FAQs: Housing Information

Exchange students are strongly advised to live in residence halls during the entire period of their study at UNT. All students can be accommodated in the halls, and usually in those reserved for third and fourth year students. All rooms are air-conditioned and double-occupancy, and are equipped with twin beds, closets, desks, and telephones. Most rooms also have in-room sinks and cable TV hookups. Some rooms share a private lavatory and shower with the adjacent room and some have communal lavatories and showers on the wing.

We recommend these choices of halls, due to their central location: Crumley, Kerr, Maple, Bruce,Clark.

Please note that the UNT Housing Contract is a legal document, and once you sign it, you are committing yourself to live in the UNT halls for the selected period: Fall and Spring semesters or Spring or Fall semester only.

Campus dormitories are closed for four days during the fall semester at Thanksgiving, for three weeks at Christmas and New Year's, and for one week at Spring Break in mid-March. (One dormitory may remain open during these holiday periods, but cafeteria service is not available.

Students making payments at UNT for accommodations are asked to make payments according to the schedule published by the Housing Office. The schedule provides for an immediate payment of $300 for a damage deposit and first payment upon arrival, and two payments each semester. Deadline dates and amounts will be discussed during an orientation session.

Your roommate will be another UNT student, likely a student from Texas! You will not be placed with a student who smokes unless you indicate your willingness on the yellow housing contract card included with this information. U.S. students typically furnish their rooms with televisions and refrigerators, and occasionally with microwave ovens and telephone answering machines. Most UNT students also have cars for trips home or to Dallas for weekend fun.

Students may bring their own linen, or purchase new bed sheets, pillow and pillowcase from the SAC. Students are responsible for other personal items like towels, blankets, etc. but a shopping trip is arranged during the first few days after students arrive.

Coin-operated laundry facilities are available in each dormitory.

Exchange students are permitted to live off-campus in the neighborhoods adjacent to campus, but it is extremely difficult to find such private housing before the Fall or Spring semesters begin. In addition, off-campus living can be significantly more expensive since students will have to provide deposits for electricity and other municipal services, for telephone usage and other "start-up" costs, and may need to purchase or lease a car, which would make life off campus even more expensive!

If a student decides to live off-campus rather than in a residence halls, he or she must notify the Study Abroad Center of that decision and plan to come to Denton up to one week earlier in order to search for the desired accommodations. Study Abroad Center personnel are unable to assist the student in this search or in any negotiations with the leasing agent or owner of private accommodations.

Under most exchange agreements, the exchange student pays his/her own UNT meal costs for either the 5 day (15-meal) or 7 day (20-meal without Sunday supper) cafeteria plan at a cost of approximately $2405 (for the 5 day plan) or $2562 (for the 7 day plan) per semester for both room and board. The only exception is at College Inn, where most rooms are self-catering. Please note that College Inn is on a far edge of campus!

Cafeterias are located in Bruce, Clark, Kerr, Maple, and West Halls. Vegetarian fare is available in Bruce Cafeteria.

Having paid for a meal plan, you may choose from any of the cafeterias and may eat all you want.