1. Visit Campus
Come experience for yourself what it's like to be a Cobber! You can tour campus, meet current students, talk with professors, coaches, conductors, admissions staff, and so much more.
You're In!
Countdown to Move-In Day
2. File Your FAFSA
The 2025-26 FAFSA is now open.
We will build you a personalized financial aid package based on initial scholarships and your FAFSA. To complete your FAFSA, go to fafsa.gov and use code 002346.
3. Apply for Scholarships
Concordia offers a wide range of scholarships that you can apply for. See which ones might be right for you, and don't forget to ask your high school counselor about other possible scholarship opportunities.
4. Claim Your Email Account
Claim your Concordia account and create a password so you can stay up to date with all of your next steps as a Cobber. Your username and Banner ID are mailed to you after acceptance, but reach out to your admission representative if you need access to your login information.
5. Connect With Your Classmates
Meet other accepted students and start connecting on Concordia's social media. #cordmn
6. Make Your Deposit
Submitting the enrollment deposit secures your spot as a Cobber and gives you access to the remaining tasks on this list.
7. Register for Housing
Apply for your preferred residence hall and explore potential roommates. The housing application for Fall 2025 is now open. Students are able to search for and match with roommates and can begin selecting rooms on April 14.
8. Student Registration Inventory
Completing the SRI provides the Registrar's Office with the information needed to build your fall class schedule.
You will select your own First-Year Seminar (a unique first-year course taught in a wide variety of topics) by ranking your top choices. The registrar will do the rest, and your class schedule will be available later this summer!
9. Attend Summer Orientation
Your last big step toward becoming a Cobber before move-in day! Join us on June 16 or 17, 2025, for Summer Orientation where you will meet other students in your residence hall, get a sneak peek at your class schedule, tour your dorm, and so much more!
10. Submit Your Final Transcript
This one's important! We must receive an official high school transcript after you graduate. Official transcripts display your date of graduation and are sent directly from the high school to Concordia.
Failure to provide a final high school transcript will result in a hold on financial aid disbursements. Contact your high school to request yours.
11. Transfer Your College Credits
If you have taken any college-level credit in high school, you will need to request an official transcript from any colleges or universities you took classes through. This can usually be completed easily online at the school's website. AP, IB, CLEP, and other credits can also be requested online.
12. Dining Plan and Student ID
Dining Services plans are designed to make sure you are fueled up for every moment of the Cobber life. First-year students can choose from two different meal plans when they complete the final step of their housing application.
Upload a photo of yourself online for your Student ID.
13. Complete Your Health Forms
Immunization forms are mandatory prior to attending Concordia College.
14. Complete the Sexual Assault Prevention Training
This video-based program provides crucial information about consent, bystander intervention, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence, and much more. The online training course will help you better understand how important these issues are and what you can do to help make our campus safer.
15. Get Your Parking Pass
Parking permit applications for Fall 2025 will be available in late summer.
16. Move in to Your Dorm
The big day! The official start of your Cobber journey. New Cobbers will move to campus Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. Specific details will be made available during the summer.
17. Pick Up Your Textbooks
In partnership with the Cobber Bookstore, Concordia students are automatically enrolled in the Achieve Course Material Program which provides all course materials at a flat, affordable fee.
The Achieve program takes the mystery out of textbook pricing, allowing you to budget easily and receive your books automatically when you move in each semester. If you choose to opt-out of the Achieve program during the opt-out period this summer, you will be responsible for purchasing your own textbooks from another source.
18. Attend Fall Orientation
A whirlwind few days spent acclimating to campus with your Clubbies, doing service projects in the community, and rocking the legendary Cobber Beanie. Fall Orientation will take place Aug. 24-27, 2025.
Show Your Cobber Pride
Post these ready-made graphics to show your acceptance to Concordia using #cordmn.
You can use the Find Your Major tool to help narrow down a major that would be a good fit for you.
It’s perfectly okay to start college undecided about your major. In fact, it’s fairly common! Many Cobbers start down a path toward one major and end up changing directions. Building your best future sometimes includes a few twists and turns.
Here are some ways to point yourself in the right academic direction:
- Take core classes that are aligned with your interests. Exploring will help you identify what you like and what you don't. You can narrow down your options from there.
- Talk to your advisor, career coach, professors, and other students. They can help guide you toward a major that might be a good fit.
- Learn about the experiences of current Cobbers and recent graduates by reading Stories of Cobber Life.
- Take advantage of off-campus opportunities such as internships, service projects, PEAK experiences, and Breakaway trips.
Nearly one-quarter of Concordia students choose to double major and still finish in four years.
Everything on the Concordia campus is in walking distance. A walk from one end of campus to the other takes about 10-15 minutes.
From theatre performances to athletic games, Cobbers have many opportunities to be a fan or participant. The student-led Campus Events Commission (CEC) hosts free events including concerts, movies, comedians, trivia nights, and volunteer activities.
If you will be a first-year student, fill out the Student Registration Inventory. Your responses will be used by the Registrar’s Office to complete your fall course schedule.
With the goal to prepare Cobbers to Become Responsibly Engaged in the World (BREW), the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum provides students with a solid foundation in written and oral communication skills and an appreciation for other cultures.
The Core Curriculum consists of four First-Year Experience courses, two religion courses, 7-8 exploration courses, and two perspectives courses.
Once you have made your enrollment deposit, the Registrar’s Office will email you a link to the Student Registration Inventory when it opens in late spring. Take this important step at your earliest convenience. Your responses will be used by the Registrar’s Office to complete your fall course schedule.
Some research opportunities are built into the curriculum, while other undergraduate research is through independent learning experiences or during the summer with recognized leaders in their fields. Students are encouraged to present their scholarly work at national conferences, the Scholars at the Capitol annual event, and with the academic community during the Celebration of Student Scholarship in April.
Concordia has an online tool called Handshake that lets you apply and search for jobs both on and off campus.
While not an official policy, the college highly discourages students living further than 20 miles from campus to commute to campus each day. Students commuting to Concordia’s campus from great distances have generally faced increased challenges in realizing their potential for full academic success and long-term persistence toward degree completion. If you live beyond a 20-mile radius from campus and still wish to commute to campus for classes and community life, please connect with your admission representative.
Once you make your deposit, you can apply for housing. You can access the MyHousing application in CobberNet.
Then, you will first be assigned to your residence hall or learning community. These assignments start at the beginning of March and are done on a rolling basis about twice a month.
After you get your hall assignment, you’ll receive information via your Concordia email. You can also see your housing assignment in MyHousing.
You can browse the profiles of other students who have been assigned to the same hall or learning community and select your own roommate. The roommate selection period for fall semester is typically in June.
You can have a certain roommate, but you both need to match during the roommate selection process.
If you choose not to participate, Residence Life will match you with a roommate.
Final roommate and room assignments go out in mid-July.