Residential Life & Housing

Quinnipiac recognizes that learning occurs both in and outside of the classroom. The Office of Residential Life provides rich opportunities that promote student learning and enhance personal development. Students have the unique opportunity to live with students from a variety of diverse backgrounds. The Office of Housing is responsible for housing contracts, room assignments, housing selection processes, occupancy management, break housing, summer housing and the university's 3-year residency requirement. 

The Office of Housing is co-located with Residential Life on the Mount Carmel Campus. The telephone number is 203-582-8667 and the email address is housing@qu.edu

University-Owned Housing

The university offers a variety of student housing options. Students typically progress toward more independent living from year to year.

Quinnipiac housing is required for three years for incoming first-year students. Approximately 5,000 students live in university housing, which includes traditional residence halls, suites, apartments and off-campus apartments and houses. 

First-year students are offered a variety of living options: Irma, Dana, Commons, Ledges and The Grove are traditional residence halls with two to four people to a room and a community bathroom; Mountainview is a suite-style residence hall with each suite consisting of four double-occupancy rooms with a shared common room and a bathroom.

Sophomores choose between suite-style housing offered in the Village or apartments in the Hill, the Complex (Founders, Sahlin and Bakke), the Suites (Larson, Perlroth and Troup) and Mountainview. The units in the Village and the Hill feature three double-occupancy bedrooms. The units in the Suites feature four double-occupancy bedrooms. The units in Sahlin and Bakke feature one double-occupancy bedroom and two single-occupancy bedrooms. 
 
Juniors may select from available apartment-style housing in the Hill, Founders, Crescent, Townhouses, Westview, Eastview, or off campus at Whitney Village. Whitney Village apartments provide one to four bedrooms, a furnished living room, an oversized bathroom and a kitchen. University-owned houses are minutes away from the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses, all feature single bedrooms and are fully furnished.

Seniors may select from available apartment-style housing in Eastview, off campus at Whitney Village or in university-owned houses. Whitney Village apartments provide one to four bedrooms, a furnished living room, an oversized bathroom and a kitchen. University-owned houses are minutes away from the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses, all feature single bedrooms and are fully furnished.

Graduate housing is available on a limited basis at Whitney Village. 

Three-Year Housing Requirement and Exception Process

Quinnipiac University wants students to engage in the full experience of living on campus to maximize their personal and professional development. As part of that experience, all full-time undergraduate students enrolling in the fall or spring are required to live in QU housing for their first three years (until the end of their sixth academic semester, not including summer or winter terms).

Registration as a full-time student at the university during any fall or spring academic term constitutes acceptance of the housing requirement and will result in a housing assignment and charge, unless the student has requested and been approved for release from the housing requirement by the Office of Housing.

We want to make a Quinnipiac experience accessible to all students and will be considerate of individual circumstances as it relates to this housing requirement. Requests for release from the housing requirement will be considered in limited circumstances such as the following:

  • Students who are married (including civil union or domestic partnership)
  • Students who have dependents
  • Students who are 24 years of age or older, as of September 1 of the academic year
  • Veterans
  • Students who are participating in a university-approved academic experience, such as study abroad
  • Documented hardship/family health condition
  • Students who live within a 25-mile drive of campus at their permanent legal residence (home address) with a parent, legal guardian or sibling or will be living with an immediate family member (parent, grandparent, sibling) who is over the age of 25 at their permanent legal address.

Please know, the university reserves the unfettered right to make changes to this approach at any time based on world issues.

Residential Curriculum

The Office of Residential Life provides intentional learning experiences for all residential students through the implementation of our residential curriculum. The curriculum is a framework for providing sequential learning to students throughout their academic careers. Our educational priority is that, by living on campus, students will develop a strong sense of self and become engaged, responsible and inclusive members of their current and future communities.