library has access to approximately 25 million items from other Illinois libraries.