Cleveland State University via Shorelight

The Shorelight Experience

From a warm airport welcome to guidance with a difficult class, every interaction affects a student’s academic journey. These key experiences ensure that students feel a part of their new community and empowered to accomplish their goals. Shorelight provides academic support, orientation, advisory services and a network of partner universities to support a students academic and career pathways and goals.

Cleveland is the second largest city in the US state of Ohio, and since 1965 has been home to collegiate institution Cleveland State University.

The university originally subsumed Fenn College which had been formed in 1923, before adding the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1969. There are ten separate Colleges within Cleveland State, ranging from Business to Engineering. As well as a large undergraduate population, the university is home to a number of graduate students, with courses devolved to each college. Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs offers training in public policy and community development, and contains no less than seventeen research centres in a wide variety of fields.

The historic building of Fenn tower has been developed into an apartment complex, and opened with the capacity to house 438 students. The Rhodes Tower is a 21-story, 363-foot skyscraper under ownership by Cleveland State, and is the second tallest educational building in the United States.