Housing Requirements and Students on Campus (%)

College Transitions indicates housing requirements and the percentage of students living on campus at nearly 500 of the most selective colleges in the U.S.

*Data collected from institutional Common Data Set (CDS) forms for 2022-23.

Table updated November 2023.

unitID	Institution	TAG	% Living on Campus	Living on Campus Requirement
138600	Agnes Scott College		79%	Through Freshman Year
210669	Allegheny College		95%	Through Senior Year
131159	American University	AU	Not Reported	None
164465	Amherst College		97%	Through Senior Year
197869	Appalachian State University	App State	32%	Through Freshman Year
104151	Arizona State University	ASU	24%	None
100858	Auburn University		17%	None
164580	Babson College		77%	Through Freshman Year
189088	Bard College		75%	Through Sophomore Year
189097	Barnard College		74%	None
160977	Bates College		92%	Through Junior Year
223232	Baylor University		29%	Through Freshman Year
238333	Beloit College		90%	Through Junior Year
230816	Bennington College		98%	Through Senior Year
164739	Bentley University		76%	None
156295	Berea College		96%	Through Senior Year
164748	Berklee College of Music		21%	None
196079	Binghamton University		50%	Through Freshman Year
142115	Boise State University		18%	None
164924	Boston College	BC	81%	None
164988	Boston University	BU	65%	Through Freshman Year
161004	Bowdoin College		95%	Through Sophomore Year
165015	Brandeis University		78%	Through Freshman Year
230038	Brigham Young University-Provo	BYU	22%	Through Freshman Year
217156	Brown University		70%	Through Junior Year
217165	Bryant University		87%	None
211273	Bryn Mawr College		90%	Through Senior Year
211291	Bucknell University		88%	Through Senior Year
150163	Butler University		71%	Through Junior Year
110404	California Institute of Technology	Caltech	93%	Through Sophomore Year
111081	California Institute of the Arts		36%	None
110422	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	Cal Poly	40%	Through Sophomore Year
110529	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona		16%	Through Freshman Year
110556	California State University-Fresno		5%	None
110565	California State University-Fullerton		3%	None
110583	California State University-Long Beach		9%	None
110592	California State University-Los Angeles		41%	None
173258	Carleton College		96%	Through Senior Year
211440	Carnegie Mellon University	CMU	46%	Through Freshman Year
201645	Case Western Reserve University		75%	Through Sophomore Year
131283	Catholic University of America		62%	Through Junior Year
156408	Centre College		97%	Through Senior Year
230852	Champlain College		77%	None
111948	Chapman University		47%	Through Sophomore Year
112260	Claremont McKenna College	CMC	94%	Through Senior Year
165334	Clark University		68%	Through Sophomore Year
190044	Clarkson University		86%	Through Senior Year
217882	Clemson University		41%	Through Freshman Year
161086	Colby College		96%	Through Senior Year
190099	Colgate University		92%	Through Senior Year
217819	College of Charleston		28%	None
160959	College of the Atlantic		64%	Through Freshman Year
166124	College of the Holy Cross		88%	Through Sophomore Year
231624	College of William and Mary	W&M	66%	Through Sophomore Year
126678	Colorado College	CC	77%	Through Junior Year
126775	Colorado School of Mines		41%	Through Freshman Year
126818	Colorado State University	CSU	23%	Through Freshman Year
190150	Columbia University in the City of New York		88%	Through Freshman Year
128902	Connecticut College		97%	Through Senior Year
190372	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art		20%	None
153162	Cornell College		93%	Through Senior Year
190415	Cornell University		52%	Through Sophomore Year
181002	Creighton University		52%	Through Sophomore Year
190512	CUNY Bernard M Baruch College		2%	None
190594	CUNY Hunter College		1%	None
182670	Dartmouth College		85%	Through Freshman Year
198385	Davidson College		93%	Through Freshman Year
202523	Denison University		99%	Through Senior Year
144740	DePaul University		17%	None
150400	DePauw University		97%	Through Senior Year
212009	Dickinson College		99%	Through Senior Year
