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Our Living Learning Program (LLP) is intentionally designed to include high-impact practices centered on the interests of our students: majors and areas of study as well as career goals that blend rich experiences both inside and outside of the classroom. Residence Life has collaborated with our academic partners and other student success partners to complement the classroom experience.

What is the Living Learning Program?

The University of Kentucky provides a residential academic experience commonly referred to as the Living Learning Program. The Living Learning Program is an umbrella term for all the communities within it, including living learning communities and residential colleges. In all of these communities, students can live with other students who share like-minded interests or similar academic majors.

Students who accept an invitation to an LLP will be expected to room with another student who is part of that same program. If a student wants to live with a particular roommate, that roommate must also have accepted an invitation to the same LLP and each student must have requested each other as a roommate. It is very important to the success of the LLP that students live with other students who are involved in the same experiences, classes, and activities.

Studies show that participation in an LLP can lead to:

  • Increased GPA
  • Successful and steady progress toward degree
  • An increased sense of community, even in a large university
  • Engagement with faculty, staff, and students
  • Participation in connected courses and academic experiences

In addition, students involved in the Living Learning Program are retained at higher rates, are more engaged in university life, adjust more quickly to the academic demands of college, and have FUN while doing so.

All information found on the LLP website is focused on the living learning communities for the 2025-2026 academic year. All current students should email livelearn@uky.edu with any questions.

Student headshot, Lauren Reitman, senior

I lived in the healthcare living learning program. I absolutely loved it because almost all of my friends in my classes also lived in my residence hall with me. We were able to walk to and from class together as well as study together, and then go take a break and eat dinner at The 90, and then continue studying. What was also really nice about that is we could share notes. When we were studying, it was really helpful to see someone else with a different perspective from my own personal notes.

LAUREN REITMAN
Senior

Applying to the Living Learning Program

After you have been accepted to UK, apply to an LLP by following these four steps:
  1. Submit your UK Housing and Dining Application and Contract in myUK by May 15
  2. Preference up to three LLPs within your application
  3. You will receive an LLP offer via email
  4. Accept your LLP offer in myUK by May 22
Accepting or Declining the LLP Offer

If you no longer intend to participate in an LLP, you will need to officially decline your LLP offer within the Housing portal of myUK before May 22. Once the offer has been declined, you will automatically be released from the LLP room assignment and receive a new time slot to select an appropriate space during non-LLP room selection beginning the week of June 2.  

To accept your offer follow the steps below:

  1. Visit myUK portal.
  2. Select the Student Services tab.
  3. Choose Campus Housing under the myInfo tab.
  4. Choose Undergraduate Application.
  5. Select your Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 housing application.
  6. Click on LLP Offer.

 

 

Learn More About The Living Learning Program

LLP FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Level Up in a Living Learning Program

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Audre Lorde Living Learning Program

Blazer Hall
Professor leading class in the College of Communication and Information

CI Connect Community

Jewell Hall
Creative Arts students gathered around a dance studio

Creative Arts Living Learning Program

Holmes Hall
Female student with male professor looking at machine

Engineering Living Learning Program

Pigman Hall
Student holding "Proud #Firstgen College Student" sign

First-Generation Living Learning Community

Chellgren Hall
Lewis Honors

Honors Residential Experience (HRE)

Haggin Hall
Lewis Hall
Students standing in front of Bradley Hall

International Village

Blazer Hall
Nursing students chatting during lab simulation

Interprofessional Healthcare Residential College (IHRC)

Woodland Glen V
Holmes Hall Lobby

Leadership and Service

Holmes Hall
Two female agriculture students collecting water samples from creek

Martin-Gatton CAFE Agriculture Community

Woodland Glen IV
Two female students walking in front of Boyd Hall

Transfer Year Experience

Boyd Hall
Student headshot, Briana Johnson, sophomore

I'm in the Creative Arts Living Learning Program and we're all the creatives. There's a business one. There's a health one. In the Creative Arts LLP, we have art spaces. We have writing studios, music practice rooms, dance studios. Each LLP has something that creates a very specific, unique, and fun community.

BRIANA JOHNSON
Sophomore

Looking for the Honors Residential Experience?

Are you an incoming Lewis Honors College student seeking an environment that matches your academic drive? Live among like-minded peers who are intellectually curious and prioritize their studies, well-being, and community.

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