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Comparable Schools'
Campus Housing Grades:
Quick StatsUndergrads Living on Campus
20 %
Number of Campus Owned Apartments
3
Worst Dorms
- James S. White Hall
- Peabody Hall
Freshmen Required to Live on Campus
No
College Prowler Take
The freshmen dorms at Temple allow people to meet each other with communal showers and weekly activities. The Kardon building is an apartment-style dorm that sits back away from campus. 1300 offers single, double, and quadruple suites and apartments. They have a fitness room, game room, computer lab, mini-food store, and TV and study lounges. This dorm is located near classrooms and the Student Rec Center. Temple Towers offers the same features. Park Mall is conveniently located near a hair salon, 7-Eleven, and classroom halls. Park Mall is clean with good amenities, but there is no apartment-style housing available. The least favorable dorms are Peabody (a.k.a. “the projects”) because it lacks air-conditioning and is run down, and White Hall (or “Killer Hall”) because outside of this dorm is where most “incidents” occur; you can take a guess by their aliases on why they are the least popular. It’s a big problem that not all students recieve housing. However, Temple is trying to build more dorms. Make sure your housing is in order—especially any financial aid—before you leave for the semester. Follow the letters Temple sends out, so you won’t be one of those people sleeping on your friend’s sofa. If you become one of the unfortunate, there are apartments nearby Temple. But don’t forget to keep up with your housing status in subsequent years—there are still students left struggling to find a place to live even after freshman year. Students Speak Out
Love your school more than free food? Hate your school more than term papers?
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Anonymous says:  |
The freshman dorms are like living...
The freshman dorms are like living in a mansion with 400 bedrooms. It was the best. |
collidingstars says: Temple University 2010 Other |
The suites are the best
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The dorms are honestly so much fun. Living off campus, you don't get to sit outside of Johnson and Hardwick, smoking cigarettes and chilling with random people for hours. That's the place to be. While Johnson and Hardwick and Peabody are the worst (I don't know about Peabody, but the elevators in J&H break all the time), they're the most convenient, and as freshman, people hang out outside them all the time. White Hall and 1940 are also convenient and definitely a lot nicer. The suites are really awesome and all of my friends who lived in them loved them. I only know a few people who lived in The Edge or Temple Towers, and while they loved living there because they were so nice, they really hated the fact that they were so far from the other freshman dorms and wished they could've lived elsewhere.
Campus Housing: November 11, 2009
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dianatweiss says: Temple University 2016 Business |
The freshmen dorms are such a...
The freshmen dorms are such a blast if you have the right attitude and an exceptional roommate. I was lucky and got to live with a neat young lady who is a lot of fun to be around. You may not be so lucky like another one of my good friends who was stuck with an emotionally depressed person. Just try to be optimistic with your new roommate and get to know them before you judge them. You might be able to help them out like my friend did for hers!
Campus Housing: March 19, 2009
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Anonymous says: |
JHP (Johnson/Hardwick/Peabody) is...
JHP (Johnson/Hardwick/Peabody) is old, but freshman year makes it fun. The rest of the dorms are cool, just spread out so that living in a certain dorm becomes discouraging to going to the other sides of campus sometimes. It just sucks that only freshmen are guaranteed housing now. |
Anonymous says: |
I loved living on campus. The...
I loved living on campus. The dorms were wonderful, as long as you weren’t beefin’ with everybody on campus. |
FactsWhat You Get
- Bed
- Cable TV
- Closet
- Desk and chair
- Dresser
- Ethernet access
- Free campus calls
- Free utilities
Room Types
- 2- and 4-person suites
- 2- to 6-person apartments
- Single and double dorms
Bed Types
- Twin regulars, option of having bunk beds
Also Available
- Graduate Student Housing: Triangle Complex and Podiatry Housing Complex apartments
- Kardon Hall: an old textile factory transformed into upscale loft-style apartments in partnership with Philadelphia Management Corporation
- Special-Interest Housing: Alliance for Minority Participation and Liberal Arts and Community Service theme housing (Park), Music and Dance and School of Communications and Theater theme housing (Peabody, Johnson, Hartwick), Architecture/Engineering, Quiet Study, and Deciding Students theme housing (White), Living-Learning Community for University Honors Freshmen and Sophomores (1300), Wellness/Alcohol Free and Quiet theme housing (Temple Towers)
Cleaning Service
Staff cleans communal baths daily
Dormitories
1300
Floors: 5
Number of Occupants: 1,044
Bathrooms: Private by unit
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen and upperclassmen
Room Types: Suites for freshmen (doubles), apartments for upperclassmen (singles, doubles)
24-hour security, air conditioning, computer lab, convenience store, dining facilities, fireplace, fitness room, laundry facilities, TV lounge. Meal plan required for freshmen. Home to University Honors Living-Learning Community.
