Graduate Housing Guide

Quick Facts

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Here are some quick facts about on-campus graduate housing at MIT. For greater detail, and to find the important forms and dates, please check the links at the bottom of the page. Best of luck!

MIT has on-campus accommodation for about one-third of its graduate student population. Single students can choose from five dormitory or apartment style buildings, and students attending with their spouses and families can live in apartments in one of our two family buildings. MIT has a first class, state of the art housing system. We have one of the oldest graduate residences in the country, and one of the newest, most advanced residence buildings in North America.

Our residences have these amenities: Coin-operated laundry that can also be operated with your MIT ID card, in-room connections to the MIT Resnet computer network, and campus telephone service. All rooms, except those in Edgerton House, are furnished, but you must provide linens and study lamps. In most cases, equipment such as VCRs, vacuum cleaners, and volleyball nets, are provided for resident use and are located by the front desk of the building in which you live. The cost for local on-campus telephone service and other utilities is included in your house charge, but residents must contract privately for local and long-distance service. Monthly room charges will be included in your student account statement. Please go to

http://web.mit.edu/housing/grad/residences.html

for the most detailed and up-to-date information on MIT's residence halls.

Because on-campus housing is limited, assignments are made through an efficient allocation process. Students who have been previously registered at MIT should apply to the Continuing Allocation, and students who have never attended MIT should apply to the New Allocation. These processes open for applications in mid-March, 2009.

Our goal each year is to house as many New graduate students on campus as possible. Although this means there are more spaces for New students, New assignments are limited to one year. Fewer Continuing students are assigned, but once assigned they may remain on campus until they graduate.

It is important that you submit your application for housing prior to the published deadlines, even if you are unsure that you will be attending MIT. You can request that your application be removed from the Allocation by the deadline if your plans change.

You do not need to be accepted to MIT to apply, but please note that if you are assigned a space and later decide not to attend MIT, you must inform us immediately or else risk fines and possible rent responsibility.

Please follow the links below for detailed information on MIT's various residential communities, rates, applications, medical and special accommodations, and for general contact information and help.

Again, welcome to MIT, and please feel free to contact us for any help or guidance we can provide.

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