Single Rooms

Suites

Nittany Apartments

Eastview Terrace

Sororities

Special Living Options

For more information on how to apply for a specific style of on-campus housing, visit the eLiving Housing Contract System at www.eLiving.psu.edu.

Single Rooms, Suites, and Nittany Apartments

Single rooms, suites, and Nittany Apartments are assigned through a Lottery process in eLiving.

Single rooms are available in Pollock, South, and West Halls. You will share a bathroom with the other residents on your floor.

Suites are located in East, Pollock, South, North, and Nittany Halls. (North Halls eligibility is determined by Special Living Option membership.) Two-, three-, and four-person suites are available. Each suite has a private bathroom. Suitemates are of the same gender.

The Nittany Apartments community offers three different apartment styles:

Two-Bedroom Garden — Two students per bedroom, one bath

Four-Bedroom Garden — One student per bedroom, one bath

Townhouse — Four bedrooms, one student per bedroom, one-and-a-half baths

Each Nittany Apartment accommodates four students of the same gender. Students share the kitchen, bath(s), dining area, and living room.

Eligibility

Returning On-Campus Students, Transfer Students, and Change-of-Assignment Students: You will be eligible to enter the eLiving Lottery process for a single room, a suite, and/or a Nittany Apartment once you have received and accepted a regular room Housing Contract. If you receive and accept a Supplemental Housing Contract through eLiving, you will be eligible to add your name to the Waitlist for a single room, a suite, and/or a Nittany Apartment only when and if you are reassigned from the original supplemental room to a regular room.

How to Apply

If you apply during the fall semester: You must request a Housing Contract for a standard residence hall room through eLiving. If you receive and choose to accept the Contract Offer for a regular residence hall room, you will be asked before you log off if you would like to enter the Lottery process for a suite, a single room, and/or a Nittany Apartment. By clicking yes, you will then have the opportunity to indicate your room type preference. The Lotteries are drawn in late February and are drawn in a specific order. Once your name is drawn in one Lottery, you will not be considered for any of the other Lotteries. You will be notified by the end of June if you have received a suite, a single room, or a Nittany Apartment. Your specific room assignment will be available on your eLiving log-in page in early August.

If you do not receive an offer for a single room, a suite, and/or a Nittany Apartment through the Lottery process and do not get assigned to any of your preferences, you will automatically be placed on the specific Waitlist for each type of room you requested. As single rooms, suites, and Nittany Apartments become available, the Assignment Office will offer the rooms to students on the Waitlist in the random order established by eLiving.

If you are applying for a Nittany Apartments Housing Contract: Assignments to the various styles of Nittany Apartments will be based on the order in which your name was drawn in the Nittany Apartments Lottery and your stated preferences on your Lottery Request. Once one roommate is chosen, all other roommates will be pulled into the apartment by that first student. If the Assignment Office cannot accommodate all roommate choices, the first student will have the option of being assigned without his or her roommate choices.

If you do not apply through eLiving: You may still add your name to the single room, suite, and/or Nittany Apartments Waitlists if you did not apply for one of these room types through eLiving. Contact the Assignment Office at assignmentoffice@psu.edu. Your name will be added to the end of the Waitlist(s) that were generated during the Lottery process. New Waitlists are created for each new academic year. You will be notified by the Assignment Office if you have been offered a Housing Contract for one of these room types.

Removing Your Name from a Waitlist: It is your responsibility to contact the Assignment Office if you are no longer interested in accepting an assignment to a single room, a suite, or a Nittany Apartment. As long as your name remains on the Waitlist(s), you are indicating that you are willing to accept an assignment to and the increased cost of a single room, a suite, or a Nittany Apartment. The Assignment Office will assign students from the Waitlist(s) when rooms become available throughout the year. Once you receive notification of a room change to one of these rooms, you cannot be moved back to your original room, and you will be expected to accept the new room assignment and the costs associated with it.

Eastview Terrace

Eastview Terrace features single rooms with private baths. It is a coed residence area.

Eligibility

Students must currently live on campus and meet the following credit/semester standing requirements to be eligible to request housing at Eastview Terrace.

To Apply Through eLiving: You must have completed a minimum of 28 credits as of August of the academic year in which you request an Eastview Terrace Housing Contract.

To Add Your Name to the Eastview Terrace Waitlist: You must have completed a minimum of 60 credits prior to fall arrival of the academic year in which you will be living in Eastview Terrace. Sophomores who add their names to the Waitlist will be considered for Eastview Terrace rooms after all juniors and seniors have been accommodated.

How to Apply

If you are interested in living in Eastview Terrace, you must submit an Eastview Terrace Contract Request through eLiving in the fall of your current academic year.

The Eastview Terrace Contract Request process and the standard residence hall room Contract Request process begin at the same time. You will only be able to request one type of Housing Contract—for an Eastview Terrace room or for a standard residence hall room—when you first enter the eLiving process.

If you request an Eastview Terrace Housing Contract but are not selected for one, you will be notified before the Contract Request process for standard residence hall rooms ends. You will then need to go back to eLiving and submit a Contract Request for a standard residence hall room. If you receive and accept a contract for a regular room in a standard residence hall, and you have completed the minimum required credits, you may then add your name to the Eastview Terrace Waitlist.

Most students apply for an Eastview Terrace room through eLiving as described above. However, if you are unable to apply through eLiving, you may request to be placed on the Eastview Terrace Waitlist by contacting the Assignment Office.

Sororities

Members of the 22 sororities on campus are housed in double rooms in East, Pollock, and South Halls. Students live on the same floor as the other members of their sorority. Each sorority has a suite on the ground floor of its residence hall to use for meetings and social activities.

Sorority members are guaranteed housing on their sorority floor if the number of members living on campus does not exceed the number of rooms available on their sorority floor. If this occurs, the sorority officers, with the guidance of their chapter advisor, will determine which members will receive the guaranteed sorority floor contracts. Members who are not selected to receive a sorority housing contract by the sorority must participate in the eLiving contract request process if they wish to live on campus and will not be guaranteed housing on the sorority floor.

Requesting a Housing Contract

If you belong to a sorority and want to live on campus, you must log on to eLiving to request a Housing Contract. You will have the option to request either a sorority contract or a regular room contract.

If you want to live on your sorority floor, you must request a sorority contract. If you are identified as an active sorority member, you will automatically be offered a sorority contract and must accept that contract within the time period indicated on your contract. This contract offers you a room assignment on your sorority floor only.

If you do not want to live on your sorority floor, you must request a regular room contract. This Contract Request does not guarantee you on-campus housing, but if you are selected for a contract, you will be assigned with your preferences in mind and will be able to enter the single room, Nittany Apartment, and suite Lotteries.

For more information on sororities, visit the Fraternity & Sorority Life Web site.

Special Living Options

Students in our 19 Special Living Options (SLOs) live with other members of their SLO in close-knit communities ("houses") located in the residence halls, where they have the opportunity to participate in field trips, group dinners, and other social and educational activities. SLOs are located in each residence area. The residence area you live in will depend on the SLO you choose.

Eligibility

All students—including incoming first-year students and students who currently live off campus—are eligible to apply for an SLO. Although priority for placement in a particular SLO is given to students enrolled in the academic college affiliated with that SLO, other students may be assigned to the SLO if space permits.

How to Apply

The procedure you must follow to apply for an SLO depends on whether you are an incoming first-year student, a current student living on campus at University Park, a current student enrolled at a campus other than University Park, a current student living off campus, or a member of an SLO.

Get more information and application instructions.