Graduate Housing Statistics 2019-20

General Housing Statistics Spring Quarter 2020 Waiting List Results Winter Quarter 2020 Continuous Assignments Winter Quarter 2020 Waiting List Autumn Quarter 2019 Continuous Assignments Autumn Quarter 2019 Waiting List 2019-20 Autumn Quarter Graduate Housing Lottery Results

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 2020 Waiting List Results

Students Seeking Assignment

All Graduate Students

All Students
	Autumn Only Transfers within Housing Priority	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	4	29	63	21	3	21	141
Assigned to Housing	4	28	34	18	1	10	95
Not Assigned to Housing	0	1	29	3	2	11	46

By Housing Category

Single Students
	Autumn Only Transfers within Housing Priority	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	4	12	21	18	2	14	71
Assigned to Housing	4	12	20	18	1	8	63
Not Assigned to Housing	0	0	1	0	1	6	8
Couples without 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	Non-matric priority	Total
Applied for Housing		17	36	3	1	1	58
Assigned to Housing		16	8	0	0	0	24
Not Assigned to Housing		1	28	3	1	1	34
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	Non-matric priority	Total
Applied for Housing		0	6	0	0	6	12
Assigned to Housing		0	6	0	0	2	8
Not Assigned to Housing		0	0	0	0	4	4

Assignments were offered first to single students who were living in quarterly contracts Escondido Village & Escondido South low rises 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. Many of the unassigned students will be assigned in the spring quarter continuous assignments.

Single Students: In the Waiting List assignment round, we were able to accommodate all students who were willing to live in any residence. Only students who limited their preferences were not assigned.

Couples without Children: We were only able to accommodate all of high-priority students and a few continuing students. We were unable to assign the other students who applied in this initial round.

Students with Children: We were able to assign all of the matriculated students who who were willing to live in any residence. Only non-matriculated students were not assigned in this initial round.

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 until the fifth Friday of Spring Quarter.

Winter Quarter 2020 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	33	19
Single Males	42	29
Couples without Children	28	3
Students with Children	4	0

Winter Quarter 2020 Waiting List Results

Students Seeking Assignment

All Graduate Students

All Students
	Autumn Only Transfers within Housing Priority	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	45	42	67	58	12	18	242
Assigned to Housing	44	36	15	8	0	0	103
Not Assigned to Housing	1	6	52	50	12	18	139

By Housing Category

Single Students
	Autumn Only Transfers within Housing Priority	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	45	21	18	50	11	9	154
Assigned to Housing	44	20	9	8	0	0	81
Not Assigned to Housing	1	1	9	42	11	9	73
Couples without 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	Non-matric priority	Total
Applied for Housing		16	44	8	1	2	71
Assigned to Housing		11	1	0	0	0	12
Not Assigned to Housing		5	43	8	1	2	59
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	Non-matric priority	Total
Applied for Housing		5	5	0	0	7	17
Assigned to Housing		5	5	0	0	0	10
Not Assigned to Housing		0	0	0	0	7	8

Assignments were offered first to single students who were living in autumn-only housing locations (Escondido Village lowrises, Escondido South and Mirrielees) 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. Many of the unassigned students will be assigned in the winter quarter continuous assignments.

Single Students: In the Waiting List assignment round, we were able to accommodate all on-campus transfers and new students who were willing to live in any residence. Only new students who limited their preferences were not assigned. We were able to assign some students who had medium and low priority if they were willing to live anywhere or had GSB priority to the GSB Residences, law priority to Munger or were required to live on campus for a medical accommodation.

Couples without Children: We were only able to accommodate some of high-priority students and one continuing student. We were unable to assign the other students who applied.

Students with Children: We were able to assign all of the matriculated students who who were willing to live in any residence. Only non-matriculated students or students who limited their preferences were not assigned.

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 until the fifth Friday of Winter Quarter.

