While Besant Hill has a number of day students, the majority of students live in our residence halls. Our residences feature comfortable, modern rooms that you will share with just one roommate, as well as lounge areas and a student center that lend themselves to plenty of relaxing. Students are free to leave campus on most weekends, but those who remain can take advantage of our full program of organized weekend activities - everything from beach trips to kayaking, movies, shopping mall expeditions, hikes, trips to Universal Studios, and more. Living as part of a residential community is not only great fun, but it helps develop the empathy you need to get along with all kinds of people - a skill you'll draw on time and again in all aspects of your life.

In an increasingly multicultural world, it's very important to become comfortable with diversity. There's no better way to achieve that level of comfort than by living, learning and playing alongside students from other countries. Our international students come from Cameroon, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, Mali, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine and elsewhere. At Besant Hill, they enter into a model symbiotic relationship: they study the language and culture of our nation through our English as a Second Language program, while our American students learn more about the world from them. This transfer of knowledge helps foster the kind of understanding that will make it easier for all of our students to live and work in a world that is becoming more interconnected every day.