North Campus housing consists of four dorms for underclassmen: Beede, Mickelson, Richardson, and Olson, all of them co-ed and all offering doubles. The four-person apartments of McFadden hall serve upperclassmen and graduate students.
On South Campus, two co-ed residential complexes -- Burgess/Norton and Julian Halls -- are composed of smaller traditional dorms. The one-bedroom apartments of Redwood Court are open to sophomores with qualifying GPAs. Brookman Hall is a smaller dorm of singles for upperclassmen and grad students.
Family housing is also available.
Businessman and democratic politician James Abbott has been the president of USD since 1997. He holds a BA and a JD from the U, making him the first South Dakota alum to run the school.
Ernest Lawrence '22, Nobel-prize winning physicist
Al Neuharth '50, founder of "USA Today"
Tom Brokaw '64, broadcast journalist