Life At Duke: Housing & Dining: Housing Options

When Duke students live together, it helps create a strong sense of community. For this reason, undergraduates are guaranteed four years of on-campus housing, as long as space remains available, and are required to live on campus for their first three years. Although seniors can opt to live off campus, many choose to remain on campus. As a result, about 85 percent of our undergraduates live on campus.

All first-year students live in residence halls on East Campus in a housing community intentionally designed to support the needs and interests of those new to college life. All sophomores live on West Campus, and upper-class students can choose to live on West Campus or in Central Campus apartments. To encourage community among students and to foster relationships between first-year and upper-class students, there are six "quads" on West campus, each linked to houses on East campus.

All residence halls are co-ed and come equipped with amazing staff members: Residence Coordinators (RCs), Graduate Assistants (GAs), and Residential Assistants (RAs) are there to make sure the students are comfortable, safe, and engaged in the quad community.

Students are assigned to housing randomly, but they have an opportunity to state preferences for things like single rooms, single-sex or coed halls, and specific living communities. Rooms include a chest of drawers, closet or wardrobe, mirror, study desk and chair, bookcase or shelving, window blinds, a bed (36" x 80" mattress — XL Twin), and cable, phone, and computer network connections. For information on Internet services and wireless access, visit the Office of Information Technology.

Both East Campus and West Campus have recreation centers, libraries, dining halls, cafes, post offices, tennis and basketball courts, and bus stops for easy access between the various parts of the university.

More info:

First-Year Student Housing Information
Dean of Students