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Undergraduate accommodation

How to apply Rooms and prices

As a first-year undergraduate, we have a range of rooms available across multiple colleges to suit your budget.

2025/26 applications

Applications for accommodation for the 2025/26 academic year will open in Spring. We will update this page with further details, including the exact opening date and additional information, as soon as they are available.

Contact us

Office hours: Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm (excluding public holidays)

Accommodation Services

accommodation@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 322165

Accommodation at York

Whether you're an international student, or a UK home student, when you apply to live on campus as a first-year undergraduate, you're joining a supportive college community.

Take a look at our Accommodation at York video, and browse this web page to find out if campus accommodation at York is right for you.

All accommodation comes with

Bills included in the price of your rent

No additional costs to worry about

Contents insurance and 24 hour security

To give you peace of mind

An ensuite or shared bathroom

And a private washbasin

Wifi and 100mb wired internet

So that you can browse uninterrupted

Access to a shared kitchen

To cook your meals and hang out with flatmates

Access to a college common room

For some some extra communal space


You'll want to consider...


Bathroom type

In Shared bathroom accommodation, you'll have a wash basin in your room and share other bathroom facilities with your flat. All shared bathrooms are individually lockable and cleaned Monday to Friday by our cleaning team. Toilet roll is provided for you.

In Ensuite bathroom accommodation, you'll have your own toilet, wash basin and shower in your room. You’ll be responsible for keeping your ensuite clean, but our cleaners will perform a deep clean, usually once a term. You'll need to buy your own toilet roll.

About half of our campus accommodation is ensuite, and the rest has shared bathrooms. When applying for accommodation, at least three out of seven of your choices must be a shared bathroom.


Let length

40-week

40-week lets cover the academic year and Easter and Christmas vacations, up until the start of the summer vacation.

44-week

44-week lets cover the academic year, Easter and Christmas vacations and the start of the summer vacation.

50-week

50-week lets extend into most of the summer vacation as well. They are only available in some accommodation and are favoured by those who would like to stay on campus over the summer, such as some international students who will not be returning home.

38-week

38-week lets are very limited in number and are only available in Vanbrugh College. You will have to move all of your belongings out during the Easter vacation. You can save a little extra money by applying for these rooms, but should make sure you have arrangements for the Easter vacation.

Nursing and midwifery students: We understand that your 1st year finishes later than other courses at the University. We would recommend applying for a 44 week contract which is our longest undergraduate contract option. When this contract ends, you will be guaranteed on campus accommodation for the remainder of your 1st year by applying for our summer accommodation which will open in May.

Unsure if you want summer holiday accommodation? Don’t worry, you can always apply for summer accommodation separately nearer the time.


Catering

If you're self-catered, you'll make your own meals. You can buy meals individually from catering outlets, or take advantage of the Meals in Advance Deal to purchase meals at a cheaper rate on a termly basis.

Colleges on Campus East come with one evening meal a week included in their rent, but are otherwise self-catered.

If you're catered, you'll be served breakfast and an evening meal (Monday to Friday, during term time) in your college’s dining hall, included in your rent price. You’ll still have access to a shared kitchen for making lunch and weekend meals.


Price bands

  • Band 1 rooms are our value option, you may share facilities such as your kitchen with a few more people than other price bands.
  • Band 2 rooms are often in some of our original accommodation. You'll share facilities with a few more people than bands 3 and 4.
  • Band 3 rooms are our most common room type. They are often newer or more recently refurbished than band 1 or 2 rooms and facilities are shared with fewer people.
  • Band 4 rooms are a little bigger and can include additional furnishings, such as TVs and sofas.

Contact us

Office hours: Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm (excluding public holidays)

Accommodation Services

accommodation@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 322165