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Welcome to Student Affairs

Live in the Colleges

The campus offers guaranteed housing to all new, single undergraduate students who enter in fall quarter. The undergraduate residential colleges are at the heart of the UC Santa Cruz experience. With convenient access to academic, recreational, dining, and social facilities (e.g. College Ten) and student services, about 45 percent of single undergraduate students live in the colleges.

College residence halls have shared rooms and a limited number of private rooms (e.g. Cowell and Porter Colleges), as well as common lounge areas and bathrooms. College apartments also have various combinations of shared and private bedrooms, along with kitchen, bathroom, and living spaces. Many living areas offer themes or accomodate certain lifestyles or preferences.




Live On- or Off-Campus

In addition to the colleges, several other facilities on and off campus are available for student housing including The Village, the University Town Center and the University Inn and Conference Center. Specialty housing also exists for graduate students, students with families students with RVs, and faculty.

The Community Rentals Office provide listing and resources for students seeking off-campus housing.

For more info see Campus Housing




Make Yourself at Home

Dining Services offers a wide choice of meal plans and a wide variety of nutritious food (see Weekly Menus). You may use your meal card at any of the seven college dining halls on campus, as well as the UCSC Inn dining hall in downtown Santa Cruz.

Child Care Services offers several campus child care programs for children of students, faculty, and staff.

ResNet provides broadband in-room data lines to student residence areas so that students can connect to the internet.







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