Student Life
Our Approach to Student Housing
Instead of campus dorms, New Aberdeen utilizes community housing to maximize affordability and virtue-formation. We believe that your independence better equips you for adulthood by teaching you how to budget and prepare meals for yourself, maintain your own space, and begin assuming many duties that you will encounter when you enter the workforce and maintain your own home.
The college matches students together or with host families to build life skills. Most students live with other students or with local host families affiliated with our church network. New Aberdeen is minutes from housing in nearby downtown Harrisburg.
Our internal studies show that students typically save between $5,000 and $6,000 per year on room and board in comparison to students who live in dorms and cafeterias.
Harrisburg, North Carolina
Student Activities
Debate Club
Students hone with their rhetorical skills and compete in the International Public Debate Association (IPDA).
Swing Dance Society
New Aberdeen students participated in swing dance and contradance gatherings hosted at a nearby church.
Hymn Sing
Students gather monthly for a hymn sing and fellowship with local like-minded young adults.
Sea Breeze Society
The society leads gatherings to read and discuss old works of the Great Tradition, as C.S. Lewis reminds us to “keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds.”
Historic Tours
New Aberdeen leads regular excursions to experience historic and cultural sites, including the historic Biltmore Estate here in the mountains of North Carolina.
And more!
New Aberdeen is a new and growing community: the college is excited to support students as they create culture in everything from sports to social clubs.