The Residential Requirement, established by the Board of Trust in 1959, states that “All unmarried undergraduate students are required to live in residence halls on campus during the academic year, May session, and summer sessions. Authorization to live elsewhere is granted at the discretion of the Director of Housing Assignments and Operations in special situations, or when space is unavailable on campus.”
Living in and engaging with an on-campus residential community is regarded as an integral part of a Vanderbilt undergraduate education and, to that end, Housing and Residential Experience provides this critical opportunity to as many undergraduate students as possible.
In general, first-year students are housed separately from upper-division students. Only under extreme circumstances when there is insufficient space in the designated first-year student housing system or in special situations, first-year students may be housed with upper-division students. All undergraduate housing is overseen by Housing and Residential Experience.