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Apply for Graduate Housing
Everything you need to know to find your home at Stanford.
How to Apply
Enter the annual Housing Assignment Lottery to indicate preferences and apply.
Eligibility, Priority and Guarantee
Matriculated and non-matriculated students are assigned based on new student status, degree program and years in housing.
Housing Assignments
An automated assignment round is held each quarter beginning with an exemption round for student staff and students requiring medical accommodations.
Shared Single Graduate Housing
Many of the on-campus options are shared apartments in which you have your own bedroom and share common space with one, two or three other students.
Escondido Village Graduate Residences
Stanford University's newest graduate residence located in the heart of Escondido Village.
Key Housing Information
Housing Rates
Graduate housing charges usually fall below local area rents and include furnishings, basic utilities — water, heat, electricity, garbage, sewer and coinless/cardless laundry — in the housing rate.
Contract Lengths
The length of your contract is based on your academic program, category of housing, location of your housing assignment and when you are assigned.
Changes After You Are Assigned
You may cancel your housing or apply for reassignment after you have been assigned.
Residence Agreement
The residence agreement governs occupancy, conduct and expectations for living in your apartment.
Assignment Statistics
Statistics will be added throughout the year as the assignment rounds are completed.
Key Dates
Housing Application Deadlines, 2020-21
Quarter |
Assignment Round |
Application Deadline |
Assignment Announced |
| Autumn | Medical accommodations | Now-May 30 to register with OAE and apply for housing | June 12 |
| First round Lottery and renewal assignments | June 10 | June 29 | |
| Second round assignments | July 7 | We will begin announcing assignments on July 20 | |
| Rolling assignments | July 8 – October 23 | August 3 – October 23 | |
| Winter | First round assignments | October 23 (apply as early as possible beginning May 24) | November 14 |
| Rolling assignments | October 24 – February 5 | November 16 to February 5 | |
| Spring | First round assignments | February 5, 2021 (apply as early as possible beginning May 24) | February 27 |
| Rolling assignments | February 6 – April 30 | March 1 to April 30 |
Submit your 2020-21 applications for all quarters in Axess beginning on May 24, 2020.
Move in Date Options 2020-21
Quarter |
Date |
Student |
| Autumn | August 7, 2020 | Students with school-age children |
| August 20, 2020 | Pre-clinical MD & MAPA students | |
| August 21, 2020 | Early arrival option for all students | |
| August 24, 2020 | First-year law students | |
| August 28, 2020 | Early arrival option for all students | |
| September 4, 2020 | Early arrival option for all students | |
| September 11, 2020 | All students | |
| Winter | December 31, 2020 | All students |
| Spring | March 27, 2021 | All students |
| Summer | June 19, 2021 | All students |
Check in at your Housing Front Desk
Graduate Community
Explore the Gateway for New Graduate Students. Find the resources you need to begin your graduate career at Stanford. Check your school and department websites for important information, too.
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