Autumn Quarter 2019 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	82	48
Single Males	110	36
Couples without Children	37	8
Students with Children	7	0

Autumn Quarter 2019 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	99	74	515	84	772
Assigned to Housing	76	44	32	9	161
Not Assigned to Housing	23	30	483	75	611

By Housing Category

Single 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	73	44	472	75	664
Assigned to Housing	59	29	20	7	115
Not Assigned to Housing	14	15	452	68	549
Couples without 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
Applied for Housing	20	21	43	8	92
Assigned to Housing	11	6	12	1	30
Not Assigned to Housing	9	15	31	7	62
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
Applied for Housing	6	9	0	1	11
Assigned to Housing	6	9	0	1	11
Not Assigned to Housing	0	0	0	0	0

Students Seeking Reassignment

All Students
Applied for Reassignment	Reassigned	Not Reassigned
435	172	263
Single Students
Applied for Reassignment	Reassigned	Not Reassigned
339	139	200
Couples without Children
Applied for Reassignment	Reassigned	Not Reassigned
90	30	60
Students with Children
Applied for Reassignment	Reassigned	Not Reassigned
6	3	3

References to students seeking assignment apply to students who do not currently have a housing assignment for 2019-20. 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 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.

Students with Children: In the Waiting List assignment round all students with children were assigned.

2019-20 Autumn Quarter Graduate Housing Lottery Results

Overall First-Round Lottery Statistics

In the 2019-20 Lottery, there were a total of 6,942 students who applied for Graduate Housing. After the first round, there were a total of 912 unassigned students (33 new students, 58 continuing doctoral students with medium priority, 710 continuing students with low priority, and 111 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	2310	3187	384	897	164	6942
Assigned to Housing	2277	3187	326	187	53	6030
Not Assigned to Housing	33	0	58	710	111	912

By Housing Category

Single Students
	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	1971	2505	259	795	130	5660
Assigned to Housing	1953	2505	224	155	33	4870
Not Assigned to Housing	18	0	35	640	97	790
Couples without Children
	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	268	551	104	93	15	1031
Assigned to Housing	253	551	81	23	1	909
Not Assigned to Housing	15	0	23	70	14	122
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
Applied for Housing	71	131	21	9	19	251
Assigned to Housing	71	131	21	9	19	251
Not Assigned to Housing	0	0	0	0	0	0

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):

333 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
58 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
All of the 18 unassigned new students restricted their choices and so are no longer guaranteed. They will still maintain a high priority for assignment.

Renewals:

2521 single graduate students were eligible to renew their contracts for the 2019-20 and bypass the Lottery.

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

4 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
77 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
All but two of the 35 unassigned students with medium priority restricted their choices.

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

6 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
65 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
84 additional students with low housing priority were assigned.

Continuing Graduate Students without Housing Priority:

1 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
32 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):

27 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
10 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.
15 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:

556 couples without children were eligible to renew their contracts for the 2019-20 and bypass the Lottery.

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

26 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
50 students with medium priority were assigned.

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

15 students were assigned with exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
8 couples with low housing priority were assigned.

Continuing Graduate Students without Housing Priority:

One student was an exempt medical accommodation or staff assignment.
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 of the new students with children who applied listing the Escondido Village apartments were assigned.

Renewals:

131 students with children were eligible to renew their contracts for the 2019-20 and bypass the Lottery.

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

All students with medium priority who applied listing the Escondido Village apartments were assigned.

Continuing Graduate Students with Low Housing Priority:

All students with low priority who applied listing the Escondido Village apartments were assigned.

Continuing Graduate Students without Housing Priority:

All students without priority who applied listing the Escondido Village apartments were assigned.

Special Priorities

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

Munger Graduate Residences	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.

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 MBA
Priority Level 5	Second-year MSx
Priority Level 6	Second-year PhD

Historical Graduate Housing Assignment Statistics

2018-19 Graduate Housing Statistics

2017-18 Graduate Housing Statistics

2016-17 Graduate Housing Statistics

2015-16 Graduate Housing Statistics

2014-15 Graduate Housing Statistics

2013-14 Graduate Housing Statistics

2012-13 Graduate Housing Statistics

2011-12 Graduate Housing Statistics