Transfer Community at Porter College
The Transfer Community is located at Porter College and situated on the west side of campus to provide easy access to Services for Transfer and Re-Entry Students (STARS) and the Academic Resources Center (ARC). This is the primary housing option for incoming transfer students (regardless of college affiliation). Incoming transfer students affiliated with any UCSC residential college are welcome here. The Transfer Community is a residence hall facility with single, double, and triple rooms.
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🏠 Housing & The Residential Colleges
One of the defining experiences for students at UC Santa Cruz is our residential college system. Year-after-year, our alumni identify their residential college experience and student group involvement as central to their core identities and connection to campus. The people you will live with in these communities, the shared experiences, your growth academically and personally, are all fostered by the close-knit, home-away-from-home structure our residential colleges provide.
These ten communities, each with their own academic themes, architecture, activities, location, and support resources, provide a neighborhood for your lived campus experience. By design, our residential colleges are not connected to any specific major. This provides a wonderful opportunity to interact, live, and learn alongside fellow banana slugs from different backgrounds, countries, and experiences.