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

Sample housing rates for the 2006-07 academic year are available at http://housing.stanford.edu/tour/gradtour/rateschart.html.

Costs: Below is a sample of living expenses for the 2007-08 academic year, including housing:

2007-08 Average Graduate Student Expenses Budget
	Single On-campus
	9 months	12 months
Living Costs
Books/supplies	$1,638	$2,184
Rent, food, personal	$16,212	$21,616
Local transportation	$789	$1,052
Medical insurance	$2,266	$2,888
Subtotal	$20,805	$27,740
Tuition (Regular Graduate)*	$34,800	$46,400
Total	$55,605	$74,140

*Three quarters of regular graduate tuition is $34,800; graduate School of Engineering, $37,110; M.B.A. (first year), $45,921; M.D., $41,619. Tuition for two semesters of programs in the School of Law is $39,500. The regular 8-, 9-, or 10-unit rate is $22,710; for graduate Engineering it is $24,120.

The Community Housing Office assists students in locating rooms, apartments, shared rentals, or houses in the Stanford area. Estimated monthly rents for off-campus unfurnished apartments (excluding utilities, transportation, furniture, and Internet charges) range from $810 for studio apartments to $1,490 for two-bedroom apartments. Estimated monthly rents for houses are $2,220 for two bedroom houses and $2,620 for three bedrooms.

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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