General Housing Statistics

Approximately 4,825 graduate students live in on-campus housing, and about 1,138 are assigned to subsidized off-campus apartments this year.

Assignment Round Statistics

Statistics will be added throughout the year as the assignment rounds are completed.

 View historical graduate housing assignment statistics.

Spring Quarter 2018 Waiting List Results

All Graduate Students

All Students
	New student with Guaranteed or High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Non-matric Priority	Total
Applied for Housing	26	74	20	8	23	151
Assigned to Housing	25	38	17	7	11	98
Not Assigned to Housing	1	36	3	1	12	53

 

By Housing Category

		Single Students								Couples without Children							Students with Children
	New student with Guaranteed or High Priority		PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2ndyear Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without Priority	Non-matric Priority	Total	New student with Guaranteed or High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority		Coterms and 2ndyear Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without Priority	Non-matric Priority	Total	New student with Guaranteed or High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority		Coterms and 2ndyear Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without Priority	Non-matric Priority	Total
Applied for Housing	17		23	16	7	15	78	8	44		2	0	4	58	1	7		2	1	4	15
Assigned to Housing	17		18	15	7	10	67	7	13		1	0	0	21	1	7		1	1	1	11
Not Assigned to Housing	0		5	1	0	5	11	1	31		1	0	4	37	0	0		1	0	3	4

Assignments were offered first to single students who were living in winter-only housing contracts in Escondido South and students who were required to move due to renovations in their apartments, followed by guaranteed first-year students, high-priority first-year students, continuing students with medium priority, continuing students with low priority, continuing students who have used all of their years, and finally non-matriculated students. Within each priority assignment group, students were assigned by lottery number. 

Single Students: In the Waiting List assignment round, we were able to accommodate all the students who applied if they were willing to live in every option. The unassigned students limited their housing preferences.

Couples without Children: We were able to accommodate all the matriculated students who were willing to live in any housing option, including the Escondido Village standard studio. We were able to offer one-bedroom housing options to the first-year students and some students with medium priority.

Students with Children: We were able to assign the all of the students who were matriculated and one nonmatriculated student. The unassigned matriculated student had limited his preferences to just Oak Creek.

If you were unassigned in this round, move your application to the continuous assignments round.  We will continue to assign students as we receive additional cancellations between now and the fifth Friday of Spring Quarter.

Winter Quarter Continuous Assignments

Additional vacancies become available after the Waiting List. Here are the numbers of students assigned during the Continuous Assignment process.

	Number of Students Assigned	Number of Students Reassigned
Single Females	37	20
Single Males	41	24
Couples without Children	29	7
Students with Children	9	1

Winter Quarter 2018 Waiting List Results

Students Seeking Assignment

All Graduate Students

All Students
	New student with Guaranteed or High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Non-matric Priority	Total
Applied for Housing	63	72	49	12	16	212
Assigned to Housing	62	41	19	1	0	123
Not Assigned to Housing	1	31	30	11	16	89

 

By Housing Category

		Single Students								Couples without Children							Students with Children
	New student with Guaranteed or High Priority		PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2ndyear Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without Priority	Non-matric Priority	Total	New student with Guaranteed or High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority		Coterms and 2ndyear Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without Priority	Non-matric Priority	Total	New student with Guaranteed or High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority		Coterms and 2ndyear Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without Priority	Non-matric Priority	Total
Applied for Housing	52		35	47	11	12	157	10	30		2	0	2	44	1	7		0	1	2	11
Assigned to Housing	51		23	18	0	0	92	10	11		1	0	0	22	1	7		0	1	0	9
Not Assigned to Housing	1		12	29	11	12	65	0	19		1	0	2	22	0	0		0	0	2	2

 

Assignments were offered first to single students who were living in autumn-only housing locations (Mirrielees and Escondido South) followed by guaranteed first-year students, high-priority first-year students, continuing students with medium priority, continuing students with low priority, continuing students who have used all of their years, and finally non-matriculated students. Within each priority assignment group, students were assigned by lottery number. 

