Quick Question about Med School housing

[Moxess]

This is probably a stupid question, but do most med schools offer on-campus housing? Is there a certain kind of school that does it?

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[tch001]

This is probably a stupid question, but do most med schools offer on-campus housing? Is there a certain kind of school that does it?

Most med schools do not offer on campus housing. The ones that do are usually located in big cities where it would be very hard for students to find their own affordable housing (NYU, Columbia, AECOM, and Harvard come to mind). When on campus housing is offered, it is usually dorms (ick!).

 

[babel]

Other schools that do are WashU, Yale, Johns Hopkins, and UCLA (kinda on the UCLA thing - they have grad student housing just off campus, just a few blocks away). I agree with the previous poster - generally, I don't think it's all that common.

 

[Darjeeling]

UC Irvine and University of Rochester too.... apartments not dorms.
Columbia, Pittsburg and Ohio State (?) offer dorms. I agree, ick.

 

[Moxess]

Oh. Well that's good to know. Thanks.

 

[drblueshades]

The Wash U housing is actually pretty nice, from what I remember from interview/revisit days. As for Columbia, they have University-owned apartments ("the Towers") that are actually quite attractive, and extremely affordable. However, you either need to live in Bard Hall (a dorm) for a year first or be partnered in order to get a Towers apartment.

 

[biomama]

utsw has medpark apts and they also have cityville? the 2 bedroom comes out to ~$ 550 per month if you have a room mate

 

[Anastasis]

Ut-Houston runs apartment style housing. It's open to all students in the TMC (ie. UT-Houston, Baylor and MDAnderson)

http://ae.uth.tmc.edu/housing/index.html

 

[Critical Mass]

Is there a certain kind of school that does it?

The ones that want to make money off of medical students with student loan budgets. Seriously, the apartments on campus where I am are a complete ripoff, but they know that they can get away with it by having it charged to your student account, i.e. snare your semester housing in one swift check. Furthermore, the draw of the school keeps students from investigating what housing should cost in area (close to crime and away from commonly-needed businesses).

 

[deleted77919]

Emory has very nice (but impossible to get into) grad student housing. USC has dorms (no one lives in them). Almost everyone lives in dorms or the apts across the street here at NYU.