Carnegie Mellon University

The Office of Housing Services offers traditional single-gender residence halls, co-educational residence halls, suites, apartments, houses, fraternity and sorority houses, and special interest housing. For the environmentally minded, New House is the Silver LEED certified residence hall on campus, constructed using green practices. First-year undergraduate students are required to live on campus and housing is guaranteed for four years. Nearly 75 percent of students remain on campus throughout their undergraduate experience. Housing and Dining Services is committed to providing quality accommodations and food service for the Carnegie Mellon community. University housing will be smoke-free, except for Webster Hall and Fairfax Apartments. Currently there are designated resident hall floors that offer smoke-free living; a particularly desirable alternative for living options in the university housing system. Housing Services provides each resident with a bed, desk, chair, bookshelf, dresser and closet or wardrobe. Each room has window coverings; some living areas also have floor coverings. Residents supply such items as pillows, bed linens, bedspreads, curtains, area rugs, etc. Residential room rates include utilities, maintenance, basic cable service, Ethernet or broadband Internet and a telephone connection in each accommodation. Residents pay separately for room and public area damages, premium cable channel service, and telephone usage. University residences are divided into three categories at Carnegie Mellon: rooms, apartments and houses.