Residence Life

• Students can search for roommates from amongst those who have submitted housing applications, and can search for specific interests, sports affiliations, etc. Once a student finds a potential roommate, they can send them a request to match, and if the other student accepts the match, the two become a matched group and will be placed in a room together. Roommate groups can be in sets of 2 or 3, but a group of 3 can only be placed in one of our available triple rooms.
• If a student chooses not to match with any roommates, our Auto Assign process attempts to match students using the same criteria students use to search for and match with each other to find the closest match possible.

A full list of what is allowed in the residence halls can be found in the Student Handbook, and is highlighted here: What To Bring.pdf

Yes, we have suite housing available for male students in Robinson and Cook Halls, and for female students in Asher Hall

Yes!

Every room has a bed (frame and mattress) for each student, as well as a dresser, closet, or wardrobe, and a desk and desk chair. In residence halls with suite lobbies, these are furnished with couches and tables.

Each residence hall is unique in its size and layout, so some rooms are slightly larger or smaller than others. In general, however, there is a consistent amount of space per student in every room on campus.

We do not offer co-ed residential housing. All of our residence halls are single-gender.

Each residential student has 1-2 roommates, depending on whether they live in a double room or a triple room.

Each residence hall has a different capacity due to the unique design of each one, but on average, there are about 120 residents per hall at max capacity.

Suite-style halls have 3-4 double and triple rooms in an enclosed area that share a bathroom and common hallway or lounge area. Traditional-style halls have 10-12 single, double, and triple rooms sharing a larger bathroom on a hallway.

All of our residence halls and apartments use the same cost for room and board at $4,650 per semester.

Yes! We provide safety pins to allow beds to be bunked if desired. Beds should only be bunked if they can be done so safely and securely.

Open House, when members of the opposite sex are allowed to visit in a student’s room, are from 7:00 – 11:30 PM every night. Visitors are expected to check in with the Residence Life staff in the hall lobby, and must be escorted to and from room by the resident.

Bathrooms are serviced several times per week by our Housekeeping staff. They are checked for cleanliness, trash, and supplies (toilet paper, paper towels, etc.). Additional cleaning can be requested any time by contacting Residence Life staff.

In both the suite-style and community-style halls, an average of about 10 students share a bathroom that has multiple toilet stalls, shower stalls, and sinks.

Yes, every student is required to have a roommate, except for specific accommodations provided through the Accommodations Coordinator.

No, wax warmers, candles, and other appliances that generate heat are not allowed in our residence halls, as they are a fire hazard.

Furniture can be moved within rooms as long as it can be done so safely, however this furniture must remain in the room, and cannot be removed or replaced with personal furniture without express permission from Residence Life.

We have a small number of apartment housing available for selection by upperclassmen students (typically, juniors with at least 60 credit hours). We do not currently offer undergraduate apartment housing through Residence Life for students who are married or have dependents, but there may be apartments available for rent through UC’s Operations office, and we can provide contact information for them upon request.

We use the responses you submitted on your New Student Housing Application to try to match you with someone with similar interests, sports, etc. So it’s important to answer those questions carefully and honestly!

For the Fall 2024 semester, we are assigning all new students to rooms, and have disabled the self-selection process available to returning students, who are more familiar with our processes and have established relationships that make roommate matching easier for them.

New students are eligible to live in these residence halls:

• Male Suite-Style: Cook Hall, Robinson Hall, 
• Male Community-Style: Mahan Hall, Siler Hall
• Female Suite-Style: Asher Hall
• Female Community-Style: Archer Hall, Gillespie Hall

Right now, we are not offering a wait list to change halls, but we are working on it for the future! If you did not get assigned to the hall you were hoping for, we may be able to reassign you there once the semester is underway.

Generally, once housing assignments are communicated, we are not able to change them except in special circumstances, until after the second week of classes.

Maybe. Students who are registered for at least 12 credit hours, and are taking class in-person, must either apply for on-campus housing, or apply for and be approved for off-campus housing. The Off Campus Housing Request is available on the Applications tab of the Housing Portal. More information can be found in the Off-Campus Housing FAQ.