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From classrooms and labs to studios, performance spaces, dining halls, residence halls, and hangout spots, our campus is designed to support every part of the student experience. Whether you're here to study, create, compete, or connect, you'll find spaces that match your goals and reflect the vibrant community that makes our campus unique. Wherever your interests take you, our facilities are here to help you learn, live, and feel at home throughout your college journey.

The offices does facilities management of the entire physical plant of all buildings and grounds; including maintenance requests, custodial services, event setups, Gustavus name tags, and sustainability efforts.

Explore our award-winning dining options in the Marketplace, Courtyard Café, STEAMery. Dining spaces are available in the Evelyn Young Dining Hall and other Banquet Rooms.

Our Town is a play about the people of a small town in New Hampshire called Grover’s Corners.

Gustavus transfer admission is free and holistic. Test‑optional applicants with ≥2.4 GPA are accepted with up to 64 credits, with merit scholarships up to $40,000 per year. Learn more here.

Minnesota high school juniors and seniors can apply for Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) to earn no-cost college credit toward their high school degree, full or part-time.

Majors and learn from great works from history in the original ancient language, analyzing and comparing ancient societies directly from the source. More on the major, including sample courses, here. 

Matt Panciera is an associate professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. He truly enjoys teaching the languages - all levels of Greek and Latin - in addition to a wide range of classical studies courses; everything from Greek tragedy to Roman history. His research focuses on the incredible treasure trove of information found in the Pompeian graffiti scratched into the walls of the ancient city by its beautifully ordinary inhabitants before it was buried under the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. He is extremely grateful to have been awarded on three occasions a NEH Summer Seminar for K-12 teachers where they, together with a team of distinguished scholars, explored the topic of of Roman daily life as seen in the Roman novelist Petronius and the archaeological and epigraphical remains of Pompeii. He has also worked on Roman funerary inscriptions including the epitaph of the unforgettable freedwoman, Allia Potestas.

Matt feels fortunate to have been hired on four different occasions by the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and he is a passionate advocate for teaching and learning on site. He always finds himself experiencing ideas, making connections, and asking questions that would never occur to him without the inspiration of standing in the place where the ancient Greeks and Romans once lived their lives. He is happy to teach a class where the students "nerd out" and dive deep into the Greeks and Romans for their own sake. But ultimately he believes, both for himself and his students, the greatest benefit of spending time with the Greeks and Romans is how much we learn about ourselves and what we want to make of our own world.  

If pressed, on most days he would say his favorite classical authors to read in the original language are Homer and Ovid. He recognizes the beauty of Greek and the genius of so much that came to fruition in Athens in the 5th century BCE—the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, the birth of western philosophy, tragedy (Sophocles is his favorite)—but he is more at home in Latin and loves the way that reading Petronius and Pompeian graffiti feels like looking through a window directly at the ancient Romans. His favorite classical building is the Pantheon in Rome and his favorite site is Segesta in Sicily.

Outside of work he loves to cook for his family, visit the Boundary Waters, root for all the Boston teams (but also the Vikings), play golf, and exercise.
  

The official hub for the Gustavus varsity men's golf team. Discover information about the Gustavus golf team, including the team’s roster, schedule, statistics, coaching staff, competition results, and news. The team practices on campus at the Drenttel Golf Facility and and their home course is the Le Sueur Country Club.

The official hub for the Gustavus varsity women's golf team. Discover information about the Gustavus golf team, including the team’s roster, schedule, statistics, coaching staff, competition results, and news. The team practices on campus at the Drenttel Golf Facility and and their home course is the Le Sueur Country Club.

When you tour nationally and internationally with a Gustavus music group, you develop a rich artistic and cultural understanding of music in performance. You build deep relationships, trust in yourself and others, and resilience. A distinct feature of Gustavus tours is the professor-led Signature Experience companion course which makes space to reflect on the transferable skills gained through travel and disciplined performance. In the past decade, ensembles have performed internationally in Singapore, Malaysia, Norway, Sweden, Spain, France, Italy, Ireland, and Scotland.