Single Students: In the Waiting List assignment round, we were able to accommodate all of the students moving from autumn-only housing locations (Mirrielees and Escondido South), the guaranteed and high priority first-year students, a little more than half of continuing students with medium priority and a small number of students with medium priority if they were willing to live in every option, including the GSB Residences and Munger. We were unable to assign and non-matriculated students who applied.

Couples without Children: We were only able to accommodate guaranteed students, high-priority students and about a third of the continuing students with medium priority. We were unable to assign the other students who applied.

Students with Children: We were able to assign the all of the students who were matriculated and were not able to offer housing to the nonmatriculated students at this time.

If you were unassigned in this round, move your application to the continuous assignments round.  We will continue to assign students as we receive additional cancellations between now and the fifth Friday of Winter Quarter. 

Autumn Quarter Continuous Assignments

Additional vacancies become available after the Waiting List. Here are the numbers of students assigned during the Continuous Assignment process.

	Number of Students Assigned	Number of Students Reassigned
Single Females	59	37
Single Males	100	29
Couples without Children	35	13
Students with Children	9	2

Autumn Quarter 2017 Waiting List Results

Students Seeking Assignment

All Graduate Students

All Students
	New student with Guaranteed or High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Total
Applied for Housing	84	91	412	88	675
Assigned to Housing	65	33	26	8	132
Not Assigned to Housing	19	58	386	80	543

By Housing Category

	Single Students					Couples without Children					Students with Children
	New student with Guaranteed or High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Total	New	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Total	New	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Total
Applied for Housing	59	36	373	78	546	21	51	38	8	118	4	4	1	2	11
Assigned to Housing	45	17	24	6	91	16	12	2	1	31	4	4	0	1	9
Not Assigned to Housing	14	19	349	72	454	5	39	36	7	87	0	0	1	1	2

 

Students Seeking Reassignment

	All Students	Single Students	Couples without Children	Students with Children
Applied for Reassignment	421	344	72	5
Reassigned	130	112	13	5
Not Reassigned	291	232	59	0

 

References to students seeking assignment apply to students who do not currently have a housing assignment for 2017-18. Students seeking reassignment refers to students who were assigned in the Lottery and are seeking a reassignment to a higher assignment preference within the same housing category and does not include student applying for a change in family status or student who renewed their contract and have applied for a reassignment.

Single Students: In the Waiting List assignment round all new incoming graduate students with high priority and continuing PhD, JD, MD & JSD students with Medium Priority, who were willing to live in any residence (including the off-campus subsidized housing), were assigned. There are still new incoming graduate waiting for housing because they either limited their choices. Some coterminal students and 2nd year Masters student with low priority were also assigned to housing. The only students without priority to housing in this round were special exemptions for students with documented medical needs.

Couples without Children: In the Waiting List assignment round all new incoming graduate students who were willing to live in any residence, including all the off-campus subsidized housing were assigned. There are still a few high priority, new incoming graduate students waiting for housing because they were selective. Some continuing PhD, JD, MD & JSD students with medium priority, who were willing to live in any residence (including the off-campus subsidized housing), were assigned. The only coterminal and continuing graduate students who were assigned to housing in this round were special exemptions for students with documented medical needs.

Students with Children: In the Waiting List assignment round all new incoming students with high priority and continuing PhD, JD, MD & JSD students with medium priority were assigned. Students with children who had low or no priority were not assigned.

​2017-18 Autumn Quarter Graduate Housing Lottery Results

Overall First-Round Lottery Statistics

In the 2017-18 Lottery, there were a total of 6,747 students who applied for Graduate Housing. After the first round, there were a total of 789 unassigned students (26 new students, 80 continuing doctoral students with medium priority, 569 continuing students with low priority, and 114 continuing students without priority years). For more details, see below.

All Graduate Students

	All Students
	New	Renewals	Medium Priority	Low Priority	No Priority	Total
Applied for Housing	2386	3070	311	806	175	6748
Assigned to Housing	2361	3070	232	233	61	5957
Not Assigned to Housing	25	---	79	573	114	791

By Housing Category

	Single Students						Couples without Children						Students with Children
	New	Renewals	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Total	New	Renewals	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Total	New	Renewals	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Total
Applied for Housing	2001	2487	198	724	132	5541	302	432	98	80	23	935	83	152	15	3	20	273
Assigned to Housing	1989	2487	171	231	33	4903	290	432	46	7	8	783	82	152	15	3	20	272
Not Assigned to Housing	12	---	27	493	99	638	12	---	52	73	15	152	1	---	0	0	0	1

Single Graduate Housing

All single students who applied for graduate housing by the deadline were assigned a random application number from 0001 to 3500. (Current students living in Single Graduate Student Housing who renewed their housing contracts were not given application numbers.) Students who requested to be in a group were given a common number.