153269	Drake University		70%	Through Sophomore Year
184348	Drew University		82%	Through Senior Year
212054	Drexel University		21%	Through Freshman Year
198419	Duke University		82%	Through Junior Year
212106	Duquesne University		62%	None
150455	Earlham College		90%	Through Senior Year
198464	East Carolina University	ECU	24%	Through Freshman Year
133492	Eckerd College		87%	Through Freshman Year
212197	Elizabethtown College		79%	Through Senior Year
198516	Elon University		69%	Through Sophomore Year
133553	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University		48%	Through Sophomore Year
165662	Emerson College		66%	Through Junior Year
165671	Emmanuel College		77%	None
139658	Emory University		62%	Through Sophomore Year
129242	Fairfield University		76%	Through Junior Year
191126	Fashion Institute of Technology	FIT	25%	None
133669	Florida Atlantic University	FAU	22%	None
133881	Florida Institute of Technology		56%	Through Sophomore Year
133951	Florida International University	FIU	7%	None
134079	Florida Southern College		85%	Through Senior Year
134097	Florida State University	FSU	20%	None
191241	Fordham University		47%	None
212577	Franklin and Marshall College	F&M	98%	Through Senior Year
441982	Franklin W Olin College of Engineering		99%	Through Senior Year
218070	Furman University		96%	Through Senior Year
232186	George Mason University	GMU	21%	Through Freshman Year
131469	George Washington University	GWU	62%	Through Junior Year
131496	Georgetown University		77%	Through Junior Year
139861	Georgia College & State University		37%	Through Freshman Year
139755	Georgia Institute of Technology	Georgia Tech	44%	None
139940	Georgia State University		18%	None
212674	Gettysburg College		95%	Through Senior Year
235316	Gonzaga University		53%	Through Sophomore Year
162654	Goucher College		77%	Through Senior Year
153384	Grinnell College		88%	Through Sophomore Year
212805	Grove City College		94%	Through Senior Year
173647	Gustavus Adolphus College		92%	Through Senior Year
191515	Hamilton College		100%	Through Senior Year
166018	Hampshire College		90%	Through Senior Year
150756	Hanover College		93%	Through Senior Year
166027	Harvard University		97%	Through Freshman Year
115409	Harvey Mudd College	HMC	98%	Through Freshman Year
212911	Haverford College		96%	Through Freshman Year
107080	Hendrix College		89%	Through Senior Year
170286	Hillsdale College		65%	Through Sophomore Year
191630	Hobart William Smith Colleges		87%	Through Junior Year
191649	Hofstra University		41%	None
170301	Hope College		99%	Through Junior Year
131520	Howard University	HU	54%	Through Sophomore Year
145725	Illinois Institute of Technology	IIT	44%	Through Sophomore Year
145646	Illinois Wesleyan University		79%	Through Junior Year
151351	Indiana University-Bloomington	IUB	34%	Through Freshman Year
153603	Iowa State University		31%	None
191968	Ithaca College		80%	Through Junior Year
232423	James Madison University	JMU	32%	Through Freshman Year
162928	Johns Hopkins University	JHU	37%	Through Sophomore Year
213251	Juniata College		94%	Through Senior Year
170532	Kalamazoo College		64%	Through Sophomore Year
155399	Kansas State University		24%	Through Freshman Year
203535	Kenyon College		99%	Through Senior Year
169983	Kettering University		Not Reported	Through Freshman Year
146427	Knox College		85%	Through Senior Year
213385	Lafayette College		93%	Through Senior Year
146481	Lake Forest College		69%	Through Junior Year
239017	Lawrence University		95%	Through Senior Year
192323	Le Moyne College		54%	Through Senior Year
213543	Lehigh University		61%	Through Sophomore Year
209056	Lewis & Clark College		68%	Through Sophomore Year
159391	Louisiana State University	LSU	30%	Through Freshman Year
117946	Loyola Marymount University	LMU	49%	None
146719	Loyola University Chicago	LUC	42%	Through Sophomore Year
163046	Loyola University Maryland		79%	None
173902	Macalester College		58%	Through Sophomore Year
161299	Maine Maritime Academy		58%	Through Junior Year
192819	Marist College		62%	None
239105	Marquette University		41%	Through Sophomore Year
166683	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MIT	93%	Through Freshman Year
