Housing and Costs

Approximately 53 percent of all matriculated graduate students at Stanford live in University housing and over one half (55 percent) are new graduate students.

Graduate Residences

New graduate students have a priority for assignment over continuing graduate students, and are guaranteed housing if they apply by the Spring lottery deadline and are willing to live in any residence. Since housing is a scarce resource, students should not expect to be offered housing for the duration of their studies. Rent rates are typically lower than the surrounding community and residents have the advantage of comfortable accommodations within proximity to academic departments, libraries, and research facilities. The goals for graduate residences at Stanford are to provide an environment conducive to studying, services, and resources that facilitate academic achievement, and a pluralistic community in which programs address individual needs and promote social interaction.

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Housing Options

A number of campus housing options are available to graduate students:

• Dormitory rooms
• Apartments
• Cooperative houses

Single students and students who are attending Stanford without their spouse, partner, or children are eligible for assignment to Single Student Housing.

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Couple Housing

Couple housing is available to students who are married and to students who have a same-sex or opposite-sex domestic partner. At Stanford University, a domestic partnership is defined as an established, long-term partnership with an exclusive mutual commitment in which the partners share the necessities of life and ongoing responsibility for their common welfare.

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Students With Children

Students who have legally dependent children living with them and who are married, in a domestic partnership, or are single parents are eligible for assignment to Student with Children Housing. University housing is not provided for extended families, including the parents and siblings of students, nor childcare providers.

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Housing Costs

Complete information about housing assignment policies, procedures and deadlines is available on the Housing Assignment Services home page at http://housing.stanford.edu.

Costs: Below is a sample of living expense, including housing:

2009-10 Average Graduate Student Expense Budget
	Single On-campus
	Per Quarter	2009-10
Living Costs
Rent	$3,085	$9,255
Food	$1,881	$5,643
Personal	$876	$2,628
Local transportation	$307	$921
Books/supplies	$605	$1,815
Medical insurance (estimated)	$800	$2,400
Campus Health Service Fee	$167	$501
Total Living Allowance	$7,721	$23,163
Tuition (11-18 units)*	$12,460	$37,380
Tuition & Living Total	$20,181	$60,543

*Engineering Tuition—Tuition for the School of Engineering is $13,280 for one quarter and $39,840 for three quarters.

Additional information about housing assignment policies, procedures and deadlines is available on the Housing Assignment Services home page at http://housing.stanford.edu.

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