Is there Housing option in USA Universities?

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Away from home in a foreign country for higher studies may demand many adjustments to be made. Out of basic human need, housing is essential for every student. Students may have different set of life situations and requirements, like: some are single, married, have children, some want to have a private living space, some want to share their daily life with fellow students, etc. Full-time MBA of 2 years is pretty long time that makes you connect with the residential home. Many colleges in USA have campus housing options and others offer help for off-campus housing alternatives. Top universities in USA usually have their own well-built campus housing for students.

Let us read about some of them:

1. Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) is world renowned B-school in USA. They play host to one of the finest housing option for its students. HBS campus design is made with a purpose to ignite sense of community among students, the management believes daily communications in residential life only adds up to the learning potential.

More than 80% of Harvard Business School's students reside in on-campus dorms or apartments of HBS housing. The B-school provides many additional on-campus options to students who live in the campus.

There are 5 on-campus residence halls that are maintained by the HBS housing. These halls have one and two room single occupancy with attached baths. Students can enjoy high-speed internet access, dry cleaning, laundry facilities, housekeeping services, common lounge, flat panel TV and a piano in these dorms. This housing option is for single students regardless of their marital status. There is huge demand of these residence halls, thus selection is made through a lottery system.

2. Wharton University of Pennsylvania

Among top list of university in USA, Wharton is world famous B-school. They provide residence facilities on Penn's campus that consists of fully furnished studio facilities and 2 bedroom apartments. These apartments are situated in 2 high-rise graduate student apartment buildings at Samson place.

3. Stanford University

At Stanford University different types of on-campus housing options are available. They are as follows:

1. Single Undergraduate housing. The students live on-campus, here they get plenty of dorm and apartment options like residence halls, apartments & suites and small group houses.


2. Single Graduate Housing. This is for graduate students, they get options of various apartment communities like Escondido village, Escondido south, Lyman graduate residences, Munger graduate residence, rains houses and Schwab residential center.



Housing for Couples without Children. Married couples without children can reside in given apartment communities that include Escondido village, low rises, midrise, Kennedy graduate residences and munger graduate residence.



3. Housing for Students with Children. Students that have children with themselves are assigned designated communities that can meet their requirements. Escondido village low rises is one of them.

4. Kellogg School of Management

Here you get several on-campus housing options for the students. Let's take a look:

1. Engel hart hall consists of twin studio, shared apartments for single students and 2 bedroom apartments for families. They are fully furnished except kitchen accessories.


2. McManus living and learning center is basically for MBA students that consists of 7 store apartment building with 208 living units of 1 and 2 bedroom occupancy. It also has single and double studio apartments, out of which few of the latter are made to accommodate students with children.


3. Seabury is another on-campus housing option that has furnished studios, 1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments that are offered to students and their families. Students with classes on north campus prefer Seabury.

These were few lists of universities in USA that offers on-campus housing facilities. The management is also helpful in providing support to students for off-campus accommodation.