Graduate Students

Graduate Student Housing Registration

Spring 2026 Housing Registration

Campus Living & Residential Education (CLRE) at the George Washington University (GW) considers anyone who has graduated with a 4-year college degree and who is now taking courses at a graduate level beyond that to be a Graduate Student.

CLRE has enough spaces to welcome graduate students to apply for GW on-campus housing, so take advantage of all of these amazing perks and register today!

A Peaceful Sanctuary for Your Studies
Access to Amenities That Matter
The Unbeatable Value and Rates
A Seamless Commute

Spring 2026 graduate student housing registration is available now in the GW Home Portal. Graduate students should receive communication from CLRE with more instructions on how to complete their Housing Registration.

The priority deadline to complete your Spring Housing Registration is Friday, Dec. 5, 2025.

Spring 2026 Housing Registration FAQs

How do I register for housing?

Follow these easy steps to register for Spring 2026 Housing:

Log into your GW Home Portal with your GW UserID and click on the Housing Registration button.
Read the GW Housing License Agreement and sign the document. You are required to sign in order to live on campus.
Complete the questions regarding your personal living preferences. This helps us assign you to a room with peers who have similar living styles as you. Think about how your sleep schedule, study habits, or any other key living factors may help you succeed with roommates.
Indicate your preference for room size, among 2-person, 3-person, 4-person, and 5-person rooms. Because of limited spring room availability, we are unable to accommodate requests for single rooms.

Where will I end up living as a graduate student in Spring 2026?

As a graduate student applying for on-campus housing, you will be assigned to live in an upper-class residence hall on the Foggy Bottom campus. These options include:

1959 E Street
The Dakota
District House
Mark Shenkman Hall
South Hall

I have a preferred roommate/ know someone I want to live with, can I request them to be my roommate?

If you know another GW student living in on-campus housing who you would like to live with, you will be able to let us know of any preferred roommates by filling out the Roommate Request field in the GW Home Portal.

While we cannot 100% guarantee anything, our top priority, even more than guaranteeing your top room preferences, is to keep any verified roommate groups together.

2026-2027 Academic Year Graduate Student Housing Registration

The timeline for Fall 2026 Graduate Student Housing Registration will depend on housing availability after undergraduate housing registration. Graduate students should check their email consistently for instructions on how and when to complete their Housing Registration. More information will be provided later in the Spring 2026 semester.

Once Graduate Housing Registration opens, graduate students planning to live in on-campus housing for the next academic year will have two weeks to complete their Housing Registration in the GW Home Portal.

Our team is extremely excited to welcome graduate students to our community. Our core mission is to build positive communities that empower our students to grow and develop as they engage in unique challenges and possibilities throughout their undergraduate experience. Our residence halls are a focal point of our institution's mission to further human well-being by offering a space of cultural and intellectual diversity that is the foundation for the exploration of new ideas.

All housing processes happen via a student's Campus Living GW Home Portal, which requires a student to claim a GW email address and UserID to log in.

Registration Steps

Review Upperclass Residence Halls, Costs, and Dining Plans

During the 2026-2027 academic year, GW has 5 upperclass-only residence halls on our Foggy Bottom Campus:

Foggy Bottom Campus

1959 E Street
The Dakota
District House
Mark Shenkman Hall
South Hall

Review 2026-2027 housing costs before beginning the housing registration process (they will be published soon). All students who live in a GW residence hall are required to have a dining plan and students should review the dining plan that upperclass students are required to have. Dining plans will be selected during housing registration.

All housing and dining costs are placed on a student's eBill, similar to tuition and other fees.

If desired, register with Disability Support Services (DSS) to Request a Housing Accommodation.

Residential living is central to the learning environment for many GW students. Students with specific disability-related needs may request housing accommodations. If approved for a housing accommodation that we can meet, a student will be placed into the type of room that meets the specific housing accommodation.

Students who feel that they need a housing accommodation must register with GW Disability Support Services (DSS). Housing accommodations are reviewed by Disability Support Services, and if approved, sent to Campus Living & Residential Education. The CLRE team then uses the housing accommodation to place a student in a room that meets the accommodation.

