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Campus Life
Located in peaceful Sioux Center, Dordt University plays a vital role in the rich community life of Northwest Iowa. Sioux Center is 45 miles north of Sioux City, Iowa, and 55 miles southeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Dordt's campus is a hub of exciting activities year round—so getting plugged in is easy.
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Home Sweet Dordt
From comfy dorms to modern classrooms, our historic campus has all the facilities you'd expect of a private university—and more. Check out this video tour or explore our campus map to see what makes Dordt a great place to study, work, and live.
Campus Map
Get Involved (It's Easy)
You'll never be bored at Dordt. Student activities are an important part of our campus culture. Dordt Student Activities (DSA) is a group of students and staff who work to initiate, plan, organize, facilitate, and implement campus-wide activities throughout the entire academic year.
We offer dozens of clubs to help you find friends with common interests. Students who enjoy singing or playing an instrument are invited to join the campus praise and worship teams and bands. We want all students to enjoy their hobbies (or find new ones) and share their gifts while at Dordt.
Just don't forget to study. 😉
What Are You Into?
Art is everywhere on Dordt's campus. It can be found outside—in sculptures like the Gift and the burning bush—and inside, in the Campus Center art gallery and in the galleries in the art department. Take an art class and you'll get to explore your creative side.
Check out our
news
to see which artist's work is being featured in the Campus Center art gallery right now.
Dordt offers students many opportunities to be involved. Students may choose from a variety of pre-professional, service-oriented, athletic, or activity clubs. Clubs are student-led and vary in their organization, mission, and personality. There's bound to be a club that fits you!
Current clubs include:
Actuarial Science Club
Ag Club ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers)
Architecture Club
ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers)
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Assistance Animal Club
Association of Christian Public Servants (Criminal Justice Club)
Astronomy
Boxing Club
College Republicans
Communication Club
D'Arte Club
Defender Capital Management
Defender Clay Dusters
The Diamond
Dordt University Zoology Union (DU-ZU)
D'Write Fellowship Club
Education Club
Freedom Club
FLAME (Future Leaders and Missional Entrepreneurs)
Gaming Guild
Grafted
Hymn Sing Club
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Improv Club
Jiu-Jitsu Club
MOSAIC Club
PLIA (Putting Love Into Action)
Pre-Health Professions Club
Pre-Veterinary Club
Psychology Club
Science and Faith Club
Scientists' Pre-Graduate School Club
Social Work Club
SWB (Students Without Borders) Club
Swing Dance Club
Table Tennis Club
Tennis Club
Theatre Club
WISE (Women in Science and Engineering)
Women in Business Club
With more than eight
music
ensembles on campus, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in music at Dordt. Our Wind Symphony, Chamber Orchestra, and Concert Choir tour extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Can't find the ensemble for you? Create your own small group or band with your peers.
Check out our
events
to see find out when upcoming choral and instrumental concerts are scheduled.
As a residential campus, Dordt students value the campus community experience. Dordt Student Activities coordinates student events that promote community growth and provide fun and creative activities for all students. DSA provides a variety of events and activities for students to participate in each month.
Some of the events that Dordt Student Activities has sponsored over the past year include:
Air Band
Outdoor Movie Night
Fall Fest
Christmas Party
Table Tennis Tournaments
Talent Extravaganza (TX)
NC/DC
Spring Formal
Rook Tournaments
Glow Skate
Dordt's theatre arts department produces plays and musicals in the fall and spring, performing them in the Te Paske Theatre and Dordt's black box Fourth Avenue Theatre. You can act, design costumes, do hair and makeup, build sets, work with lights and sound, stage manage, and more.
Check out our box office to see what play we are producing next and purchase tickets to productions.
Utilize your artistic gifts to serve our community in corporate worship. Joining a worship ensemble enables you to grow your musical gifts as we gather together to praise God. The production arts team works to create a beautiful aesthetic, drawing together audio, video, lighting, and stage design.
Find out more about the Sioux Center community!
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See You On Campus
There's never a dull moment on our campus. Explore upcoming activities, sporting events, and news stories to stay plugged-in.
Apr
23
Athletics
Women's
Softball
4/23 4:00 PM Dordt University Softball vs Dakota Wesleyan
Apr
23
Athletics
Men's
Track
4/23 4:30 PM Dordt University Men's Track and Field at Drake Relays - Drake Stadium
Apr
23
Athletics
Women's
Track
4/23 4:30 PM Dordt University Women's Track and Field at Drake Relays - Drake Stadium
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