Alfred University
- Off-Campus Housing

Off Campus

There is a lot of off campus living avaliable, cost is high but students are willing to pay.

Off-Campus Living

As an RA, and a student with a housing grant, I've never really felt the urge to live off campus, until my senior year. But all my friends live off campus. And unlike a lot of cities and other schools, our off-campus living is relatively cheap. I mean Alfred is a very small town, a lot of people have never even heard of us, but the people in the town rent out houses to students. So you can have 3 or more people sometimes living in a house, which brings down the cost of living even more, which is really good.

Off Campus Housing

The housing policy keeps changing, and it's not always for the better. They now require students to live on campus for 3 years, making the senior year very competitive for living off campus. Some juniors are able to live off campus but they're not notified until June/July, when all seniors have already secured their housing, making very few options for juniors. Many students also therefore do not have the option of looking at available places because they're not local. The on campus housing is in decent shape and are at decent locations, but its really difficult to host night events because publi safety is very strict about noise complaints. Off campus is much easier for late night parties.