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Quick Stats

On-Campus Housing Available? Yes
Campus Housing Capacity 1,206
Average Housing Costs $6,278
Undergrads Living On Campus 86%
Number of Dormitories 17
Number of Campus-Owned Apartments 1
Best Dorms
  • Bacon
  • Bennett
  • Dulaney
  • Hooper
  • Robinson
  • Sondheim
  • Welsh Hall (the T)
Worst Dorms
  • Lewis
  • Probst

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All students are guaranteed on-campus housing, and there are a variety of housing options available. The Office of Community Living (residence life) places first-year students into housing based on their housing request forms. The office tries to meet the needs and desires of each student’s housing requests, as well as matches students with a compatible roommate. Returning students select housing through a room-draw process based on seniority and a lottery assignment.

The quality of each dorm depends on what is important to you: comfort, convenience, character, or community. While Stimson is the most rundown, it is usually the friendliest and most open community—it's like living in a huge house where everyone knows and hangs out with one another rather than secluding themselves. Mary Fisher is a bit old and musty, but its convenient central location makes it popular among students. Sondheim House is the cleanest and most comfortable, but students have to pledge not to smoke or drink within the house. All of the dorms are livable, but if comfort and air conditioning are your priority, stick to the newer dorms.

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Campus Housing at Goucher College

akadentz

'12

Mass Communications and Media

3.8
B+

Dorms Pretty Good

Freshmen dorms aren't actually that bad. Yes, some have cinderblock walls, but if you get into Sondheim, the substance free house, you get massive rooms and private bathrooms. Several of the best houses are female only. Guys want to get into an apartment or a suite in the T, although a single in Mary Fisher is also a good call.

Nov 04, 2011

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Campus Housing at Goucher College

Myboilollipop11

'12

Dance

3.8
B+

Dorms Get Better as You Get Older

Housing is pretty good on campus. Underclassmen dorms (especially as of late) are not great because they are made of cinder block and many are forced triples. The Oldest building, Mary Fisher, is mostly for upperclassmen and is spacious (especially in terms of closet space), but no air conditioning. Welsh Hall and Sondheim are probably the nicest two dorms, but that is also because they are the newest of the dorms. However, the community feeling lacks in these dorms.

Oct 25, 2011

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Campus Housing at Goucher College

kafla002

'13

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2.7
C+

$ $ $

I just moved off campus this year, and I am so happy I made that choice. Housing is very expensive, and so is the meal plan ($16 per meal? I can go farther with those dollars at the grocery store). I'm saving a cool $6,000 a year by living in the city.

Best option: Mary Fisher Hall. Plead allergies so you can get a single and move there as soon as you can (Bacon is the closest to the Academic Quad, but it has a very tiny kitchen). Or make quick friends and snare a very nice apartment in the T.

Worst option: Tuttle. Last year, it was like living in a crack house. Lots of vandalism and a strong campus security presence. Frolicher and Winslow are generally considered the freshman slums of the campus.

The process is generally easy until you have to deal with Community Living, which soon becomes a black hole of suck.

Oct 21, 2011

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Random Dance Party The great thing about Goucher is that you can have lots of fun just hanging out on campus. This picture is from what we call "The Piano Room," which is a study room that has a piano in it for any student to practice on. That room can turn into a hang out room at nights, and during orientation my friends and I decided to have a dance party in the room.
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Facts

Room Types
  • Apartment – Two or three bedrooms, private bathroom, living area, and kitchen
  • Double – Double-occupancy room; shares bathroom with floor
  • Quad – Two double-occupancy rooms with a common living area; shares bathroom with entire floor
  • Single – Single-occupancy room; shares bathroom with floor
  • Suite – Two double-occupancy rooms, or two, three, or four single-occupancy rooms with a common living area and private bathroom
  • Triple – Triple-occupancy room; shares bathroom with floor
Bed Types
  • Bunkable beds
  • Lofts
  • Twin extra-long
What You Get
  • Bed
  • Cable TV and phone jacks
  • Closet
  • Desk and chair
  • Dresser with mirror
  • Internet connection
  • Window coverings

Available for Rent

MicroFridges (a microwave combined with a minifridge and freezer)

Cleaning Service

Facilities Management Services (FMS) cleans public areas only, including shared bathrooms, hallways, stairwells, kitchens, and lounge areas. These public areas are cleaned every weekday.

Did You Know?

The sprinkler system really works! In 2004, a student accidentally set off a sprinkler in Jeffery, setting off sprinklers in neighboring rooms and flooding the hall. Students stayed at the Sheraton across from campus (Goucher footed the bill)
until repair and clean-up crews could restore
the dormitory.

Student housing is decided during room draw. In this process, the residential life office randomly assigns each student a number that determines their place in line for choosing a room.

Until the fall of 2005, smoking was allowed in a few designated dormitories. Because of safety concerns, however, smoking is now prohibited in all on-campus buildings, and those smoking outside must stand at least 25 feet away from the buildings.

DormitoriesWhat's This?

Alcock (Froelicher Hall)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 58
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge.

Bacon (Mary Fisher Hall)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 55
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: No, women only
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge.

Bennett (Heubeck Hall)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 66
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: No, women only
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles, triples, quads
Special Features: Air-conditioning, kitchen, laundry, TV lounge.

Conner (Stimson Hall)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 44
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge.

Dulaney (Mary Fisher Hall)
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 52
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles, apartments
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge.

Gallagher (Froelicher Hall)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 58
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge. Third floor reserved for first-year women.

Gamble (Heubeck Hall)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 52
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles, apartments
Special Features: Air-conditioning, kitchen, laundry, TV lounge.

Hooper (Mary Fisher Hall)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 49
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge.

Jeffrey (Heubeck Hall)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 63
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Special Features: Air-conditioning, kitchen, laundry, TV lounge.

Lewis (Stimson Hall)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 54
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge. Third floor reserved for first-year students.

New Residence Hall (The T)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 194
Bathrooms: Private
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, suites, apartments
Special Features: Air-conditioning, kitchen, laundry, TV lounge.

Probst (Stimson Hall)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 67
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge.

Robinson (Heubeck Hall)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 46
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Special Features: Air-conditioning, kitchen, language house, laundry, TV lounge.

Sondheim House (Wellness House)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 64
Bathrooms: Private
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Suites
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, substance-free living, TV lounge.

Tuttle (Froelicher Hall)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 61
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles, apartments
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge. Third floor reserved for first-year students.

Wagner (Stimson Hall)
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 65
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge. First and third floors are quiet living.

Winslow (Stimson Hall)
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 63
Bathrooms: Communal
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Singles, doubles, apartments
Special Features: Kitchen, laundry, TV lounge. Third floor reserved for first-year students.

Campus-Owned ApartmentsWhat's This?

Dulaney Valley Apartments
Floors: 24 units
Number of Units: 60
Bathrooms: Private
Coed: Yes, by apartment
Residents: Freshmen, upperclassmen
Room Types: Apartments
Special Features: Community-service-oriented housing. Units have kitchens with dishwashers, microwaves.

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