Residential Life
Quinnipiac offers many housing options for everyone to make their new space their home. Learn more about the process for selecting housing as a current student, new student or as a graduate student.
First-year students will receive information about the housing assignment process on Q-Start in the spring.
Rising juniors live on the York Hill Campus, Whitney Village, or in designated Quinnipiac-owned off-campus houses. Juniors are required to live in Quinnipiac Housing unless they have been approved for an exemption from the university's 3-Year Residency Requirement. Room selection is conducted through a lottery system.
Below are the housing selection process steps for rising junior students:
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Rising sophomores are given the opportunity to live on the Mount Carmel Campus or on the York Hill Campus. Sophomores are required to live in Quinnipiac Housing unless they have been approved for an exemption from the university's 3-Year Residency Requirement. Room selection is conducted through a lottery system.
Below are the housing selection process steps for rising sophomore students:
Sophomores have the opportunity to live in select Living-Learning Communities (LLC) where students live among groups who share the same passion, ambition, and programs. Learn more about Living-Learning Communities
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Rising seniors live on the York Hill Campus, Whitney Village, or in designated Quinnipiac-owned off-campus houses. Seniors also have the option to live off-campus because Senior Housing is neither required nor guaranteed. Room selection is conducted through a lottery system, and the Office of Housing is delighted to host interested seniors in Quinnipiac housing on a space-available basis.
Below are the housing selection process steps for rising senior students:
Explore senior housing options
Below are answers to frequently asked questions for current students who are selecting sophomore, junior or senior housing for the following academic year.
If you are logged into MyQ, you can access MyHousing at any time by using the link below:
You can also click on the MyHousing link from the Residential Life page of MyQ.
Login is required for MyHousing and MyQ.
No, all full-time undergraduate students enrolling in the fall or spring are required to live in Quinnipiac housing for their first 3 years (until the end of their sixth academic semester, not including summer or winter terms). Senior students who have already fulfilled the residency requirement may cancel their housing contract within the first 30 days.
Quinnipiac offers designated areas for students in different classes:
Explore first-year housing options
Explore sophomore housing options
Explore junior housing options
Students are required to fill individual bedrooms during the selection process (e.g. two students for a double, one student for a single).
Students can select an entire living unit and fill all of the bedrooms (based on availability at the time of their selection) or they can choose to fill only one or some of the available bedrooms in the unit.
All available bedrooms in The Crescent, The Hill, Townhouses, and The Village will be doubles.
The Complex (Sahlin, Founders, Bakke), Eastview, Westview, and Whitney Village will be a combination of singles and doubles.
All available bedrooms in Quinnipiac-owned, off-campus houses will be singles.
Once you have completed your contract on MyHousing, you can select students who have also completed the contract as roommate(s). Every student in the group must request every other person within the group as a roommate. Roommate selection will remain open throughout the room selection process, except for during the gender inclusive housing selection process.
You must be a fully matched group in order to select a room. If the group is not fully matched, you'll see a list of which roommates are not matched on MyHousing.
Once your group has selected a room, you cannot leave that group to be part of another group. Once you have selected a room, the group cannot change their room.
Each person in the roommate group must complete the following:
Review and sign the housing contract
Select the Room and Roommate Selection tab
Go to Roommates tab
Search for other students using their last name and then their first name. Click send a roommate request. (Please note: only students who have completed the housing contract will be available for selection for a roommate group. Change the term to Fall 2024 in order to see the list of eligible roommates for this selection process.)
All roommates will need to confirm pending roommate requests.
Residential Life sponsors a roommate social to assist students who are looking for roommates. Students can also use their personal networks and/or social media to seek roommates.
Each student who completed the contract prior to the deadline will receive a selection number. Selection numbers are randomly generated by a computer.
Selection numbers will be available on MyHousing on March 27, 2024 after 2 p.m. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see your number and the corresponding selection date and time. Please note that the process may take several days to complete. All of the days included in the process will be listed separately. Your start date/time will be listed once.
No. Selection numbers are personal to each student and cannot be exchanged.
The student in the group with the lowest selection number and the earliest start time should select for the group.
There is a chat feature that will be available on MyHousing while the selection process is actively taking place. Click on the Bobcat icon on MyHousing to chat with us. Our staff will also be available in person at the Office of Housing and Residential Life (behind the Bobcat Den on the Mount Carmel Campus).
Your group will only be able to view and select from spaces that your group may fit into and that you are eligible for.
Students must fill individual bedrooms, but are not required to fill an entire suite. You cannot assign one person in a double room without a roommate. If you select a room and there are vacant bedrooms remaining, other students will be able to select those remaining bedrooms. You will be able to see the names of any additional roommates on MyHousing once they have selected the space.
