Generally any type of “honors program” guarantees 4 years of housing

I believe Rice and Tufts have housing all four years?
My kid is at USC and housing is guaranteed for Freshmen and Sophomore years, all the kids go off campus Junior Year, or Study Abroad, and Senior Year. There are plenty of apartments so its not an issue.
I would say, don't rule out a school just because housing isn't guaranteed to upper classmen. Most kids Want to get off campus, live in apartments by then. If there are decent, clean, reasonably priced apartments in the area, you're kid will be fine. Honestly, read reddit housing posts, they will be informative for you.

Tufts, Northeastern and BU have serious housing issues (not surprising given the widespread housing issues in Boston). Beyond big city schools, University of Vermont is having serious housing issues.

There is a very simple solution to this issue for any private: admit fewer students

Publics should do the same but they cannot due to state mandated

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Anonymous wrote:Generally rural schools (note, I don’t mean ritzy suburb or exburb) will make sure there is enough housing on campus for all students

Delaware Valley University is a 'rural' school in PA and they are having issues with enough housing
University of New England is a smaller private university in Maine and they are having issues with housing

I think it's a widespread concern

Neither of those schools are in rural areas.

Anonymous wrote:Case Western

Want to clarify that CWRU guarantees housing for all 4 years.

My DS looked at only LACs because of that - most of them require or at least provide housing for 3-4 years. It's a huge issue at my other kids' school, a mid-size private university.

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Anonymous wrote:Generally rural schools (note, I don’t mean ritzy suburb or exburb) will make sure there is enough housing on campus for all students

Delaware Valley University is a 'rural' school in PA and they are having issues with enough housing
University of New England is a smaller private university in Maine and they are having issues with housing

I think it's a widespread concern

Doylestown = ritzy suburb

Choose a school that requires students to live on-campus, preferably all four years.

Off-campus is rarely cheaper when you factor in that college students don’t have time to cook or grocery shop; utilities, WiFi, and furniture may not be included; too difficult to grocery shop even if there is time because students might not have cars, lugging groceries on a bus route is a PITA and grocery delivery is expensive; keeping a car at college is expensive due to maintenance, gas & driving the car too & from college might be unsafe; risk of a car getting broken into; paying 12 months rent in an off-campus lease; living in some slumlord’s rental house where the floors are caving in & they might pack in a random adult stranger as an extra housemate; difficult to access maintenance & kids having to sign NDAs if they move out of the apt early due to issues like mold and I could go on…college kids have plenty of time to grow up. I think living off-campus brings a ton of headaches 99% of the time.

Anonymous wrote:Generally rural schools (note, I don’t mean ritzy suburb or exburb) will make sure there is enough housing on campus for all students

Delaware Valley University is a 'rural' school in PA and they are having issues with enough housing
University of New England is a smaller private university in Maine and they are having issues with housing

I think it's a widespread concern

Generally rural schools (note, I don’t mean ritzy suburb or exburb) will make sure there is enough housing on campus for all students

To my knowledge:
-Basically every single liberal arts college.
-Any school struggling with underenrollment will have plenty of dorm space & is usually in a LCOL area, which means cheap rent for off-campus housing unless it’s in a tourist town. This includes publics in states like PA & New England.

Case Western

Brigham Young?

I never had to worry about housing when I went to school. I could have lived on campus all 4 years, but moved off for senior year and had great options. Based on a few tours and what I've seen here, housing can be a MAJOR issue. What schools actually do have room or, at the least, easily accessible off campus housing?

My DC has only been looking at Big State U type places b/c most LACS don't have certain ECs that are very important to them. I've seen/heard the issues with UC schools. Can anyone help identify schools that either definitely do have housing issues or ones where it isn't going to be a major issue?

Thank you!