Lake Forest College, located by Lake Michigan on Chicago’s North Shore, provides access to an outstanding education that gives students a significant edge on jobs after graduation.
Our flexible curriculum supports double-majors and minors, and students are also offered unparalleled internships in Chicago, excellent lab research experience, championship athletics, and study-abroad opportunities. Our outcomes are hard to match: well above 90 percent of our graduates have jobs, were in graduate school, or pursued other chosen opportunities within six months of graduation.
Lake Forest College offers:
- Great career-building internships in and around Chicago.
- “Foresters Helping Foresters:” a program in which 13,000 alumni help new graduates begin careers.
- The nation’s best location: a beautiful campus just an hour from Chicago gives students the best of both worlds.
- A flexible curriculum that allows students to pursue a double-major and minor.
Lake Forest is a close-knit, diverse community where most of our students live on campus throughout their four years. Whether you are a first-year, transfer, or international student, you will feel at home here on our safe, beautiful campus.
The campus is just a 10-minute walk to the beach or downtown Lake Forest. The local area is rich with resources for recreation, entertainment, culture, and more. Every semester starts with Forester Fair, where nearly 90 student organizations line up looking to recruit new members. There is no shortage of cultural, academic, and personal interest clubs on campus.
When you are not in the classroom or studying in Wood Lounge, you might find yourself playing pool in the Student Center, taking a short walk to the lake, or even going down to Chicago.
College is not all about books, tests, and papers. What you do outside the classroom is as critical to your future as what you study at Lake Forest. They are the purpose behind all the co-curricular activities, programs, and events offered to students here every day. So while you think you are just having fun at the basketball game, you are learning Forester Five: Engage in Community. Or that lunchtime Soup and Stories presentation by the biracial couple? That is Forester Five: Embrace Diversity.
The College’s mission statement declares that we encourage students to learn to think for themselves and states that education ennobles the individual. Our campus culture provides an atmosphere conducive to holistic learning and growth that transforms the whole person: mind, body, and spirit. We value and celebrate the transformative process that occurs in all facets of student learning.
The Lake Forest College InnovationSpaces give Foresters access to a series of custom creative spaces where they can enter virtual worlds, create 3-D prints, record audiobooks, and electronic music, construct theater stages, print photos, and explore, extend, and expand their skills through a series of experiential spaces.
The Health and Wellness Center supports the College mission to promote an exceptional student experience by providing prevention-focused, accessible, and high-quality healthcare and counseling for a diverse student population. We are dedicated to encouraging behaviors that change or eliminate health-related barriers to learning and promoting optimal physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and community wellness.
Our campus community has people from nearly every socioeconomic and cultural background. Preparing students for a global community is part of our mission, and US News & World Report calls us one of the most diverse colleges in the country. Lake Forest College students have experiences that develop understanding, respect, and appreciation for the community members' diverse cultures. Students will be prepared to live, work, and serve, respectfully and responsibly, on campus and in the global community.
The Office of Intercultural Relations supports the College’s mission to “embrace diversity” by promoting intercultural dialogue, understanding, and respect among our community's many cultural identities. The Office staff also fosters student success for traditionally underrepresented and underserved groups, including, but not limited to, students of color, first-generation students, international students, and students identifying as LGBTQ.
Celebrate, Educate, and Advocate are the three pillars of the Office of Intercultural Relations. We celebrate our culturally diverse community through our signature intercultural events and collaborations with student organizations. We educate our community about diversity, inclusion, and social justice through training, dialogue courses, and programs. We advocate for our students regarding academic and co-curricular concerns and provide opportunities for empowerment and support.
Even before classes start, our students feel the extra support our community provides when they attend First Connection, a pre-orientation program that provides an extra cushion for incoming students as they transition to life at Lake Forest College, both within and outside of the classroom.
The Office of Intercultural Relations provides ample opportunities and programs for students to learn more about the diversity that embraces them at the College. Whether it is listening to someone on campus share their experiences at Soup and Stories or tapping their feet to the music played at the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Program, our community embraces its cultural diversity.
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