Official On-Campus Housing
Application Information for New Students
Ready to choose Campus Living? Follow the steps below to secure your place in on-campus housing.
South Lake Village Maintenance Project: Coming Summer 2025
South Lake Village will be undergoing a maintenance project during the Summer of 2025. This will effect your summer housing assignment. For more information, please visit the South Lake Village Community Page.
Spring Housing Application Open Now
If you're still interested in on-campus housing for Fall 2024, please contact Housing Services at 716-645-2171.
Step 1: Housing Application and Deposit
New UB students have the opportunity to submit their housing application including the $300 housing deposit after they have paid their tuition deposit until spaces are unavailable.
All students who complete a housing application and submit a deposit are eligible for on-campus housing for the upcoming year based on availability of spaces.
Step 2: Review Your Housing Options and Eligibility
The types of housing students are eligible for is determined by their high school graduation date (or equivalent). Each housing type is for an academic year (late Aug-mid May) or full year (late Aug-late July) agreement.
Residence Halls
All residence halls have an agreement length of Academic Year.
Bedroom occupancy can be 1, 2, 3 or 4 depending on the room type selected.
For the 2024-2025 year; students who graduate high school in June 2024 are eligible for these residence halls:
All students are eligible for these residence halls:
Second Year Housing
In addition to the residence halls, students who graduated from high school in June 2023 are eligible to live in Greiner Hall or Creekside Village East apartments.
Both of these options have an agreement length of Academic Year and a bedroom occupancy of 2.
Apartments
In addition to the residence halls, students who graduated from high school in June 2022 or before are apartment eligible.
All of the below apartment bedrooms are single occupancy.
Helpful Links
Step 3: Think About Roommates
Reserving a Room with Friends
Students who wish to room together must select their housing assignments as a roommate group. The student with the earliest selection appointment time will select a room for their roommate group.
Students may form roommate groups before or during selection in the housing portal. Students will be notified when the roommate grouping process opens.
Pre-Assigned Students
Steps 3-6 do not apply to students who are pre-assigned their room space.
All students must be eligible for their desired living area and not already have a housing assignment. Students are strongly encouraged to be ready to adjust roommate groups in case your initial group size request is not available.
Finding a Roommate
As part of your application you will answer questions that will create your "Personal Profile".
Later, during the grouping process, you can use the Roommate Matching Tool to find someone with a similar profile to live with.
Step 4: Review the Selection Instructions
A step by step screen shot guide can be found below:
Step 1
Log in to the housing portal
Step 2
Choose "Room Selection" from the main menu
Step 3
To begin, select the term 2024-2025 Academic Year
(Fall Move-In)
Step 4
Students looking to go through self-selection without a roommate(s) do not need to create a group.
If you already created a roommate group, you will see all members of the group. If someone you are looking to be roommates with is not listed, you will need to invite them to join the group and they must accept the request in the Housing Portal before Self-Selection.
Step 5
If you are looking to create a group, you must select the CREATE GROUP button.
Students who already have their group created or are not going through as part of a group should select SAVE & CONTINUE.
Step 6
You must now name your group and then select SAVE GROUP
Step 7
From here, you can now search for other new students who have a completed housing application and have not yet been assigned. You will select on Search for Roommates by Details
Step 8
To search for a specific student to invite to your roommate group, you can search by UB email address or first and last name
To search a general person to to invite to your roommate group, you can search by High School Graduation year or male/female gender.
Step 9
During Self-Selection, you will first select the Building you wish to search for rooms. You will only see locations in which you are eligible to select from.
Step 10
The Rooms list will show the rooms that are available. You can filter by Room Type or scroll to find a specific room number.
Once you know which space you want to select, click on SELECT THIS ROOM.
If you want to go back to see spaces available in another building use the browser back button
Step 11
The number to the right of the bed icon is the total number of spaces in the room/suite/apartment.
For the Clinton Hall example, it is a double residence hall room with both spaces available to be selected.
For the Flint Village example, it is a 4 bedroom apartment. The room is a single bedroom and there 1 space available in the apartment.
Step 12
Once the space has been selected, you have 10 minutes to complete the next step of assigning the beds and completing the self-selection process.
Each member of the roommate group must be assigned a bed. Use the dropdown to assign each person a bed.
Step 13
Once you have assigned each person to a bed, select ASSIGN BEDS
Step 14
In order to finalize the room selection, you must select BOOK MY ASSIGNMENT.
Step 15
How do I know if I selected housing?
You will receive a confirmation email to your UB email and you will be able to see the email in your UB Housing Portal Communications. If you were the group leaded and selected housing for roommates, they will also receive a confirmation email.
Step 5: Receive Your Selection Date and Time
Selection Appointment Time
New Student Selection Begins in Late June for the fall semester
The selection appointment time determines the date and time students can start the self-selection process. Times are based on the date of your completed application.
Selection appointment times will be sent to your buffalo.edu address.
If you do not choose a room during the self-selection process, you will be automatically assigned an available room. You will be notified by email if this occurs and your assignment will be visible in the housing portal.
Selection Dates and Times
Students may select any type of housing for which they are eligible, starting at their housing selection appointment time until the end of the process.
