Columbia University Housing

All current students MUST fill out an online application stating their housing intent for the following academic year.

To register for housing, please log-in to the application and click on the ‘Application’ tab in the upper left-hand corner. Begin filling out the application, following the instructions on each page carefully. At Step 5, ‘Category Declaration,’ you will need to select the appropriate housing category for which you are applying. Please be careful to select the correct category, whether you are applying as an individual or group. You may not make changes once you have selected.

There are five options:

1. General Selection - online process that allows students to choose individually or as a group into corridor-style single rooms or half-filled doubles near each other.
2. Suite Selection - allows students to choose suites and double rooms together.
3. Special Housing - includes students who will be Resident Advisors and their riders, Fraternities/Sororities, members of the Living Learning Center and Special Interest Communities.
4. Non-Columbia Housing - includes students who are studying abroad, moving off-campus, living at Barnard, etc.

1) If you are registering as a group, you must elect a group leader who will register your group. The group leader will create a group name and password and will pull you into the group. Prior to being added to the group, all group members must login to begin the Registration process, select the same Category Declaration, and give the group leader their UNIs and Screen Names, which are created during Registration.

2) After the group is created, a 6-hour wait period will commence during which any group member may pull out. Once the wait period has ended, all group members must log back into the application and complete the remaining steps through the ‘Registration Summary’ page. After all group members have confirmed through this page, the group’s registration is complete.

3) Students unable to make their Suite Selection appointment time due to study abroad, class, etc., must designate a proxy on the Registration Summary page.

Registration is not complete until the student is assigned a room and has signed the Occupancy Agreement online. Please see Failure to Sign Your Occupancy Agreement for more information.