Where to Live

Dining, roommates, residence halls. . . college life at its best.

Life on Union's campus is full of options, including where you choose to call home. There are residence halls with apartment-style setups. Or you may choose to live in a Theme House or a Minerva House, where ideas are exchanged and intellectual discussions abound with others who share your passions.

U Journey is Union College's comprehensive framework for holistic growth, expanding beyond classrooms. Whether in residence halls, sororities, fraternities, Minerva or Theme Houses, we nurture well-being, decision-making, collaboration and belonging.

Life on Union's campus is full of options, including where you choose to call home. There are residence halls with apartment-style setups. Or you may choose to live in a Theme House or a Minerva House, where ideas are exchanged and intellectual discussions abound with others who share your passions.


Residence halls

In your first year at Union, you'll be assigned a roommate and a residence hall—Fox House, Richmond House, or West College—based on your preference for your first-year preceptorial, a cornerstone of the Union curriculum. Residential Life strives to fulfill your room style preference (corridor or suite) and provide a tranquil, study-oriented environment for those seeking a peaceful living space. All our living arrangements aim to nurture a strong community spirit and offer a range of amenities, including TV cable hookup, telephone, and internet network connections.

After your first year, housing will be determined through a lottery system based on seniority, and you’ll be able to select your roommate.

Additional housing:


An exterior view of Maker House

UPPERCLASS HOUSING

Theme Houses

Are you interested in arts, technology or political discourse? Joining your classmates in volunteer work? Promoting literature, mindfulness, diversity or sustainability?

If so, consider Union's theme houses, unique on-and off-campus residences where like-minded upper-class students live together for the purpose of embracing and promoting a common theme.


UPPERCLASS HOUSING

College Park neighborhood apartments

Since the late 1990s, Union has been renovating these unique turn-of-the-century homes, situated just across the street from campus, into student apartment-style living. The latest addition to this neighborhood is the Garnet Commons—a new three-story, 38,420 square-foot apartment-style residence.

An exterior view of Garnet Commons

The entrance to Green House, one of the seven Minerva Houses on campus.

UPPERCLASS HOUSING

Minerva Houses

Every student and faculty member is a part of one of the seven Minerva Houses, which unite the campus community through numerous events annually. Students have access to a substantial programming budget, utilizing it to organize a wide array of activities. The upper floors of all Minerva Houses feature residence halls that provide unique accommodations for over 240 upper-class students.


UPPERCLASS HOUSING

Fraternity and Sorority residences

Many of Union's Greek organizations have residences on campus that are owned by the College. Room and board are paid through the College, similar to the other residence halls.

Each Greek house is unique in style and accommodations, some being attached to residence halls while others are stand-alone buildings.

Two sorority sisters participating in all the pledge week excitement.