Undergraduate Accommodation

Single room accommodation is guaranteed to all undergraduates during term time.

First year accommodation

First year accommodation is all on the main College site and is mainly in Tree Court. Courts are divided into staircase blocks, lettered from A to P; room numbers are prefixed by their staircase letter. Rooms are referred to by letter and number, e.g. B14, and corridors by floor: top, middle or bottom, so you could end up on Top F or Middle A.

First year rooms are allocated randomly, though corridors are normally single-sex. A ballot will take place for more expensive rooms with showers.  Each corridor has people taking a range of different subjects.

Please bear in mind that you will be charged for your room during term time irrespective of whether the room is occupied or not. If you wish to remain in College outside the normal Residence period, you must apply to the Domestic Manager via the termly exeats. Please note that only in exceptional circumstances will it be possible for students to remain in their term time room outside Residence period.

2nd, 3rd and 4th year accommodation

In later years, housing is allocated by a ballot organised by the JMA. First and third year undergraduates live mainly on the College site, but about half of second years choose to live in one of the nearby College houses.

Undergraduates in their 3rd or 4th year on 29 week contracts who pre-book accommodation in College (via the exeat form) during the final two weeks of the Easter vacation will be offered a £30 per week discount. This discount will be calculated pro rata to the number of nights pre-booked and will only be offered once per student (i.e. eithr in the 3rd or 4th year of study). See College Regulations, Appendix Five, for more details.

College owned houses

Some undergraduates will ballot for a room in a College owned house.  These rooms are usually in converted residential houses, off the main College site, but in the vicinity of Fitzwilliam College (Huntingdon Road area).  There are between four and seven rooms in each house, sharing kitchen and bathroom facilities (one or two of these rooms may be en suite).