Residence Halls
The RIT community feeling begins in the residence halls, where engineering students live side-by-side with art students; a student from India is experiencing his first winter, living with a skier from Maine; or a hearing student and her deaf floor mate are experiencing each others' cultures. Our residence halls are characterized by the diversity of students living there; most of them first-year RIT students. Lifestyle Floors and Special Interest Houses provide additional options for a more personalized living environment.
Freshmen
Residence hall assignments are made on a first-come, first-served basis, depending upon the postmark date of your admission deposit and the submission date of your housing contract. Entering freshmen are guaranteed housing; however, students who are the last to be admitted may be placed in temporary housing (i.e., rooms with expanded occupancy, vacancies in special interest housing, or local hotels). To complete a freshman housing contract please click here
NTID Students
To secure housing, NTID students should complete the residence hall contract and return it to Housing Operations. Residence hall assignments are made on a first-come, first-served basis, based on the postmark date of your admissions deposit and your residence hall contract.
Transfer and Graduate Students
Transfer and graduate students are assigned RIT housing on a space-available basis following the postmark date of the admissions deposit and the submission date of the housing contract; housing is not guaranteed. Some transfer and graduate students will be placed in temporary housing initially (e.g., local hotels or fraternities and sororities); however, during the summer and fall quarters students in temporary housing will be relocated to permanent RIT housing. To complete a transfer/graduate housing contract please click here
Residence Hall Resources
- Residence Life Staff
- Residence Hall Locations
- Comparison of Residence Hall Amenities
- Your Room
- Rates
- Virtual Tour