Experience Future Forester Day
Explore campus, meet future classmates, and design a schedule around what matters most to you.
Bring us your talents and passions, your curiosity and your drive, and we'll give you the tools you need to build your dream career.
At Lake Forest College, we are dedicated to elevating students from dreamers to doers. Here, students take classes to nurture and discover their passions. Our community embraces career preparation at its finest, with access to top internships in and around the great city of Chicago. In every field of study, we will help students make opportunities to excel.
Get the best of both worlds: an idyllic lakeshore campus near the opportunity and culture of the third-largest city in the US. Lake Forest College is committed to helping students achieve their dream careers through pragmatic experience and guided preparation. With hands-on research, nationally ranked internship access, and dynamic classroom settings that foster supportive relationships between students and professors, this is the liberal arts at its finest.
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Admitted to the College? Experience Future Forester Day.
Explore campus, meet future classmates, and design a schedule around what matters most to you.
You’ll sit in on classes with your future professors, explore residence halls and campus spaces, and connect with key resources like Career Advancement, Global Engagement, and Academic Success. You’ll also meet current students and start building connections with future roommates, teammates, and friends.
Fine Arts at Lake Forest College
At Lake Forest College, the fine arts are an instrumental part of the cultural richness of campus. We encourage all students to integrate their passions into their studies and explore means of artistic expression. Practicing the fine arts enhances a Forester's connection to the wider world and helps us find our place in it.
Experience life in the city
Lake Forest College’s ACTIVATE: Summer Internship Program helps you make the most of the moment. Students reside in downtown Chicago at the College’s Chicago residential building, receive cutting-edge career preparation and mentorship, and benefit from an internship in the heart of the city.
Sustainability Across Campus
Lake Forest College integrates environmentally sustainable practices on campus and assists others in their quest to effect positive change in the world.
Ask an expert: A peek behind Lake Forest College's admissions process
When it comes to applying for college, it helps to have the power of expert knowledge at your back. Here are some commonly asked questions about our college application process, answered by someone on the inside.
Maximize your options with a double major
At Lake Forest College, students can choose up to two majors and a minor or one major and two minors. This diversified approach to education allows students to embrace all their interests and craft a personal education experience that not only tailors them to a specific path, but helps them create one. Want to study music, but also data science? Theater and neuroscience? Marketing and psychology? African American studies and creative writing? When it comes to major combinations, we think beyond limits and into possibilities. Our double majors graduate with a higher understanding of themselves, the world, and their place in it.
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Preparing college students for an AI-powered future
Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping the future. Here's how we're preparing our students to succeed in a rapidly changing world.
Make a career after college
We help students think beyond classes and homework and into their future careers. Our degree programs focus on securing jobs or graduate program placements after graduation. Whether students come to us with big ideas about their next steps or passion they need to find a place for, our Career Advancement team is ready to help them achieve great things after college.
The Class of 2025 has a job placement rate of 97%
Through our nationally recognized Career Pathways program, the Gorter Family Career Advancement Center empowers students by providing essential skills, experiences, and networks that will help them pursue meaningful careers. Chicago is home to over 400 major corporate headquarters (including 36 in the Fortune 500), countless museums, theaters, consulates, and more where students can make connections for professional success.
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