Living your best life means being yourself to the fullest — with opportunities to explore boldly and the support to shine.
Apply now Request infoLife outside class is how you learn more, lead more, find what sparks you and surprise yourself.
At Augustana and in the Quad Cities you can stretch your creativity, curiosity, endurance, intellect, empathy, spirituality, sense of adventure, and more.
There’s always something happening on campus, and ways to get involved.
The Office of Student Life and Leadership (OSL) hosts events throughout the year, and supports about 160 student organizations.
Augustana’s residential life focuses on your lived experience, year by year.
This approach helps you make connections between what you learn and how you live—and that’s good for everything from your friendships to your future career.
You’ll love this metro area along the Mississippi River. These four (or five) cities (pop. about 470,000) are great for your downtime, professional life, your need to explore, and the arts and/or sports fan in you.
Augustana College students take a break from their 15-week semester schedule to engage in a month-long period of intensive learning during January Term, or J-term. This three-and-a-half week course was added as part of the college’s transition to semesters in 2019-2020.
2023 marked a return for our music students traveling internationally, with a transformative band trip to Japan. We saw several campus improvements, including the Bergendoff and Sorensen renovations, and broke ground on the Lincoln Park tennis complex. Another in-progress improvement includes the draining and restoration of the Slough.
Art/psychology double major Aykeem Spivey '24 donated his time and talent to paint a mural at the Rock Island Center for Math and Science, in honor of a beloved teacher, Kris Hays. Hays passed away from cancer last year.
This summer, I set out to experience things in the Quad Cities. As an incoming senior with a summer internship at Visit Quad Cities, I took it upon myself to get out and see what’s going on in the place where I live.
I think food is the best way to connect people, as food possesses the ability to transcend language barriers, becoming the universal language of love.
Sharing living spaces can be an incredible opportunity for personal growth and lifelong friendships, and it can become a memorable chapter in your life. However, it also comes with its fair share of challenges.