140447	Mercer University		78%	Through Junior Year
204024	Miami University-Oxford		77%	Through Sophomore Year
171100	Michigan State University	MSU	43%	Through Sophomore Year
171128	Michigan Technological University		48%	Through Freshman Year
230959	Middlebury College		95%	Through Junior Year
239318	Milwaukee School of Engineering	MSOE	48%	Through Sophomore Year
176080	Mississippi State University		32%	Through Freshman Year
178411	Missouri University of Science and Technology	MUST	54%	Through Sophomore Year
180461	Montana State University		33%	Through Freshman Year
140553	Morehouse College		58%	Through Junior Year
166939	Mount Holyoke College	MHC	95%	Through Senior Year
214175	Muhlenberg College		89%	Through Senior Year
262129	New College of Florida		72%	Through Senior Year
185828	New Jersey Institute of Technology	NJIT	24%	None
187967	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	NMIT	61%	None
193900	New York University	NYU	36%	None
199193	North Carolina State University	NC State	36%	Through Freshman Year
167358	Northeastern University		47%	Through Sophomore Year
147767	Northwestern University		55%	Through Sophomore Year
204501	Oberlin College		Not Reported	Through Senior Year
120254	Occidental College	Oxy	80%	Through Junior Year
204796	Ohio State University	OSU	32%	Through Sophomore Year
204857	Ohio University	OU	49%	Through Sophomore Year
204909	Ohio Wesleyan University		82%	Through Senior Year
209542	Oregon State University	OSU	17%	Through Freshman Year
214777	Pennsylvania State University	PSU; Penn State	34%	Through Freshman Year
121150	Pepperdine University		63%	Through Sophomore Year
121257	Pitzer College		75%	Through Junior Year
121345	Pomona College		97%	Through Sophomore Year
194578	Pratt Institute-Main		49%	None
186131	Princeton University		95%	Through Sophomore Year
217402	Providence College		67%	Through Junior Year
243780	Purdue University-Main Campus		42%	None
130226	Quinnipiac University		63%	Through Junior Year
186201	Ramapo College of New Jersey		40%	None
209922	Reed College		70%	Through Sophomore Year
194824	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	RPI	56%	Through Sophomore Year
217493	Rhode Island School of Design	RISD	64%	Through Sophomore Year
221351	Rhodes College		71%	Through Junior Year
227757	Rice University		64%	None
195003	Rochester Institute of Technology	RIT	49%	Through Freshman Year
136950	Rollins College		70%	Through Junior Year
152318	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	RHIT	60%	Through Freshman Year
184782	Rowan University		35%	Through Sophomore Year
186371	Rutgers University-Camden		15%	None
186380	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	RU	40%	None
186399	Rutgers University-Newark		14%	None
183239	Saint Anselm College		88%	None
179159	Saint Louis University	SLU	53%	Through Sophomore Year
231059	Saint Michael's College		94%	Through Senior Year
122409	San Diego State University	SDSU	26%	Through Sophomore Year
122755	San Jose State University	SJSU	15%	None
122931	Santa Clara University	SCU	53%	Through Sophomore Year
195304	Sarah Lawrence College	SLC	76%	Through Freshman Year
123165	Scripps College		97%	Through Freshman Year
236595	Seattle University		54%	Through Sophomore Year
195474	Siena College		76%	Through Senior Year
167783	Simmons University		42%	Through Freshman Year
195526	Skidmore College		87%	Through Freshman Year
167835	Smith College		96%	Through Senior Year
399911	Soka University of America		100%	Through Senior Year
228246	Southern Methodist University	SMU	52%	Through Sophomore Year
228343	Southwestern University		73%	Through Sophomore Year
195216	St Lawrence University	SLU	99%	Through Senior Year
174844	St Olaf College		93%	Through Senior Year
163976	St. John's College		79%	Through Sophomore Year
245652	St. John's College		90%	Through Senior Year
163912	St. Mary's College of Maryland		82%	None
243744	Stanford University		94%	Through Freshman Year
196176	State University of New York at New Paltz		46%	Through Freshman Year
137546	Stetson University		65%	Through Junior Year
186867	Stevens Institute of Technology		48%	None
167996	Stonehill College		84%	None
196097	Stony Brook University		50%	None
