Schools with at least two years in dorms

[Anonymous]

Georgetown and Brown both require 3 years on campus living.

I was really attracted to those schools for my kid for this reason. My kid is at one of them.

I was not keen on our state flagship where everyone moved off Sophomore year...and had to commute to campus. Parents told me nightmare stories of rentals go wrong, having to sign a lease and find roommates by December of Freshmen year and then those kids not even wanting to live together by the end of the first year. Also, jacked up rents for cr*p apartments.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a list of where 89%+ of students live on campus (so 3+ years on average):

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/most-on-campus

(I'll note that my SLAC alma mater is said to have 96% of students living on campus, but it's not listed here.)

[Anonymous]

William and Mary requires two years on campus. They are building new housing which will accommodate most juniors and seniors, too.

[Anonymous]

UVa does not *require* 2 years in dorms, but there are multiple on-grounds housing options that allow a student to choose that. Enough students ipt for off-grounds housing that a student wanting on-grounds nearly always can get it somewhere on grounds (but not necessarily at their 1st choice dorm).

[Anonymous]

UNC Wilmington

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Anonymous wrote:UVa does not *require* 2 years in dorms, but there are multiple on-grounds housing options that allow a student to choose that. Enough students ipt for off-grounds housing that a student wanting on-grounds nearly always can get it somewhere on grounds (but not necessarily at their 1st choice dorm).

People scramble for off-campus housing by 2nd year. Not ideal

[Anonymous]

BU does not require students to stay on campus for two years, but it guarantees housing for four years, so there’s no problem staying in campus housing.

[Anonymous]

So many that you should start with schools you’re interested in, then research their policy - rather than making a list of who offers 2 yrs of guaranteed housing. It would be a long list.

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Anonymous wrote:Would love feedback. I would rather look at schools that mandate dorms for at least two years. Seems a lot of schools just have one and then you are on your own. I think my DC would benefit from a few years dorms. DC agrees. TIA

Princeton Penn Brown Duke Hopkins WashU... loads of top privates

[Anonymous]

Fairfield

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Anonymous wrote:BU does not require students to stay on campus for two years, but it guarantees housing for four years, so there’s no problem staying in campus housing.

BC is the same. Most stay on campus but they don’t have to.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a list of where 89%+ of students live on campus (so 3+ years on average):

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/most-on-campus

NP. This list is useful for you, OP. I'll add that not all these schools have a formal requirement for students to live on campus after freshman year, but in effect, because of things like the surrounding housing market, plenty of dorm space, and/or a culture of living on campus instead of off-campus, students still expect to live in campus housing after the first year.

I can add, from our family's experience (DD went to a college on the list above with a high 90s percentage), a campus where nearly everyone lives on campus all four years does a lot to reduce student stress. No stress and pressure over needing to find off-campus housing, get it locked in extremely early, scramble to find roommates at times, etc. DD's frieinds at a couple of large schools, where almost no one stays on campus after freshman year, experienced a lot of stress around things like having to nail down housing in the middle of one school year for the next school year, etc.

[Anonymous]

It’s fun when everyone is on campus with a big center green. Sucks when everyone is spread out in apartment complexes and houses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's a list of where 89%+ of students live on campus (so 3+ years on average):

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/most-on-campus

Note some schools with popular study abroad programs treat those students as off campus so don’t make this list. Carleton is one example. I think they have around 9% studying abroad at any time and another 3% actually living off campus while taking classes on campus.

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Anonymous wrote:UCLA - all 4 yrs but you start in a triple room

But they also count living in your fraternity or sorority house, right??? Otherwise none of those houses in Westwood would be able to sustain themselves….