Student Housing

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KU Student Housing is all about helping students achieve more, dream more, be more. We create ways to enhance the college experience and ensure success: academic, social, financial. Student Housing also actively recruits at Oshkosh Placement Exchange and The Placement Exchange.

To apply, submit letter of application outlining interest and relevant experience, resume, three references, and a copy of your transcript (even if it's unofficial) to: Graduate Staff Recruitment Committee, KU Student Housing, 422 West 11th Street, Suite DSH, Lawrence, KS 66045 or dshrecruit@ku.edu. Any employment is contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check.

Student Housing has three types of living options: residence halls, scholarship halls, and apartment living. All options provide residents with a friendly and academic environment, opportunities for community involvement, wireless internet and access to the campus computing network, cable television, free laundry and a trained and engaging staff.


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More than $200,000 in annual scholarships to returning residents
Academic success: More than 94 percent of first-time, full-time freshmen in student housing enroll for the next semester
5,100 residents choose student housing each year
Residence hall rates are almost $2,000 less per year than the national average for public schools
— College Board
$4 million alumni gift funded Krehbiel Scholarship Hall
Options include suites, private bedroom with shared bath, two-person rooms, scholarship halls, and apartments
Oswald and Self residence halls opened in 2015
One bill covers all costs: room, food, utilities, and wireless Internet
One of 34 U.S. public institutions in the prestigious Association of American Universities
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