Why Should You Live On-Campus?!?

Here at Pacific University, we love having our students live on campus. We make housing not only available, but guaranteed for four years. It is required for students to be on campus for the first two years of attendance, and it is encouraged that students spend all four as residents on campus. In fact, it is quite common to see seniors living on campus and loving it!

Some good reasons to live on campus:

• ·         More involvement – When living on campus, you are being dropped right into the action. You are less than 10 minutes away from any event, game, speaker, or class. When you can hear music playing in the quad and look out your window to see students playing volleyball or just hanging out, you are much more likely to go out and join unlike those who may not even know that anything is going on because they are living off campus.
• ·         Community – Simply walking out of your room will provide an opportunity to get involved due to the fact that there is always something going on in a residence hall. The RAs (Residence Assistants) are there to make life more enjoyable for their students. Things such as ping pong tournaments, pancake parties, and haunted houses around Halloween time are not unusual to see. The RAs try to host an event at least once a month, and they have office hours in the lobby of their respective residence halls at least once a week each.
• ·         Less Financial Stress! – Students who live off campus have to account for paying monthly rent, a security deposit, utilities, furnishing their apartment/house, laundry, and repairs. When you live on campus, your room and board is payed as a package with your tuition, so no monthly fees. Utilities, laundry, furniture, appliances (in apartment style dorms), and repairs to the room (i.e. broken oven, dead lightbulbs) are all included. With less things to worry about in terms of your living situation, students are able to keep their focus on school and other more important factors of their life.

The on campus experience is catered to students. When on campus, you can truly experience the full benefits of a university that looks out for its students. Off campus living is something that everyone will experience once graduated from school, so why rush the process and add more real world stress and pressure to your plate prematurely?

For more information on housing, click on the link below:

https://www.pacificu.edu/housingdining

For more information on residence halls, click the link below:

https://www.pacificu.edu/housingdining/housing/residence-halls

For more information on residence life, click the link below:

https://www.pacificu.edu/housingdining/residence-life