Housing

We guarantee that all first-year students will be able to live on campus so they can establish a sense of community and have the residential college experience they desire and expect. They will be offered a choice between singles and double suite-style rooms, and we will do our best to accomodate as many first choices as possible.

The University is committed to helping students secure housing. The Transfer Living Community will accommodate transfer students with doubles in suite-style rooms. There is limited availability. We’re working diligently on several other options and will soon have details about the various options that will be available. You can also visit the off-campus housing resource website at https://www.du.edu/housing/resources/offcampus.html.

To meet the health and housing needs of our University of Denver students, for the 2020-2021 school year, rising second-year students can waive the live-on-campus requirement. Second-years who applied for university-provided housing will live in either on-campus residence halls or in nearby apartment communities. To mirror on-campus offerings, apartment communities will include the presence of resident assistants (RA's), standard amenities, student workshops, programs, and connection check-ins. Eligible students will still receive the residence hall grant if they move off campus.

If you're looking for more information on how to find off-campus housing, visit https://www.du.edu/housing/resources/offcampus.html.

The University has expanded the live-at-home radius from 25 to 45 miles from campus for first-year students who may prefer to live at home for a variety of reasons. Please work with the Office of Admission to request a release form or find one online at https://admission.du.edu/register/liveathome. If you live farther than 45 miles from campus and have medical, financial or other special circumstances, please work with the Office of Admission for more information.

Fall quarter will likely consist of face-to-face classes, hybrid classes, and on-line instruction. We are making plans now to de-densify our classrooms and have health and safety protocols in place. Everything will depend upon guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and the Colorado Department of Environment and Health, and what is recommended or required for higher education institutions—and of course, what we think is safe for the DU community. If you sign a lease with an external company, please consider discussing a COVID provision with them. Any contract you sign with an external company is an obligation between you and that company. The University will not intervene.

We will be offering a mix of housing accommodations with singles and suite-style double rooms that best align with physical distancing and bathroom usage measures based on our room type set up in each residence hall.

Please send an email to housingassignments@du.edu by June 18, or we will assume you want to be considered for a housing placement next year.

Living and Learning Communities (LLCs) will be proceeding with some adaptations. Housing will be provided for all. The University will provide more information for students in the LLCs soon.

HRE and the Office of International Education are working together to help support students in understanding their resources and finding housing options. We are committed to making sure everyone has a place to live this fall. The University is committed to helping students secure housing. You can also visit the off campus housing resource website at https://www.du.edu/housing/resources/offcampus.html.

Yes. We will honor that commitment for the term you were scheduled to study abroad even if there isn’t space on campus. If you had already signed up for campus housing for winter and spring and there isn’t space on campus, you will also receive the residence hall grant for those terms.

We’re working hard on this issue now and will be in touch with details about the various options that will be available very soon. You can also visit the off campus housing resource website at https://www.du.edu/housing/resources/offcampus.html.

You will need to contact your chapter president or house corporation for any housing releases that are required as a condition of your membership.

Yes. If you had a housing contract with DU for the next academic year and cancel it to move off campus, you will receive the residence hall grant.

Students who wish to cancel their housing application/contract and instead live independently of DU should email housingassignments@du.edu by Tuesday, June 18. Eligible students will still receive the residence hall grant if they move off campus.

Very soon we will determine which rooms are assigned as singles and doubles, and how we will manage the CDC’s requirement to de-densify. Based on those decisions, we will reach out to students and make room assignments.

The University has developed a plan to move to 77% occupancy in on-campus housing. The plan includes single rooms in buildings where students share a hallway bathroom and some double-room options in buildings with in-suite bathrooms. Cleaning schedules in hallway bathrooms will be increased.

We will do our very best to keep roommates on the same floor or at least in the same building.

The housing process for third- and fourth-year students already occurred.  If students need support finding housing we have a great resource for off campus housing. Students can email Offcampus.housing@du.edu to learn more.

We are creating an off-campus residential experience that mirrors what we offer on campus, including the presence of resident assistants (RAs). We are developing these residential communities in nearby apartment complexes that have full laundry services, work-out facilities and study rooms. Students will have an opportunity to engage in workshops, programs, and residential connection check-ins. We are creating a DU “home” off campus for our students.

Eligible students will still receive the residence hall grant if they move off campus.