General Housing Statistics

Approximately 4,986 graduate students live in on-campus housing, and about 500 will be assigned to subsidized off-campus apartments this year.

Assignment Round Statistics

Overall First-Round Lottery Statistics

(Statistics will be added throughout the year as the assignment rounds are completed.) View 2014-15 year statistics.

Autumn Quarter Waiting List Results

Students Seeking Assignment

Students Seeking Reassignment

References to students seeking assignment apply to students who do not currently have a housing assignment for 2015-16. Students seeking reassignment refers to students who were assigned in the Lottery and are seeking a reassignment to a higher assignment preference within the same housing category.

Single Students: In the Waiting List assignment round most new incoming graduate students, who were willing to live in any residence (including the off-campus subsidized housing), were assigned. There are still a number of guaranteed and high priority new incoming graduate waiting for housing. Most of the first year students still waiting either limited their choices or applied after the first round deadline. The only coterminal and continuing graduate students who were assigned to housing in this round were special exemptions for students with documented medical needs or law students with a priority to Munger. About 18% of the students seeking reassignments received a higher preference.

Couples without Children: In the Waiting List assignment round a number of the new incoming graduate students who were willing to live in any residence, including all the off-campus subsidized housing were assigned. There are still a number of guaranteed and high priority new incoming graduate student waiting for housing. The only coterminal and continuing graduate students who were assigned to housing in this round were special exemptions for students with documented medical needs or law students with a priority to Munger. About 39% of the students seeking reassignments received a higher preference.

Students with Children: In the Waiting List assignment round all new graduate students were assigned. One-third of continuing students were also assigned.  About 33% of the students seeking reassignments received a higher preference.

2015-16 Graduate Housing Lottery

In the 2015-16 Lottery there were a total of 6,344 students who applied for Graduate Housing. That represents an increase of 353 applications over the previous year, offsetting the gains we achieved through the construction of new graduate housing in the Kennedy Graduate Residences, which opened last year. After the first round there were 747 new guaranteed students who were not assigned. These students are still guaranteed housing by the first day of classes, if they are willing to live anywhere. The guaranteed students will have priority to any additional vacancies on campus as well as 500 subsidized off-campus spaces that will be offered in the July Waiting List round. There were also 196 coterminal students, 440 continuing graduate students with housing priority years remaining, and 31 continuing graduate students without priority years who were are not guaranteed and have not been offered housing. For more details, see below.

Single Graduate Housing

All single students who applied for graduate housing by the deadline were assigned a random application number from 0001 to 3500. (Current students living in Single Graduate Student Housing who renewed their housing contracts were not given application numbers.) Students who requested to be in a group were given a common number.
New graduate students who apply by the first-round Lottery deadline and select that they are willing to live anywhere on campus are guaranteed housing. Munger, Schwab, and Escondido Village Premium Studios in the Kennedy Graduate Residences are not automatically assigned out of the final choice “assign me anywhere on campus” due to their price. These options were only assigned to students who specifically listed them on their applications.

New Graduate Students: 

• 153 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the Schwab Residential Center.
• 15 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
• 622 of the unassigned new students are still guaranteed because they indicated that they were willing to live anywhere.
• 42 of the unassigned new students listed restricted choices and so are no longer guaranteed. They will still maintain a high priority for assignment.

Coterminal Students: 

• 40 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.

Continuing Graduate Students: 

• 15 of the assignments to continuing single students were made to law students with the Munger priority.
• 11 students were Graduate School of Business assignments to the Schwab Residential Center.
• 134 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
   

Special Priorities:

Listed below are the law student priorities available for Munger Graduate Residences.

Couples without Children Housing

All students who applied for Couple without Children Housing by the deadline were given a random number from 0001 to 1000. (Current students living in Couple without Children Housing who renewed their housing contracts were not given application numbers.)

New Graduate Students:

• Eight of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.

Continuing Graduate Students:

•  73 of the unassigned new couples without children are still guaranteed because they indicated that they were willing to live anywhere. • Ten of the unassigned new couples without children listed restricted choices and are no longer guaranteed housing, but will still maintain a high priority for assignment. 
•  23 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
•  Five of the assignments to continuing single students were made to law students with the Munger priority.

Students with Children Housing

All students with children who applied for housing by the deadline were assigned a random application number from 0001 to 0500. (Current students living in Student with Children Housing who renewed their housing contracts were not given application numbers.)

New Graduate Students:

• All 79 of the new students with children were assigned.

Continuing Graduate Students:

• All of the students with children who applied with assignment priority years and had a returning resident priority were assigned.
• Students with assignment priority years remaining who did not have a returning resident priority, were not assigned.
• None of the students without housing priority were assigned, unless they had a medical exemption.