<p>Is it possible for them to? I've lived in both dorms and apartments, and I still much prefer dorms.</p>
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<p>If only the university offers housing for graduate students. Even so, they’re mostly like going to be university-owned apartments.</p>
<p>Not many universities provide housing for graduate students, although some do. The two that come to mind are NYU and Princeton. I know for a fact that one of Princeton’s options for graduate students is indeed a dorm, but I suspect that’s rare.</p>
<p>Stanford and Harvard both had law student dorms, at least as of a few years ago. And I know Stanford has extensive grad student apartment-type housing – otherwise (as with Princeton and NYU) it would be difficult (as in “horribly expensive”) for grad students to live anywhere nearby.</p>
<p>Universities sometimes have grad students serve as RAs, and they live in undergraduate dorms that way. Not the easiest thing in the world to do, but some people like it.</p>
<p>I lived in a dorm throughout college, and loved it. Then, when I went to law school, I decided not to live in the law school dorm, and instead to share an apartment. After a week of that I had no desire ever to live in a dorm again.</p>
<p>I know both Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh have limited graduate student housing a short bus ride away from campus.</p>
<p>Here at Caltech there’s a graduate student apartment complex, as well as a few other miscellaneous apartments scattered around the area owned by the school. There’s also Avery house, which is a mix of grad students, visiting professors, and undergrads. One of my friends lived there his first year of grad school and enjoyed it, but was ready to move out by the end of his contract.</p>
<p>More and more universities are providing on-campus apartment-style housing as an option for grad students. As JHS mentioned, it’s a matter of convenience and cost of living.</p>
<p>Columbia also has dorms for its graduate students, but only for some. Typically they give the dorms to grad students who are coming from really far away, since it would be hard for them to find housing.</p>
<p>Many schools offer grad housing, but as many have noted it is usually more like an on-campus apartment. They figure that by this point you are probably done living in a shoebox with a much-shared bathroom. My experience has been that such housing is usually occupied by internationals and other people who want an “easier” housing solution.</p>
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That’s strange to hear, because every graduate institution I applied to, not just Princeton, has graduate housing.</p>
<p>Kryptonsa, you are correct. After I posted, I considered going back to change it to “dorm-style housing” but then, since I’ve never seen the housing at NYU, I figured I could be wrong on that count, too.</p>
<p>But grad housing is extremely limited at many places. In general, if undergraduates are guaranteed only two years of on-campus living, chances are that graduate housing is severely limited as well. (As far as I could tell, my daughter couldn’t get university housing at either of her final two choices. She had to find an apartment.)</p>
<p>I’ve looked into it at schools I’ve applied to, and most seem to have some sort of housing, usually apartments. But the cost tends to be high–often a lot more than stuff off campus that’s still in walking distance. The only good deals were in some big cities… Einstein has studio apartments for $450/mo. That’s pretty sweet in NYC.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention that Vanderbilt has no graduate student housing, as far as I know of.</p>
<p>Harvard has a number of Harvard-affiliated apartment buildings, but they charge very close to market rent, meaning they come close to being unaffordable on a graduate student salary. The apartments are very nice, but cheaper options (and more convenient options) are easily found. The only graduate dorm at the medical school is intended mostly for medical students, although occasionally a spot opens up and a grad student snatches it.</p>
<p>MIT has a fair number of graduate dorms, including family dorms, which are also mostly apartment-style.</p>
<p>The Harvard GSAS dorms aren’t affordable?</p>
<p>Son felt living in grad dorm at MIT, at least first year, would have a lot of advantages. Holds true. There was an assortment of options.</p>
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Well, the apartments do include some or most utilities, depending on the building, but given the guideline that you’re only supposed to spend 1/3 of your annual income on rent, I think a $1500/mo studio is pretty unaffordable for a grad student. </p>
<p>I only know one person who lives in a Harvard-affiliated apartment building. A lot of people in my program live in one of the buildings near the med school first year, but most people move out second year when they realize how much cheaper their housing could be elsewhere.</p>
<p>$1500/month?! I thought the whole purpose of offering graduate student housing was to subsidize it so students could afford to live there.</p>
<p>Harvard also has some dorm style housing near the FAS campus. I’m pretty sure that’s quite cheap. </p>
<p>Neither the MIT nor the Harvard grad apartments are subsidized by much, if anything.</p>
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Yeah, I was talking about those. They seem to be in the range of $5k-9k per school year.</p>
<p>Stanford has an array of grad apartments available. They are not inexpensive in absolute terms ($900-1000/mo per person in a 2 bedroom), but they are convenient and well appointed and include utilities and much cheaper than Palo Alto. However if you want to live 20 minutes from campus you can save a little, but then you need a car.</p>