Students are encouraged to select housing as close to their appointment time as possible. If there are no spaces that you are eligible for at the time of your appointment, we anticipate that you will be able to select housing by early August. Spaces will become available throughout the summer for students to select. We encourage you to continue to login to the housing portal regularly to see live up to date information.
Selection Proxy Form
Not available to select your room during your selection appointment time? Use the selection proxy form to request Housing Services to select for you.
Step 6: Choose Your Room Assignment
You will select your room assignment by logging in to the housing portal. Beginning with your selection date and time, you will have access to the self-selection module. You do not need to login exactly at your selection time. This is just the earliest time you can access it.
Available rooms will be listed for you to choose from. Learn how to read the room descriptions with our helpful legends below:
Will I be able to select into Greiner or an apartment?
The majority of spaces in Greiner and the apartments are occupied by returning students. A very limited number of spaces are available for new students in self-selection.
I’m in a roommate group of two, will I be able to get a double room?
Not all groups of two will be able to select into a double. Space may be available for groups of two in triples and quads.
I don’t like the options available to me, can I cancel my housing agreement?
Students who do not complete self-selection will be assigned on-campus housing. After the cancellation deadline, the housing agreement can only be canceled if the student is leaving UB.
Do I get a choice between living on North or South Campus?
The housing agreement is for a space on campus, not a specific campus or building. One-third of first-year students live on South Campus. Many students who live on South Campus have classes on North Campus, just a short ride away via UB shuttles. More information about living on South Campus.
There is no space available for me to select. Now what?
If there are no eligible spaces for you at the time of your appointment, we encourage you to check throughout the self-selection process. Students who are unable to select a space during self-selection, will be assigned by early August.
There are no spaces for me and my roommates. Now what?
Students are strongly encouraged to be ready to adjust roommate groups in case spaces are not available to accommodate your initial group size.
Can I live on-campus for the fall and move off-campus for spring?
No, the housing agreement is for the academic year.
Decoding Room Assignments
Residence Hall (Dormitory) Style Rooms
Residence hall rooms are traditional dormitory style. Unless otherwise noted, these rooms share a common, floor bath.
| Description | What it Means |
|---|---|
| Single Room | One room with one occupant |
| Double Room | One room with two occupants |
| Triple Room | One room with three occupants |
| Quad Room | One room with four occupants |
| w/Bath | Has private bathroom in room |
Note: there are no single rooms with private bathrooms in the residence halls.
Ellicott Complex, Greiner Hall and South Campus Halls have suite style rooms. Ellicott suites have two rooms (various sizes) that share a common area. Greiner suites have two double rooms that share a common area and private bath. South Campus suites have two rooms (various sizes) that share a bathroom.
About the Suite
| Description | What it Means |
|---|---|
| (3/1.0) | 3 person suite with private bath |
| (3/FLR) | 3 person suite with floor bath |
| (4/1.0) | 4 person suite with private bath |
| (4/FLR) | 4 person suite with floor bath |
| (5/FLR) | 5 person suite with floor bath |
| (6/FLR) | 6 person suite with floor bath |
About Your Room
| Description | What it Means |
|---|---|
| -Sgl | Room in suite with one occupant |
| -Dbl | Room in suite with two occupants |
| -Lg Dbl | Slightly larger double room in suite with 2 occupants |
Each suite has two rooms that may be selected individually or together (in Ellicott and Goodyear) or only together (in Greiner). For example, the two rooms in a 3-person Ellicott suite would be designated as:
| Description Format | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suite | (Number of students in suite/number of bath in suite) | - | Number of students in bedroom of suite | |
| SUI | (3/FLR) | Sgl | ||
| SUI | (3/FLR) | - | Dbl | |
| The room descriptions of the two rooms in a 3-person/floor bath would be: | ||||
SUI(3/FLR)-Sgl SUI (3/FLR)-Dbl | ||||
University at Buffalo has five on-campus apartment complexes. Each apartment comes with a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom(s), and studio/bedroom(s). Depending on the unit, the housing agreement is for an academic or full year.
Below is our terminology used for the apartment room descriptions.
About the Housing Agreement
| Description | What it Means |
|---|---|
| ACAD | Academic year agreement (late Aug. to mid May) |
| FULL | Full year agreement (late Aug. to July 31) |
About the Apartment
| Description | What it Means |
|---|---|
| (1/1.0) | 1 person apartment/1 full bath |
| (2/1.0) | 2 person apartment/1 full bath |
| (2/1.5) | 2 person apartment/1 full bath and a 1/2 bath |
| (2/2.0) | 2 person apartment/2 full bath |
| (3/1.0) | 3 person apartment/1 full bath |
| (4/1.5) | 4 person apartment/1 full bath and a 1/2 bath |
| (4/2.0) | 4 person apartment/2 full bath |
About Your Room
| Description | What it Means |
|---|---|
| -Studio | Studio apartment with Murphy bed |
| -Sgl | Single bedroom in apartment with 1 occupant |
| -Dbl | Double bedroom in apartment with 2 occupants |
| -Whole | Unit is being rented as a whole unit |
For example, a 4 person, 2 bath, academic unit, would break down as:
| Description Format | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment | - | Length of Agreement | (Number of people in apartment/number of baths in apartment | Bedroom Type |
| EXAMPLE | ||||
| APT | - | ACAD | (4/2.0) | -Sgl |
| APT-ACAD(4/1.0)-Sgl | ||||