Student Life at the University of Connecticut

About 75 percent of University of Connecticut students live on campus. This number includes many graduate students. The university hosts many events on campus for its students throughout the year and also sponsors around 300 student organizations that are available to its students.

Some of the organizations at the University of Connecticut include frites and sororities, music groups, religious groups, athletics, political groups, cultural groups, business groups, military groups, arts groups, and community service groups. The university has a student-run newspaper called The Daily Campus. Many students participate in this newspaper and it is actually the largest student newspaper in the state of Connecticut.

UConn is ranked 13th on the 2005 Princeton Review list of schools with the most to do on campus than outside. The university tries to make the school feel less rural by providing free bus transportation to many area events and also arranging bus trips to the beaches of Boston, Manhattan, and Connecticut.

One of the biggest events at UConn is the annual spring weekend that is highlighted with a concert by renowned artists. In 2000, the university had Outkast and Third Eye Blind, Guster and Nelly in 2001, Fat Joe and Nine Days in 2002, 50 Cent and Busta Rhymes in 2003, Ludacris and Kanye West in 2004, Nas and Fabolous in 2005, OAR in 2006 , Dashboard Confessional, Reel Big Fish and The Starting Line in 2007, and Method Man, Redman, Flo-Rida and T-Pain in 2008. The University of Connecticut consistently offers some of the best concerts for its students compared to other state universities .

Greek life at UConn is not as good as in other big universities. However, since 2003, UConn has taken many steps to improve Greek life on campus and provide a quality Greek life experience to its students. They currently have a university-operated Greek home in the “Husky Village” area at the top of Horsebarn Hill. They also hired full-time staff to run the sorority and fraternity operations. There are currently 27 Greek organizations that have chapters at UConn.