New graduate students who apply by the first-round Lottery deadline and select that they are willing to live anywhere on campus are guaranteed housing. Munger and the GSB Residences are not automatically assigned out of the final choice “assign me anywhere on campus” due to their price. These options were only assigned to students who specifically listed them on their applications.

New Graduate Students (who will be in their first year of graduate study at Stanford):

• 307 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
• 37 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
• All of the 12 unassigned new students restricted their choices and so are no longer guaranteed. They will still maintain a high priority for assignment.

Renewals:

• 2487 single graduate students were eligible to renew their contracts for the 2017-18 and bypass the Lottery.

Continuing Graduate Students with Medium Housing Priority (PhD, JSD, MD, JD):

• 6 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
• 59 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
• All of the 27 of the unassigned students with medium priority restricted their choices.

Continuing Graduate Students with Low Housing Priority (Second Year Masters & Coterminal Students):

• 32 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
• 57 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
• 142 additional students with low housing priority were assigned.

Continuing Graduate Students without Housing Priority:

• 33 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
• No other graduate students without priority were assigned.

Couples without Children Housing

All students who applied for Couple without Children Housing by the deadline were given a random number from 0001 to 1000. (Current students living in Couple without Children Housing who renewed their housing contracts were not given application numbers.)

New Graduate Students (who will be in their first year of graduate study at Stanford):

• 13 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
• Seven of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
• All of the new couples without children who indicated that they were willing to live anywhere were assigned.
• 12 of the unassigned new couples without children listed restricted choices and are no longer guaranteed housing, but will still maintain a high priority for assignment.

Renewals:

• 432 couples without children were eligible to renew their contracts for the 2017-18 and bypass the Lottery.

Continuing Graduate Students with Medium Housing Priority (PhD, JSD, MD, JD):

• 15 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
• 31 students with medium priority were assigned, many of them were assigned because they specifically listed Munger.

Continuing Graduate Students with Low Housing Priority (PhD, JSD, MD, JD):

• Six students were assigned with exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
• One couple with low housing priority was assigned because he/she specifically listed Munger.

Continuing Graduate Students without Housing Priority:

• Eight of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
• No other students without priority were assigned.

Students with Children Housing

All students with children who applied for housing by the deadline were assigned a random application number from 0001 to 0500. (Current students living in Student with Children Housing who renewed their housing contracts were not given application numbers.)

New Graduate Students:

• All 82 of the new students with children who applied listing the Escondido Village apartments were assigned.
• One student was not assigned because he/she only listed off-campus subsidized housing.

Renewals:

• 152 students with children were eligible to renew their contracts for the 2017-18 and bypass the Lottery.

Continuing Graduate Students with Medium Housing Priority (PhD, JSD, MD, JD):

• All students with medium priority were assigned

Continuing Graduate Students with Low Housing Priority:

• All students with low priority were assigned

Continuing Graduate Students without Housing Priority:

• All students without priority were assigned

Special Priorities

Listed below are the law student priorities available for Munger Graduate Residences.                                  

Munger	Students
Priority Level 1	First-year law JD students
Priority Level 2	Second- & Third-year transfer law JD students (first year at Stanford)
Priority Level 3	LLM students
Priority Level 4	Returning resident law students (for their specific residence type)
Priority Level 5	Second- and third-year law students

 

Listed below are the law student priorities available for the GSB Residences. All of the students with priority level 1 – 3 were assigned.                                   

GSB  Residences	Students
Priority Level 1	First-year MBA
Priority Level 2	First-year MSx
Priority Level 3	First-year PhD
Priority Level 4	Second-year MSx
Priority Level 5	Second- and third-year law students
Priority Level 6	Second-year PhD