Graduate and Family Housing Options
Graduate students attending the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ can choose from a wide range of apartment styles with various accommodations. We attempt to match your budget, space needs, wishes with respect to privacy or a more social setting, as well as your need to be close to a particular campus area with one of the University's graduate housing complexes.
Each of the graduate housing complexes are conveniently located and within a short walk, bike ride, or drive from the River Campus, Strong Hospital, and Eastman Dental. The University’s public transportation system (bus) services each graduate housing complex frequently.
Additionally, each complex is staffed with three graduate community assistants (GCAs). Our GCAs meet and greet new residents, develop programs and activities for the community, and serve as a general resource to all graduate students living in the residential area.
Graduate Housing Lottery
The Graduate Housing Lottery is the system we use to assign limited on-campus graduate student housing fairly when demand is higher than the number of available rooms or apartments.
The process:
- Graduate students apply for housing by the lottery deadline (always the first Wednesday of May)
- Applicants are randomly assigned a lottery number
- Waitlists are created for each location and style of apartment in lottery number order
- Housing offers are made on a rolling basis as apartments become available based on position on the waitlist, availability of housing, desired move-in dates
- Students are only contacted when housing that meets the criteria provided on their application becomes available
- Students are notified on average, 30-45 days in advance of an apartment being available (ie: for a desired August 1 move-in date, students should expect to hear from our office by late June/early July).
- Student can increase their chances only by having a wide range of move-in dates and be open to all housing preferences