On-Campus Housing Available?
Yes
Campus Housing Capacity
14,699
Average Housing Costs
$7,042
Freshmen Required to Live on Campus?
Yes
Undergrads Living On Campus
47%
Number of Campus-Owned Apartments
7
Best Dorms
- Hardenburgh Hall
- New Gibbons Hall A/B
- Newell Apartments
- Quad 3
- Richardson Apartments
- Stonier Hall
Worst Dorms
- Campbell Hall
- Clothier Hall
- Clothier Hall
- Davidson Residence Halls
- Ernest Lynton North and South Towers
- Katzenbach Hall
- Mettler Hall
- Nicholas Hall
What You Get
- Bed
- Cable TV jack
- Closet or wardrobe
- Desk and chair
- Dresser
- Ethernet or broadband Internet connections
- Light
- MicroFridge
- Window coverings
Also Available
- Bunting-Cobb Math, Science, and Engineering Hall is the first residence hall in the country designated for women interested in math, science, and engineering.
- Demarest Hall has 12 programs including film, religion/spirituality, performing arts, visual arts, Italian, Spanish, French, creative writing, history/political science, philosophy, music appreciation, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies. Certain sections in Demarest are smoker friendly.
- Recovery Housing is for students recovery from a chemical dependency or who up in an addicted family. It is also for those who choose to live completely alcohol and drug free environment.
- Students live in the Sophia House if they are returning to college after being out of high school for five or more years. These students want to live on campus and meet the same challenges of returning to college, but live with people closer to their own age.
- The Discovery Houses on Livingston house students interested in exploring the following areas: Business, Heath and Medicine, Law and Leadership, and Psychology.
- The Global Village is a group of language, theme, or cultural residences offering students an opportunity to become immersed in a specific area by living together, taking a 1.5 credit course each semester, and participating in programs and activities.
- The Wellness and Substance-Free floor is a non-smoking, non-alcohol, or other drug environment that emphasizes positive health practices. Regardless of age, alcohol is never permitted in any of the residents’ rooms on the floor. In addition to the substance-free environment, floor residents will benefit by participating in a variety of wellness programming activities such as nutrition, meditation, aerobics, and safe sex.
Did You Know?
- All students get free cable from RU-TV. An interactive viewing guide can be seen on their Web site at http://rutv.rutgers.edu.
- Each month, the RAs of each dorm organize hall unity sessions-anything from cake-eating contests, Rutgers jeopardy, boys vs. girls contests, the "Roommate Game," "Couples Game," movie nights, and pizza nights.
- The Corwin graduate houses on the Douglass Campus are built like cottages. This occurred because the bank refused to lend Douglass College founder, Mabel Smith Douglass, money to build campus housing. They didn't think a women's college would succeed. Finally, they agreed to the loan as long as the halls were built like single-family houses. The bank's reasoning was that if the women's college failed, they could sell the houses and not lose money.
- On certain occasions, whether it is during midterms or finals week, parents can send students care packages, which are sent to their campus mailing addresses.