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.
All eligible incoming students will sign up for Quinnipiac housing via Q-start. Students will review and sign their housing contract on MyHousing.
Please feel free to contact the Office of Housing with any questions about housing assignments, parental verification, or roommate requests. We can be reached at residentiallife@qu.edu or 203-582-8666 and will be happy to assist.
First-year students may access information about the housing contract and assignment process on Q-Start.
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If a student is under the age of 18, parental verification is required for their housing contract to be complete. Students over 18 can complete their contracts without parental verification. We recommend that all students review the contract with their parents/guardians before signing.
Students must provide an email address for their parent/guardian Emergency Contact when filling out the housing contract. The student’s parent/guardian will receive an email to this address to verify and complete the contract. Pending verification, the student’s contract is considered incomplete, and they will not be able to move forward in the housing process until the parent/guardian verification is complete.
When the student’s contract is complete, they will receive a separate email (within 24 hours), sent to their QU email address, inviting them to log into My College Roomie where they will submit the required lifestyle questionnaire and they can identify and select a roommate, if desired. We ask students to fill out the questionnaire in its entirety even if they plan to select a roommate.
If students are selecting a roommate, we recommend that they review their answers to the lifestyle questionnaire to confirm that they are a good match for each other.
Please note: In order to be assigned together, students’ roommate requests must be mutual and both roommates must have met their financial obligations and health requirements by the published deadlines.
Roommate requests will supersede Living-Learning Communities (LLCs) requests. If a student wishes to live in an LLC, they must be sure that their requested roommate has selected the same LLC. If a roommate pair selects different LLCs, they will remain a pair but they will not be placed in the LLC.
LLC requests/preferences will be due in April 2024, and roommate requests will also be due in April 2024.
Please feel free to contact the Office of Housing with any questions about housing assignments, parental verification, or roommate requests. We can be reached at residentiallife@qu.edu or 203-582-8666 and will be happy to assist.
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:
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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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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, students who entered Quinnipiac as a first-year student in the Fall of 2021 and thereafter are required to live in university housing for the first three years of their academic experience (six semesters, not including summer and winter terms).
Quinnipiac offers designated areas for students in different classes:
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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. 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.
You must be a fully matched group to select housing. 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.
Each person in the roommate group must complete the following:
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 20, 2023 after 2 p.m. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see your number and the corresponding selection date and time.
No. Selection numbers are personal to each student and cannot be exchanged.
The student in the group with the lowest selection number will have the earliest time to select for the group.
There is a chat feature that will be available on MyHousing while the selection process is actively taking place. 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 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 and Residential Life at residentiallife@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 and Residential Life at residentiallife@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 Gold meal plan. Students who have the gold meal plan will have the opportunity to change to Silver, Platinum or Platinum Plus.
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 Silver, Gold, Platinum or Platinum Plus.
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 paid the deposit and agreed to the contract 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 residentiallife@qu.edu or 203-582-8666 for more information.
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.
Sign your housing contract and pay your housing reservation fee so that you can live close to friends, close to classes, and have 24-hour support from university staff. Please review the housing contract carefully before signing as it is a legally binding agreement.
Recently admitted to Quinnipiac? New students may access information about their housing process in the summer through Q-Start.
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.