Residency Requirement
We believe your residential experience at Furman is part of your education. For that reason, we have a four-year residency requirement. Students may apply for an exemption under certain conditions.
Policies and Procedures
Rising fifth-year students can be assigned to on-campus housing by request if spaces are available. Rising fifth-year students will only be assigned to on-campus housing after all new and returning students have been placed.
Other students must meet the following criteria to live off-campus:
- Commute to campus by living with your parents or legal guardians at their permanent, full-time, Greenville area address.
- Married students or students who will get married during the upcoming academic year.
- Have a financial or medical situation that requires off-campus accommodations.
- Students with a dependent.
If you would like to request an off-campus exemption for one of the aforementioned reasons, please email HousingandResidenceLife@Furman.Edu
The following students are ineligible for on-campus housing and will not be assigned to live-on campus:
- Enrolled as a graduate student.
- Non-traditional students.
Students living in North Village are given the opportunity to retain their current apartment for the upcoming year if the following conditions are met prior to the Housing Lottery:
- Names of four eligible students are submitted on the request form by the designated deadline.
- All four residents must be rising third- or fourth-year students.
- All four residents must participate in the student intentions process by the established deadline.
- No student listed on the request is studying away during the fall semester unless the student agrees to pay 75 percent of the housing rate to reserve the assignment.
- The apartment being requested is not the Resident Assistant’s apartment.
The University permits students of the same gender to live in on-campus housing together. Students are assigned based on their gender identity as reported to Enrollment Services. Housing and Residence Life will assist with residential assignments on a case by case basis within the University’s assignment processes.
Each year, the Housing and Residence Life Office will have approximately 60-80 students on its waiting list for student housing. Our office will assign rooms to these students in August after we are able to determine which students are not returning the University.
Students who have a vacant space in their room or apartment may be assigned a roommate at any time. Under certain circumstances, students may be required to move into another room so that the needs of students desiring to live together may be accommodated. Students with vacant spaces in their room or apartment may request a specific roommate during designated periods throughout the year to prevent having to change rooms or being assigned a roommate they do not know. Housing and Residence Life will make every effort to notify students in advance if any changes will be taking place concerning their rooming situation. Please be aware, however, that it may be necessary for our office to make last-minute change that may not allow much advance notice.