Puget Sound is a residential campus, which means that most students live on campus. Living in community is an integral part of a liberal arts education that provides you opportunities to cultivate new friendships, find academic support, and explore co-curricular activities.
Housing at Puget Sound
Living on campus isn’t just about a place to sleep and study—a chance to get involved, developing crucial life skills, and connect with other students with similar academic and extra-curricular interests. Residence Life staff are here to help you navigate living on campus and offer resources to maximize and enhance your academic, social, civic, and community life.
On and around campus, you’ll find nine traditional residence halls, two suite-style residence halls, nearly 50 university-owned houses, and eight Greek houses. Discover more about the housing options to satisfy Puget Sound’s two-year live-on requirement.
Housing Options
Traditional Residence Halls
In our traditional halls, you’ll live in a single, double, triple, or quad room. Every student is provided an extra-long twin-size bed, desk with drawers, chair, wardrobe, and bookshelf. Common amenities include shared bathrooms, lounges, computer labs, kitchenettes, free full laundry facilities, and free wifi. Some residence halls also feature study rooms, indoor bicycle storage, and TV or piano lounges.
Suite-Style Residence Halls
In our suite-style residence halls, students live in single rooms sharing bathrooms, kitchens, and living rooms with a small group of roommates. Reserved for upperclassmen, students living in suites are provided extra-long twin-size bed, desk with drawers, chair, wardrobe, and bookshelf. Common amenities include bathrooms, fully furnished living rooms, kitchens with full dining tables, full free laundry, and free wifi.
Want to live with a group of students who share the same hobbies or academic interests? Theme living communities at Puget Sound provide opportunities for students to develop a living and learning environment that reflects their shared identity.
- Students of Color Residential Community
- SERVE (Community Service) Community (Seward Hall)
- Environmental Adventures Community (Seward Hall)
- Honors Residential Program
(Anderson/Langdon Hall, Thomas Hall and Langlow House) - Trans & Nonbinary Housing
- Theme Houses
Located directly across the street from campus, Puget Sound’s eight Greek chapter houses give students the opportunity to be active in their community as part of a fraternity or sorority. Students may live in a chapter house after their freshman year.
These 47 university-owned houses are located around campus, providing students with a chance to live independently in a small community. Each house is fully furnished and includes a full kitchen, washer and dryer, standard twin beds, closets or wardrobes, desks, and bookcases.
Residence Life offers on-campus housing to Graduate Students to better support their academic and personal success. We have reserved 8 single family houses that will accommodate 3-5 students each. The houses are located a short walk away from Weyerhaeuser Hall and the rest of campus.
Trans & Nonbinary Inclusive Housing
We affirm the gender identity of all students. Learn more about finding housing that fits your unique needs.
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Room & Board Rates
The costs of living on campus as well as aid and support available to students.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rooms are assigned based on a variety of factors. Academic themed programs are given priority, and then students are placed based on their housing application responses and available space. First-year students are eligible for housing in Anderson/Langdon, Harrington, Regester, Schiff, and Todd/Phibbs. Transfer students are eligible for housing in Smith, Oppenheimer, depending on class standing Trimble, Thomas, and the campus houses. To provide as many possible matches for each student, all applications submitted before June 1 are processed with the same consideration given to each application. Students are randomly assigned to specific floors or room types (i.e., a quad, double, triple).
Floor plans are available to view on our website and require a Puget Sound username and password to view. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide exact floor dimensions for rooms. A standard room in our traditional halls (Anderson/Langdon, Harrington, Regester, Schiff, Seward, and Todd/Phibbs) is rectangular and approximately 180 square feet. There is a large variance in rooms in our halls, depending on location in the hall and physical building components such as pipes, pillars, and ceilings.
Each room does come with one extra-large twin bed per student, and one desk per student. Double rooms share one small bookcase. Triple and quad rooms have between one and three bookcases, depending on available inventory and space.
All laundry on-campus is free. Each residence hall and house has its own laundry facility, typically on each floor in the residence halls. Students should bring a laundry basket and detergent. No quarters or laundry cards are required.
Once you have received a housing assignment you may request placement on our housing waitlist by submitting a Change of Housing Request. If a vacancy should occur, you will be moved. Our waitlist is first come first served and will be utilized up until mid-August on the day of new student move-in. After students have begun to move in, the waitlist expires and we have a room freeze until after the 10th day of classes. We strongly believe it is important for students to make the best of their housing once they have moved on campus. If after the 10th day of classes, you are still interested in moving rooms, you may contact your Resident Director to initiate the room change process. Room changes are subject to availability.
Single rooms in first-year halls are only available to students with a medical or psychological need and approved by Student Accessibility and Accommodation (SAA) based on availability. Documentation is required with SAA for an approved housing adjustment. To contact SAA about a housing accommodation, such as a single room, access to a specific feature in the community such as a kitchen, please contact SAA at saa@pugetsound.edu. You may also visit the Student Accessibility and Accommodation website for more information on the university's policy for emotional support animals.
Do you have a large balance on your meal plan? Do you keep running out of money on your card? If so, you may want to change your meal plan. If your meal plan is not the right one for you, please feel free to change it. To add or change a meal plan, visit MyPugetSound. In the Student Financial's tab choose " Change My Meal Plan." Select an option within * Meal Plan then select save meal plan. You may only change your meal plan during the first ten days of the semester.
Read more about residential policies, rates and refunds, or other resources available to on-campus residents.