Residence halls, rooms, baths, etc. Housing Choices

Before making your housing choices, it’s important for you to understand your options.

• Individual residence halls: Visit individual residence hall pages for photos, information about features, resident testimonials, a floor plan of a typical room, and a “360” tour.
• Locations: Find out where on campus each residence hall is located.
• Virtual tour: Take a 360 degree tour of each hall.
• A good deal: All of the residence halls offer amenities and features that will help you to stay focused on academics and find your niche on campus.

Your Choices

After you sign and return your housing contract, pay your advance payment, and decide where you’d like to live and what kind of room you’d like, you’ll be able to make your housing choices online. Here’s what you’ll have to indicate:

• Your first- and second-choice preference for shared space or a single room (limited availability at a higher cost).
• Your bath preferences, including if you have an interest in a connecting or private bath (limited availability at a higher cost)
• Your building and room preferences (select five residence halls)

In most cases it’s a good idea to make your housing choices online as soon as you make a decision. If you change your mind after you enter your choices, you can always log back in and update them. Students who do not make their choices online may end up being assigned a room at random.

Roommates

If you want to share your room with a specific person, you’ll need to make your roommate choice online.

1. Log in to My Housing.
2. Select the “Roommate Preference” link in the Navigation Menu.
3. Enter your roommate’s UT EID and have your roommate do the same with your EID. Be sure that your building and room preferences also match your roommate’s so that there isn’t a conflict when room assignments are made.

Your roommate name will be sent to you with your room assignment beginning in mid-July.