1940 Park Mall
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 472
Bathrooms: Private by suite
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Suites (doubles)
24-hour security, aerobics room, air conditioning, basic cable TV, bike storage, computer lab, fitness center, laundry facilities, recreation rooms, social lounges with kitchenettes. Meal plan required. Home to Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP), Liberal Arts, and Community Service theme housing.
Hardwick Hall
Floors: 11
Number of Occupants: 454
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Computer lab, convenience store, dining facilities, floor lounges, snack bar, study lounges, weight room. Meal plan required. Home to Music and Dance and School of Communications and Theater (SCAT) theme housing.
James S. White Hall
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 588
Bathrooms: Private by suite
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen and upperclassmen
Room Types: Suites (doubles)
24-hour security, aerobic conditioning room, air conditioning, community kitchenettes with microwaves, computer lab, convenience store/snack bar, enclosed garden patio, grassy courtyard, social lounges, study lounges, weight/fitness room. Meal plan required. Home to Architecture/Engineering, Quiet/Study, and Deciding Students theme housing.
Johnson Hall
Floors: 11
Number of Occupants: 466
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Computer lab, convenience store, dining facilities, floor lounges, snack bar, study lounges, weight room. Meal plan required. Home to Music and Dance and School of Communications and Theater (SCAT) theme housing.
Peabody Hall
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 287
Bathrooms: Shared
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Doubles
Computer lab, convenience store, dining facilities, floor lounges, snack bar, study lounges, weight room. Meal plan required. Home to Music and Dance and School of Communications and Theater (SCAT) theme housing.
Campus Owned Apartments
Elmira Jeffries Building
24-hour security, air conditioning, fitness room, laundry facilities, living/dining rooms and full kitchen in each unit, parking, social and study lounges.
Floors: 4
Number of Units: 140 students
Bathrooms: Private by unit
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Apartments (doubles)
Temple Towers
Air conditioning, balconies in many units, computer lab, game room, heated in-ground pool, living/dining rooms and full kitchen in each unit, multipurpose lounge, study lounge.
Meal plan optional. Home to Wellness/Alcohol Free and Quiet theme housing.
Floors: 6 in each of two buildings
Number of Units: 630 students
Bathrooms: Private by unit
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Apartments (doubles, triples)
The Edge at North
Floors: 5
Bathrooms: Private by unit
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Apartments (singles, doubles)
Fitness center, free tanning, keyless entry, kitchenettes in each unit, laundry facilities, retail shopping, wireless Internet lounge.
Utilities included; meal plan optional.
Did You Know?Students have protested on Broad Street for better housing. For students that can’t get housing on campus, Temple sponsors housing at Presidential City, Best Western, and the Regency. They all have shuttles to take you from home to campus, but this can be seen as an inconvenience.
The odds of a student getting housing are all based on a lottery system that Temple has. Pay your deposit, receive a letter with a lottery number, attend the bidding, and you either have your first pick or are left searching for an apartment and
a roommate.
Best bet for getting housing is paying your housing deposit on time; it is a $250 fee that is due the first week after
spring break.
You can be a Resident Advisor; though it is a very competitive position, those who are chosen speak very high of it and have the bonus of living on campus for free. It’s also good to help the freshmen adjust to campus life. A negative aspect is all the time you spend in the dorms. You are there for your residents at any cause, which can be seen as a good or bad thing. Keep in mind that it is a job, and you have to be committed to it like any other responsibility. Out-of-state students are not given preferential treatment for housing! As many times as administration responded to this dilemma, incoming students still find it hard to swallow. As it may be, all students who apply for housing are giving an equal chance at the “lottery.” Out-of-state students feel they should have an edge because they can’t commute. In-state (especially in-city) students feel that if they don’t want to live at home, they shouldn’t have to.
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