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STUDENT LIFE

Where you can be you

Oglethorpe University is a small university in the big city of Atlanta, giving you the best of both worlds. 

Explore OU and learn how you can make a life, make a living and make a difference. 

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31
countries represented among our student body
21%
of students are athletes
10%
of students are active in Greek life
100 acres
Oglethorpe is on 100 wooded acres in the heart of the city
100 yards
walking distance to shopping and dining at Town Brookhaven
OU dining hall is full during a dinner.

Housing and Dining

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Sports

Sophia hangs a photo on the gallery wall.

The Arts

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Atlanta

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Fraternity and Sorority Life

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Student Groups

Turner Lynch Campus Center

The Turner Lynch Campus Center (TLCC) is the center of campus life at Oglethorpe. Here, you’ll find:

  • Game room
  • Bookstore
  • Dining hall
  • Stormy Brews (featuring Dancing Goats coffee)
  • Petey’s Pantry
  • Career Development (and Petey’s Closet)
  • Intercultural Center

60+ Clubs and Organizations

Oglethorpe students are a diverse, unconventional, and fascinating bunch, and their interests and activities are just as varied. Fortunately, our location in Atlanta and our vibrant campus culture make it easy to explore the world from every angle.

It’s easy to find your place at Oglethorpe.

 
Events Calendar
Carillon Ceremony
Since 2005 graduating seniors get the opportunity to enter a “secret door” in Lupton Hall and climb up to the Lupton Bell Tower. They sign a historical carillon registry book and ring one of the bells by hand. The OU 42-bell carillon was the first cast bronze bell carillon in Georgia. More about the Carillon Ceremony.
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Liberal Arts and Sciences Symposium
This annual event brings together students and faculty members in a daylong celebration of exemplary analytic and creative work by Oglethorpe students. On the day of the event, classes are canceled so that all students can attend the symposium.
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Oglethorpe Day
The second Wednesday in February is a festive occasion honoring our university’s namesake, General Oglethorpe. The day kicks off with the Petrels of Fire Race; then a bagpipe player leads the audience from the quad to the Conant Performing Arts Center to hear from guest speakers.
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QuadFest and Stomp the Lawn
Held respectively in September and April, these events celebrate the beginning and ending of the school year. Both feature a live band, games, carnival rides, food and fun! Sponsored by the SGA Programming Board.
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Boar’s Head
Every December, the Oglethorpe community comes together for an event inspired by the armorial crest of General James Edward Oglethorpe and the holiday tradition of the same name held at Oxford University, Oglethorpe’s alma mater. It features a theatrical reading of the Boar’s Head story, a holiday concert and the lighting of the holiday tree.
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Crypt of Civilization Time Capsule
Situated behind a stainless steel door in Hearst Hall, the Crypt was identified by the Guinness Book of World Records as “the first successful attempt to bury a record of this culture for any future inhabitants….” Sealed in 1940, the Crypt is not to be opened until 8113 AD and contains a “museum” of representative culture from the times of the Egyptians through the mid-twentieth century.
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Buried Elephant
In November 1941, the Ringling Brothers Circus were performing in Atlanta, when eighteen circus elephants were poisoned by arsenic. An enterprising professor in the medical school had one of the elephants brought to campus for use in his comparative anatomy class. When the animal began to decay it was buried, and the exact whereabouts of its remains are unknown.
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Battle of Bloody Marsh
Every fall, a team of students and a team of faculty and staff members meet to do battle… via tug-of-war.
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