196219	SUNY at Purchase College		70%	None
196167	SUNY College at Geneseo		54%	Through Sophomore Year
196103	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry		33%	Through Freshman Year
216287	Swarthmore College		96%	Through Freshman Year
196413	Syracuse University		53%	Through Sophomore Year
216339	Temple University		19%	None
228723	Texas A & M University-College Station		22%	None
228875	Texas Christian University	TCU	50%	Through Sophomore Year
229115	Texas Tech University		23%	Through Freshman Year
187134	The College of New Jersey	TCNJ	46%	None
206589	The College of Wooster		98%	Through Senior Year
193654	The New School		26%	Through Freshman Year
100751	The University of Alabama		28%	Through Freshman Year
180489	The University of Montana		63%	Through Freshman Year
137847	The University of Tampa		43%	None
221759	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	UTK	31%	Through Freshman Year
228778	The University of Texas at Austin	UT Austin	18%	None
228787	The University of Texas at Dallas	UTD; UT Dallas	23%	None
221519	The University of the South		99%	Through Senior Year
124292	Thomas Aquinas College		100%	Through Senior Year
216366	Thomas Jefferson University		32%	Through Sophomore Year
164076	Towson University		30%	None
130590	Trinity College		82%	Through Freshman Year
229267	Trinity University		77%	Through Junior Year
178615	Truman State University		42%	Through Freshman Year
168148	Tufts University		61%	Through Sophomore Year
160755	Tulane University of Louisiana		54%	Through Sophomore Year
196866	Union College		92%	Through Senior Year
128328	United States Air Force Academy	USAFA	100%	Through Senior Year
130624	United States Coast Guard Academy	USCGA	100%	Through Senior Year
197027	United States Merchant Marine Academy		100%	Through Senior Year
197036	United States Military Academy	USMA	100%	Through Senior Year
164155	United States Naval Academy		100%	Through Senior Year
196088	University at Buffalo		30%	None
100663	University of Alabama at Birmingham	UAB	25%	Through Freshman Year
104179	University of Arizona	UA	22%	None
106397	University of Arkansas		29%	Through Freshman Year
110635	University of California-Berkeley	UCB: UC Berkeley	27%	None
110644	University of California-Davis	UCD; UC Davis	15%	None
110653	University of California-Irvine	UCI; UC Irvine	44%	None
110662	University of California-Los Angeles	UCLA	58%	None
445188	University of California-Merced	UC Merced	49%	None
110671	University of California-Riverside	UCR; UC Riverside	35%	None
110680	University of California-San Diego	UCSD; UC San Diego	39%	None
110705	University of California-Santa Barbara	UCSB; UC Santa Barbara	38%	None
110714	University of California-Santa Cruz	UCSC; UC Santa Cruz	51%	None
132903	University of Central Florida	UCF	13%	None
144050	University of Chicago	UChicago	61%	Through Sophomore Year
201885	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus		25%	Through Freshman Year
126614	University of Colorado Boulder		27%	Through Freshman Year
129020	University of Connecticut	UConn	64%	Through Freshman Year
224323	University of Dallas		66%	Through Junior Year
130943	University of Delaware	UD	40%	Through Freshman Year
127060	University of Denver	UD	51%	Through Sophomore Year
134130	University of Florida	UF	22%	None
139959	University of Georgia	UGA	35%	Through Freshman Year
225511	University of Houston		18%	None
142285	University of Idaho		43%	Through Freshman Year
145600	University of Illinois at Chicago	UIC	13%	None
145637	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	UIUC	50%	Through Freshman Year
153658	University of Iowa		28%	None
155317	University of Kansas	KU	25%	None
157085	University of Kentucky	UK	33%	None
157289	University of Louisville		35%	Through Sophomore Year
161253	University of Maine		38%	Through Freshman Year
232681	University of Mary Washington		55%	Through Sophomore Year
163268	University of Maryland-Baltimore County	UMBC	36%	None
163286	University of Maryland-College Park	UMD	38%	None
166629	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	UMass Amherst	58%	Through Freshman Year
166638	University of Massachusetts-Boston	UMass Boston	9%	None
