Eligibility

To be eligible to renew your same unit, you must:

  • Be enrolled as a full-time, degree-seeking graduate student for the Fall 2025 semester.
  • Only the main occupant is eligible to renew the Graduate Residence License Agreement and select the same unit. Additional Occupants are not eligible to take over the agreement at any point.
  • Peabody residents: Please watch for upcoming communications specific to your housing process.

Please note: Returning residents can only renew their current unit. We do not allow switching to a different unit between agreement terms.

Steps To Renew

Once the application is open, current Charles River Campus (CRC) graduate housing residents who want to continue living on campus for another year, will follow these steps to complete the CRC Graduate Housing Application through the Graduate Housing Portal:

  1. Submit a nonrefundable $500 Housing Guarantee Payment using a credit card or a US bank account.
  2. Complete all sections of the application in the portal.
  3. Select your same unit.
  4. Electronically sign the Graduate Residence License Agreement.

After successfully completing the application, you will see your assignment details on the “Application Status” page in the CRC Graduate Housing Application.

For guidance, you can view a Returning CRC Resident Application Walkthrough here.

Please Note: Availability of graduate housing buildings is subject to change.

Charges

If you successfully renew your housing, you will receive two charges for the month of July:

  1. The first charge will be half of the 2024-2025 term session monthly rate (posted in late June).
  2. The second charge will be half of the 2025-2026 term session monthly rate (posted in mid July).

Policies

The Graduate Residence License Agreement is binding through the term session end date of July 15, 2026. Even if you graduate after the Fall 2025 semester, you remain responsible for fulfilling the terms of your agreement until its end date.

You can only be released from your agreement if you withdraw from the university or take a leave of absence.

Please note that the Graduate Residence License Agreement cannot be transferred or reassigned by the student at any time.

Procedures

You will not need to move-out at any point between agreement terms. Your current agreement for the 2024-2025 term session will end on July 15, 2025, and your new agreement will begin on July 16, 2025.

If you wish to add additional occupants (for eligible units), they will not be able to move-in until the new agreement start date of July 16, 2025. You can pick up their keys on their behalf any time after the agreement start date.