If there are no spaces available to accommodate for the size of your group, you can immediately change your group size by going into the Roommate Selection page to alter the size. Each person in the group must make the same changes to remain a fully matched group.
Once your group has selected a room, you will not be able to change it until after the completion of the room selection process. Please contact the Office of Housing at housing@qu.edu or 203-582-8666 in mid-April to inquire about available rooms.
Please note that it is unlikely that there will be full, empty suites after the selection process is over.
After the selection process is complete, please email Housing at housing@qu.edu with your requested bedroom assignments and copy all of the roommates involved. Accommodations cannot be made without the prior knowledge of the roommates.
Students who complete the housing contract by the deadline are guaranteed a space in university housing. Students who are not part of a group can select a single room if available. If no single rooms are available, the student will be placed into an available room at the end of the selection process.
Yes, all students are required to have a meal plan.
Students living on the Mount Carmel or York Hill Campuses will receive the default Platinum meal plan. Students who have the Platinum meal plan will have the opportunity to change to Silver, Gold or Platinum+ or Diamond meal plans.
Students who live in Whitney Village or in Quinnipiac-owned houses will receive the default Bronze meal plan, and have the opportunity to upgrade their meal plan to Bronze+, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Platinum+ or Diamond.
All students have the opportunity to make changes to their meal plan after the room selection process concludes and up until the end of the add/drop period for the affected semester.
Yes, there is free shuttle service between the Mount Carmel, York Hill and North Haven Campuses and Whitney Village.
All students who agreed to the contract and paid the housing reservation fee are included in the selection process. If you select a room and then decide to go abroad in the fall semester, the fall assignment will be canceled.
You cannot have a room assignment on campus during a semester you are abroad and the university will not hold your space while you are abroad.
The Housing Office will contact you in the fall semester to confirm your plans to return to university housing for the spring semester and you will be assigned at that time.
Yes, the Housing Office accepts housing contracts year-round and will assign students to spaces that are available at the time. Please contact housing@qu.edu or 203-582-8666 for more information.
Students may form gender inclusive groups on MyHousing through March 29. After March 29, all roommate selection will be single gender. All roommate requests must be mutual. Students of any gender can live together in gender inclusive housing.
We encourage gender inclusive groups to create groups that will fill suites. There will be enough beds to accommodate all of the students who want to participate in gender inclusive housing, but each group is not guaranteed a whole empty suite.
After March 29, spaces will be designated as gender inclusive and a separate room selection process will be created.
Students in mixed-gender (gender inclusive) groups will receive selection times for the Gender Inclusive Housing Selection process in selection number order.
Students will select rooms from the list of available spaces at the time of their selection. If there are no empty spaces that will accommodate the size of the group, students will need to reconfigure their group size in order to choose from available spaces.
To request a medical accommodation, students must submit a Medical Accommodation Form. This form must be completed by the student’s physician and submitted to the Office of Student Accessibility (OSA) by email at access@qu.edu. Requests for medical accommodations must be submitted by March 1, 2024 for consideration prior to the room selection process. Students are required to renew their accommodations with OSA each year. Please note that submission of an accommodation form does not guarantee students the building/room/room type of their choice.
Students with approved medical accommodations may be assigned prior to the room selection process.
Students who have approved medical accommodations through the Office of Student Accessibility (OSA) and who choose to be assigned by Housing during the Medical Accommodations Assignments process are permitted to pull in one roommate with them. Students with medical accommodations cannot pull in a whole group.
Medical accommodations approved by the OSA are for the designated student only and are not extended to friends. For example, if a student is approved to be in a unit with a kitchen, their friends are not automatically entitled to that same accommodation. Similarly, if a student is approved for a medical single, their friends are not automatically entitled to be in singles also. As a courtesy to students with accommodations, the Housing Office permits one friend to join the process.
Graduate students live in Whitney Village, or in designated Quinnipiac-owned off-campus houses. Housing contracts are accepted year-round and students are assigned housing on a first-come, first-served basis.
For additional information about these options or to reserve a space in graduate housing, please contact the Office of Housing at 203-582-8666 or gradhousing@qu.edu.
Once you have connected with the Housing Office, log into MyHousing
Review and sign the housing contract
We offer more than a dozen modern residence halls featuring traditional, apartment and suite-style accommodations that foster a community environment with options to ensure your living space fits your life. Every residence hall is comfortable and welcoming, and each has its own unique character and style.
Review some of our suggestions for what to pack to make your space feel like home, as well as important dates regarding move-in and hall closings.
Quinnipiac housing offers a variety of housing options, including traditional-style residence halls, as well as suites, apartments and houses. The rates include WiFi, live-in professional staff, 24-hour on-call maintenance and emergency staff, and laundry facilities, and more. Dining plans include access to dining options across our three campuses, with multiple levels available.