Accommodation guarantee 2025/26

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• Undergraduates
• Postgraduates 
• Students not guaranteed accommodation

Undergraduates

You're guaranteed an offer of a single-occupancy room in accommodation owned, managed or approved by the University, if you apply for accommodation for the full academic year 2025/26, and meet the following criteria: 

• You're a new first-year undergraduate (UK or International).
• You choose York as your firm choice on UCAS, and apply for accommodation by 5pm BST on 31 July 2025. 
• Your offer becomes unconditional following A-Level Results Day on 14 August 2025.

Undergraduate Visiting students

You're also guaranteed an offer of a single-occupancy room in accommodation owned, managed or approved by the University, if you meet the following criteria:  

• Accept an unconditional course offer to study at York from Semester 1 (starting your course in September 2025) by 5pm BST on 30 June 2025.
• or, accept an unconditional offer to study at York for Semester 2 (starting your course in February 2026) by 5pm on 30 November 2025.

Postgraduate-taught (PGT) students

You're guaranteed an offer of a single-occupancy room in accommodation owned, managed or approved by the University, if you apply for accommodation for the full academic year 2025/26, and meet the following criteria:

• You're a new postgraduate-taught student (UK or International).
• You accept an offer to study at York, and apply for accommodation by 5pm BST on 31 July 2025.
• Your study offer becomes unconditional by 5pm BST on 8 August 2025.

Students who are not guaranteed accommodation

If you don't meet the above criteria, we would still encourage you to apply for accommodation by the deadline date of 31 July 2025 (Undergraduates) and 8 August 2025 (Postgraduates) for the 2025/26 academic year. If you are unable to apply by the deadline, applications will open from 14 August 2025.

Insurance students

If you have selected the University of York as your insurance choice through UCAS you can apply for accommodation until 31 July 2025. You are not guaranteed accommodation, however your applications will be considered once all guaranteed students have been offered accommodation.  

If the University of York was your firm choice via UCAS before 31 July 2025 and you did not apply for accommodation by this date, you will still be able to apply for accommodation after 14 August 2025 (A-Level Results Day), however you are not guaranteed accommodation.

Later Applicants

If the University of York was your firm choice via UCAS before 31 July 2025 and you did not apply for accommodation by this date, you will still be able to apply for accommodation after 14 August 2025 (A-Level Results Day), however you are not guaranteed accommodation.

Accommodation for Couples and Families

We welcome applications from couples and families, however, we have a limited number of suitable bed spaces and therefore we cannot guarantee accommodation for those applying for couple or family accommodation.

Returning students

Due to the limited availability of rooms for returning undergraduates and postgraduates, we are unable to offer an accommodation guarantee for all returning students.