Accommodation
When you are choosing a university, the choice, quality, location and cost of accommodation on offer are important factors. We will help you find the right place to live, on or off campus, at affordable rents throughout your time at Surrey.
Guaranteed accommodation
All first-year postgraduate students (overseas fee and UK/EU fee) are guaranteed a place in University accommodation, provided they accept a place and pay the first instalment of programme fees by 14 August.
Applicants paying fees after 14 August continue to be offered accommodation, subject to availability, and we are normally able to offer accommodation throughout August and September.
Continuing full-time research postgraduates (overseas fee and UK/EU fee) are guaranteed a place in accommodation for up to the normal duration of their programme, provided they apply for a place by 1 February.
In addition, taught postgraduates on two-year programmes are guaranteed a place in accommodation for their second year, provided they apply by 1 February.
Accommodation for couples and families
Flats and houses are available on campus, at Hazel Farm and at Manor Park.
Please see the Accommodation Office web pages for more information.
Accommodation for students with disabilities
We offer specially adapted rooms for students with physical impairments. Please see the Accommodation Office website for more information.
Residential facilities
Our accommodation is arranged in groups of self-catered housing called Courts of Residence. The Courts have been designed to meet your needs and provide you with a living space of your own. All University student bedrooms have fast, unlimited, free broadband, and a telephone service is available.
To help with day-to-day living, there are modern laundrettes, a post office, bank, bookshop, grocery store and newsagent on the Stag Hill campus close to student residences. Large supermarkets and a halal grocery store are nearby and a weekly fruit and vegetable market is held on campus.
- Over 2300 rooms in the newest courts have en suite shower and toilet facilities
- All Manor Park accommodation has en suite facilities
- Groups of students share a kitchen–breakfast room
- All communal areas (kitchens, bathrooms, toilets and corridors) are non-smoking
- Most of the accommodation is mixed-sex, but we do reserve areas for those who prefer single-sex accommodation
Rooms to suit any budget
Accommodation at the University is reasonably priced. We offer low-cost duplex rooms, mid-range rents that compare with national averages, and even the rooms at the top end of our scale look affordable for those with a bit more cash to spend. For the 2008–09 session, rents ranged from £57 to £121 per week.
There is a variety of housing in the Guildford area let privately or through the University’s own Property Management Scheme. Rents start at about £70 per week and we have a range of letting periods.
Flexible payments
Rent can be paid either in lump sums per semester or monthly by direct debit, which you can set up online.
Applying for accommodation
Applications for a place in accommodation are made online. Postgraduate applicants will receive confirmation of the room they have been allocated by email during July, August or September. It is not possible to allocate postgraduates a room until programme fees are paid and they have formally accepted a place on the programme.
Further information
If you have any other queries, please visit our website or contact the Accommodation Office.
T: +44 (0)1483 682461