166513	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	UMass Lowell	36%	None
135726	University of Miami	UM	37%	Through Freshman Year
170976	University of Michigan	UMich	27%	None
174233	University of Minnesota-Duluth		35%	None
174251	University of Minnesota-Morris		50%	None
174066	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	UMN	23%	None
176017	University of Mississippi	Ole Miss	31%	Through Freshman Year
178396	University of Missouri-Columbia	Mizzou	28%	Through Freshman Year
181464	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	UNL	50%	Through Freshman Year
182281	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	UNLV	3%	Through Freshman Year
182290	University of Nevada-Reno	UNR	18%	None
183044	University of New Hampshire	UNH	56%	Through Sophomore Year
199111	University of North Carolina at Asheville	UNC Asheville	48%	Through Freshman Year
199120	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	UNC Chapel Hill	44%	Through Freshman Year
199139	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	UNCC; UNC Charlotte	25%	None
199148	University of North Carolina at Greensboro	UNCG; UNC Greensboro	36%	None
199218	University of North Carolina Wilmington	UNC Wilmington	34%	Through Sophomore Year
152080	University of Notre Dame	UND	79%	Through Junior Year
207500	University of Oklahoma	OU	32%	Through Freshman Year
209551	University of Oregon		29%	Through Freshman Year
215062	University of Pennsylvania	UPenn	60%	Through Sophomore Year
215293	University of Pittsburgh		42%	None
209825	University of Portland		46%	Through Sophomore Year
236328	University of Puget Sound		64%	Through Sophomore Year
121691	University of Redlands		60%	None
217484	University of Rhode Island	URI	39%	None
233374	University of Richmond		86%	None
195030	University of Rochester		73%	Through Sophomore Year
122436	University of San Diego	USD	46%	Through Sophomore Year
122612	University of San Francisco	USF	45%	None
215929	University of Scranton		60%	Through Sophomore Year
218663	University of South Carolina	USC	31%	Through Freshman Year
137351	University of South Florida	USF	16%	None
123961	University of Southern California	USC	36%	None
174914	University of St Thomas		48%	Through Sophomore Year
231174	University of Vermont	UVM	63%	Through Sophomore Year
234076	University of Virginia	UVA	38%	Through Freshman Year
377555	University of Washington-Bothell Campus		3%	None
236948	University of Washington-Seattle	UW	29%	None
240444	University of Wisconsin-Madison	UW-Madison	26%	None
216524	Ursinus College		92%	Through Senior Year
221999	Vanderbilt University	Vandy	84%	Through Senior Year
197133	Vassar College		96%	Through Senior Year
216597	Villanova University		83%	Through Sophomore Year
234030	Virginia Commonwealth University	VCU	27%	None
233921	Virginia Tech	Virginia Tech	33%	Through Freshman Year
152673	Wabash College		99%	Through Senior Year
199847	Wake Forest University		75%	Through Junior Year
234207	Washington and Lee University	W&L; WLU	75%	Through Junior Year
164216	Washington College		85%	Through Sophomore Year
236939	Washington State University	WSU	23%	Through Freshman Year
179867	Washington University in St Louis	WashU	70%	Through Freshman Year
168218	Wellesley College		91%	Through Freshman Year
168227	Wentworth Institute of Technology		50%	Through Sophomore Year
130697	Wesleyan University		99%	Through Senior Year
216764	West Chester University of Pennsylvania		38%	None
238032	West Virginia University	WVU	Not Reported	Through Freshman Year
125727	Westmont College		96%	Through Senior Year
149781	Wheaton College (IL)		90%	Through Senior Year
168281	Wheaton College (MA)		90%	Through Freshman Year
237057	Whitman College		72%	Through Sophomore Year
125763	Whittier College		52%	None
210401	Willamette University		67%	Through Sophomore Year
168342	Williams College		93%	Through Junior Year
218973	Wofford College		91%	Through Freshman Year
168421	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	WPI	53%	Through Freshman Year
130794	Yale University		80%	Through Sophomore Year
197708	Yeshiva University	YU	70%	Through Freshman Year

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