Prepare for life with a Roommate

Almost all students who live in GW residence halls have roommates: someone who they share a bedroom or other living space with. Beginning to prepare for life with a roommate is an important step in the transition to becoming a GW student. Students and families should begin thinking about the following topics of shared living:

Number of desired roommates (sharing a bedroom) and suitemates (sharing bathrooms)
Bathroom types:
- private (bathroom inside a room used by only those who live in that room)
- adjoined (bathroom shared between two double rooms)
- community (bathroom used by the entire floor, with distinct men's and women's bathrooms per floor)
- common, private bathroom suites (shared gender-inclusive bathroom suites used by entire floor; multiple suites per floor with shared sink area and private, secure rooms with a toilet, sink, and shower; Thurston Hall only)
Sleep schedules
Desired use of the room (including studying, having friends over, noise, or other use)
Desired level of room cleanliness
Resolving differences in personal living preferences with roommates
Any other important considerations around shared living environments

Students are assigned roommates through a variety of methods:

Students find each other and mutually agree to live with one another. Students may identify any other transfer student to live with, regardless of sex or gender, or
Students are automatically assigned one or more roommates of a similar sex. This roommate assignment used personal living preferences, noted in a student's housing registration, to match them up with students who may have similar living styles or preferences, or
Students who desire to live with any other student, regardless of sex or gender, may participate in our in Gender Inclusive Housing group. A student who desires this will note that in their housing registration and will be placed into a pool of students who may be assigned to live with one another without regard to a roommate's sex or gender. Personal living preferences will be used to match up roommates with others. Students who participate in this Gender Inclusive Housing group should be welcoming and affirming of all student gender identities, sexual orientation, or other identities

Register for Graduate Student Housing

Housing registration will begin via a student's GW Home Portal. We encourage all students to take their time and be thoughtful in their housing registration, in which a student will:

If desired, indicate a desire to live with other specific people as roommates by creating a roommate group
- Each student receives a number, called their GWID, which can be shared with other students to formally create and join roommate groups. Each student's GWID can be found on their GW Home Portal.
Indicate personal living preferences, through a series of Yes/No questions, regarding important topics such as sleep schedules, use of rooms, cleanliness, and more. These answers will be used to assign students with roommates, if they don't request specific other people
Sign a 2026-2027 Housing License Agreement, the agreement that outlines what you agree to in order to live in a GW residence hall
Update contact information that Campus Living & Residential Education need to have on record for students and their emergency contacts

Upon successful registration, a graduate student will be able to edit their housing registration as many times as desired assigned to a room:

sending invitations to other students to join a roommate group
accepting invitations to join another student's roommate group
adjusting the ranking of hall and room types
adjusting answers to personal living preference questions

Receive Housing Assignment

Over the summer, all graduate students who register for housing will receive their specific housing assignment, including the residence hall, room number, and information about any specific roommates (if applicable). The CLRE team will release housing assignments on a rolling basis.

Housing Cancellation Policies

If you change your mind about living on-campus, graduate students may cancel their housing in order to live off-campus, however, there is a deadline to do so.
Graduate students may cancel their housing without a fee for up to 5 days after receiving their housing assignment.
More information and specifics about cancellation policies and fees will be shared later in the Spring 2026 semester.

Graduate Student Housing Registration FAQs

Who can I create a roommate group with as a graduate student?

While we cannot 100% guarantee anything, our top priority, even more than guaranteeing your top room preferences, is to keep any verified roommate groups together.

Where will I live as a graduate student?

As a graduate student applying for on-campus housing, you will be assigned to live in an upper-class residence hall on the Foggy Bottom campus. These options include:

1959 E Street
The Dakota
District House
Mark Shenkman Hall
South Hall

When will I receive my 2026-2027 housing assignment?

Graduate students will receive their academic year housing assignment sometime over Summer 2026.

What happens if I registered to live on campus as a graduate student but now no longer want to?

If you change your mind about living on-campus, graduate students may cancel their housing in order to live off-campus, however, there is a deadline to do so.

Graduate students may cancel their housing without a fee for up to 5 days after receiving their housing assignment.

More information and specifics about cancellation policies and fees will be shared later in the Spring 2026 semester.