On-Campus Housing Available?
Yes
Campus Housing Capacity
4,300
Average Housing Costs
$6,700
Types of Housing Offered
- Coed dorms
- Special housing for disabled students
Freshmen Required to Live on Campus?
Yes
Undergrads Living On Campus
88%
Number of Campus-Owned Apartments
0
Best Freshman Dorms
Vanderbilt
Best Upperclassman Dorms
- Berkeley College
- Branford College
- Calhoun College
- Jonathan Edwards College
Worst Freshman Dorms
Lanman-Wright Hall (colloquially known as L-Dub)
Worst Upperclassman Dorms
Best Dorms
- Any of the newly renovated dorms
- Berkeley
- Branford
- Saybrook
What You Get
- Bed
- Desk and chair
- Dresser or wardrobe
- Ethernet access
- Local telephone service with voicemail
- Wireless Internet access (residential colleges)
Available for Rent
Minifridges
Did You Know?
- The families of the Master and Dean live in the college in designated apartments. These families often eat in the college dining hall and even keep their pets in the college!
- Master's Teas are offered by all of the residential colleges during the academic year. The college brings in an influential, famous, or just downright interesting person for students to listen to and ask questions of. Past Master's Tea guests have included Alec Baldwin, Jodie Foster, Denzel Washington, and Judy Blume, as well as world leaders in sustainability, international relations, journalism, and politics.
- Though students are randomly assigned to residential colleges, if one of their relatives was or is in a particular residential college, students can choose to be or choose not to be assigned to that college.
- Most freshmen live in the freshman dorm quad (known as "Old Campus") with other students from their particular college. These dorms are arranged into single-sex suites on single-sex floors that can accommodate four to six freshmen in the 10 buildings that make uip Old Campus, which is located directly in the center of the University. Each entrance to each hall has a different name (such as Lanman-Wright or Bingham) and can only be accessed by students who live in that entryway.
- Want more info on the residential college system? Check out Yale's explanation: www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/residential_life/index.html.