General Housing Statistics

Assignment Round Statistics

2020-21 Second Round Autumn Quarter Lottery Assignment Results

Overall Second-Round Lottery Statistics

All Graduate Students

By Housing Category

2020-21 First Round Autumn Quarter Lottery Assignment Results

Overall First-Round Lottery Statistics

All Graduate Students

By Housing Category

Single Graduate Housing

Couples without Children Housing

Students with Children Housing

Historical Graduate Housing Assignment Statistics

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

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

View historical graduate housing assignment statistics.
Single Graduate

In the 2020-21 second round of the Graduate Housing Lottery, there were a total of 396 students who applied for Graduate Housing. After the first round, there were a total of 54 unassigned students (3 new student, 11 continuing doctoral students with medium priority, 1 continuing students with low priority, 2 continuing students without priority years and 37 non-matriculated students). For more details, see below.

All Students
	New Graduate Students with High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Continuing Students without Priority	Non-matriculated Priority	Total
Applied for Housing	70	58	22	14	232	396
Assigned to Housing	67	47	21	12	195	342
Not Assigned to Housing	3	11	1	2	38	54

Single Students
	New Graduate Students with High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Continuing Students without Priority	Non-matriculated Student Priority	Total
Applied for Housing	51	24	19	8	123	225
Assigned to Housing	49	21	18	8	107	203
Not Assigned to Housing	2	3	1	0	16	22

Couples without Children
	New Graduate Students with High Priority	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Continuing Students without Priority	Non-matriculated Student Priority	Total
Applied for Housing	18	34	3	6	41	102
Assigned to Housing	17	26	3	4	22	72
Not Assigned to Housing	1	8	0	2	19	30

In the 2020-21 Lottery, there were a total of 6,730 students who applied for Graduate Housing. After the first round, there were a total of 83 unassigned students (10 new students, 40 continuing doctoral students with medium priority, 24 continuing students with low priority and 9 continuing students without priority years). For more details, see below.

All Students
	New	Renewals	Medium Priority	Low Priority	No Priority	Total
Applied for Housing	2098	2039	1310	1059	224	6730
Assigned to Housing	2088	2039	1270	1035	215	6647
Not Assigned to Housing	10	---	40	24	9	83

Single Students
	New	Renewal	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Total
Applied for Housing	1802	1524	1035	970	160	5491
Assigned to Housing	1800	1524	1024	949	154	5451
Not Assigned to Housing	2	---	11	21	6	40

Couples without Children
	New	Renewal	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Total
Applied for Housing	260	392	248	83	52	1035
Assigned to Housing	252	392	219	80	49	992
Not Assigned to Housing	8	---	29	3	3	43

Students with Children
	New	Renewal	PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority	Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority	Cont'g without priority	Total
Applied for Housing	36	123	27	6	12	204
Assigned to Housing	36	123	27	6	12	204
Not Assigned to Housing	0	---	0	0	0	0

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 did not receive 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 "willing to live anywhere on campus" are guaranteed housing. Munger, the GSB Residencesthe off-campus, subsidized housing and premium studios (for single students) 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):

280 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
43 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
The 2 unassigned new students restricted their choices and so are no longer guaranteed. They will still maintain a high priority for assignment.

Renewals:

1524 single graduate students were eligible to renew their contracts for the 2020-21 and bypass the Lottery.

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

8 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
154 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
The 11 unassigned students with medium priority restricted their choices.

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

25 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
127 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
The 21 unassigned students with low priority restricted their choices.

Continuing Graduate Students without Housing Priority:

4 of those assigned were Graduate School of Business assignments to the GSB Residences.
54 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
The 6 unassigned students with no priority restricted their choices

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):

31 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
38 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.
The 8 unassigned new couples without children listed restricted choices and are no longer guaranteed housing, but will still maintain a high priority for assignment.

Renewals:

392 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):

51 of those assigned were exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
All of the new couples without children who indicated that they were willing to live anywhere were assigned.
The 29 unassigned couples without children with medium priority listed restricted choices

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

21 students were assigned with exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
7 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.
The 3 unassigned couples without children with medium priority listed restricted choices

Continuing Graduate Students without Housing Priority:

21 students were assigned with exempt medical accommodations or staff assignments.
1 of those assigned was a 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.
The 3 unassigned couples without children with medium priority listed restricted choices

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:

123 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	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 students
Priority Level 6	Second-year PhD

Students with Children

New Graduate Students with High Priority

PhD, JD, MD & JSD with Medium Priority

Coterms and 2nd year Masters with Low Priority

Continuing Students without Priority

Non-matriculated Student Priority

Applied for Housing

Assigned to Housing

Not Assigned to Housing

2019-20 Graduate Housing 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