Visiting Lafayette With Your School Group or Organization
Please click here to complete a group visit request form after reading the information below about our visit policies. Our visitation coordinator will then contact you to arrange details for your visit.
Scheduling a Group Visit
Lafayette College welcomes groups for walking tours of campus. Tours are a great way to expose your students to our unique academic environment, and give them the opportunity to decide if Lafayette is the right fit for them. Please schedule your visit at least one month in advance so we can make proper preparations for your visit.
Lafayette prides itself on its small student body; however, this means we may sometimes have difficulty facilitating your request for large groups. We will do our best to accommodate your group, but we may have to decline, or work with you to find a creative solution. We expect that you will have at least one chaperone for every ten students, and we recommend that students be of high school age, preferably Juniors and/or Seniors. We do our best to provide an adequate number of Ambassadors for your group; therefore, it is necessary that we have the correct count of students who will be visiting.
What you can do on Campus
The group tour lasts approximately an hour and includes an academic building, a residence hall, the student center, a dining facility and the library, among many other elements of the Lafayette campus.
We are also happy to host an information session with your group prior to the tour. The information session typically will include specifics about the Lafayette experience, how to apply to Lafayette, and information on scholarships and financial aid. We are happy to tailor our information session to your needs.
We also invite you to eat on campus. Have students bring a packed lunch and eat outdoors at any one of our picturesque spots, or enjoy the many options our dining halls have to offer. Both dining halls are buffet style, and lunch is $8.95 a person. We also have a snack bar which is "pay as you go."
When to Visit
For group tours, we recommend scheduling a visit on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, as we typically have more student ambassadors available on those days.
Getting to Campus
Please visit our directions & map for driving directions to campus. All visitors should park in front of the Williams Center for the Arts where there is an indented curb for bus parking.
If you will be staying overnight nearby, there is information regarding local accommodations on our website. Some of these hotels do offer a discount for visitors to Lafayette's campus.
Special Needs
Please let us know if there will be any students or counselors with your group who have any special needs, ie. wheelchair, etc.
