A non-refundable deposit which secures your space in housing each year.  The deposit is applied toward the cost of your room. This deposit is NOT payable through your financial aid packages nor via the payment plans in which the University participates.

• How often do I pay this?
  The $250, non-refundable deposit is required once for the year that you intend to live on campus. If you are looking to move to campus for the first time in the Spring semester, a deposit is due at that time, and then would be due again in March if you intend to continue to live on campus in the fall and wish to participate in room selection.
• Is it refundable?
  This is a non-refundable deposit.
• When is it due?
  The Housing Deposit is due in March (a specific date is determined each year) for students already living on campus who wish to return in the fall.  Students who will be new to campus (new students, transfer students) should pay a deposit by May 1st to guarantee a space for campus for the fall.
• How do I pay my Housing Deposit?
  Housing Deposits may be paid using the following site:  www.wcsu.edu/deposit.   **Please keep in mind that after paying your housing deposit, you must wait at least 6 hours for it to process into the Housing Portal system before you can complete a housing application. **

WCSU offers all students the option of selecting gender neutral housing. Gender neutral housing refers to a housing option in which two or more students mutually agree to share a multiple-occupancy bedroom, suite, or apartment without regard to the gender of the occupants.

Gender-neutral housing is an option for any continuing student wishing to choose their roommate(s) regardless of gender, and live in rooms, suites and apartments without a gender designation. Only students who choose to live in gender-neutral assignments will be assigned to these spaces. Gender Neutral Housing is not exclusive to LGBTQ+ students. Housing & Residence Life will, however, work with transgender and non-binary students, including freshmen, on an individual basis to find suitable accommodations.

Students may select gender-neutral rooms, suites, and apartments if they have selected to participate in Gender-Neutral Housing when asked in their Student Housing Application. We encourage roommates to communicate with each other about their plans to avoid any confusion.

Until mid-August, all students are able to select their own rooms.  Here is a brief overview of what happens. in the order it must be completed.

• Student pays a Housing Deposit ($250, non–refundable) via www.wcsu.edu/deposit.  Following the deposit, there is a wait of 6 – 12 hours for the deposit information to transfer from the University Cashiers’ system to the Housing Portal.
• After the 6 – 12 hour wait, students may navigate to the Housing Portal, where they select the Housing Application that appears in the Applications and Forms section (left menu).  Complete and submit the application, making sure to fill in all questions marked with (*).
• Submit meningitis vaccine documentation (which was received within the preceding 5 years) to Health Services via their Health Portal. Generally, this takes a day to migrate from the Health Portal to the Housing Portal.
• Roommate Requests:  if there is someone students wish to live with, they may request them as a roommate IF both/all students have completed files (deposits, applications, meningitis vaccine information).  Roommate requests must be made and accepted before any person  in the group selects a room. The room selection system is designed to look for open rooms that will house both/all of the requested students when the first person in the group looks for a room, and will assign both/all of them who have requested each other if open space is available.
• If students have already selected a room and then request a roommate, the system is not designed to look to see if their room has an open space still available, and will not identify or hold the space for their requested roommate.  That space is available to any student looking for a room.
• Room Selection occurs at various times between April and August, and generally activates on the Housing Portal for the first time in late May for new students.  Students with a completed file will receive an email notice to their WCSU email that room selection is available a day or two before the selection process is activated.  The email will contain a date and time that the process opens, and a date and time when the process closes again. If students miss an active period, they’ll have other opportunities to make a room selection over the course of the summer, but please bear in mind that the longer they wait, the fewer their options are for a room in a location they desire.
• Dining (meal plan) selections can be made once the room selection is completed.  Students navigate on the Housing Portal back to the main page, and select the Dining Plans option. They will be shown only the meal plans available for the buildings they’ve selected, and should choose the one that represents their preferred option. (Not all meal plans are available in all buildings).

If it’s past the first week of August when a student’s file is complete, but they haven’t yet completed a room selection, Housing & Residence Life will most likely make an assignment for the student from the remaining available spaces.

It’s a little complicated, but usually, you choose your roommate.

If You Are Requesting A Roommate:

Before you can request your roommate, both you and your requested roommate must have complete housing files, meaning you have paid a deposit, you completed and submitted your housing application, and you submitted your meningitis vaccine information (received within the last 5 years) to Health Services.  If you are trying to request a roommate and do not see them listed when you type in their name in the roommate request area, it almost always means their housing file is missing information.

In order for your roommate request to be honored, you must make – and your requested roommate must accept – a roommate request in the Housing Portal before any of you select a room.  This is because the system for roommate requests is designed to look for spaces together when you do your room selection.  It cannot look for spaces together if one of you selected a space before the other person was requested.

 If you weren’t able to request your roommate and you selected your room with an open bed, there is still an opportunity to live with the person you want to live with but it’s significantly more difficult and gets more difficult as the summer goes on. 

If you find yourself here, the best option is to let your requested roommate know what room you’ve selected as soon as you can after choosing it and have them look for that room in the list of available rooms when they go to make their selection.  If  the other space in your room shows on their list, it means that it is available for them to select.  If it doesn’t show up, someone else has already selected the room.

It’s important to know that any space that’s open in your room when you choose it is open to ANY student who’s able to select rooms in that building.

Once you’ve selected a room, you’re assigned and will not be able to go back in to choose a different space.

If You Are Not Requesting a Roommate

You must have a completed housing file, meaning you have paid a deposit, completed and submitted your housing application, and submitted your meningitis vaccine information (received within the last 5 years) to Health Services.

When you select a room in the Housing Portal, you’ll be shown a list of available rooms that have open spaces in all the buildings you qualify to live in.  If the room you’re selecting has a roommate already assigned, once you’ve selected a room, you’ll be able to email your roommate to introduce yourself and start to get to know each other.

If your selected room has another open space, that space is open to ANY student who’s able to select rooms in that building.

Once you’ve selected a room, you’re assigned and will not be able to go back in to choose a different space.

All students living in on-campus housing are required to have a meal plan.

The Ultimate Dining plan is the required default meal plan for all students living on Midtown, but these students may opt to select the Platinum plan, which offers a different number of meals and FlexPoints.

Centennial residents are assigned to the Platinum plan, but may opt to select the Ultimate Dining plan, which offers a different number of meals and FlexPoints.

Pinney Hall and Grasso Hall are required to purchase the Blue meal plan, or may opt (for higher costs) to purchase the Platinum or Ultimate Dining plans.

Yes and no!

If you live in Grasso or Pinney, your kitchens come furnished with microwaves and refrigerators (as part of the full kitchen).

Centennial students are provided with a microwave in the kitchenette area, but no refrigerator.  Students may have refrigerators no larger than 3.6 cu. feet.  (This may also include rental Microfridge units. See information below.)

Students on midtown have microwaves available in floor lounges, but may not have them in their rooms UNLESS they are renting Microfridge units. These are Microwave/ Refrigerator/ Freezer units that have special power configurations that allow for the safe use of these appliances without interfering with power consumption. Please see more about these units here. Students may have refrigerators no larger than 3.6 cu. feet.

No. WCSU residence halls have been smoke-free since 2001, and State law now requires that all colleges and universities have smoke-free residence halls. 

Beginning in July 2023, the entire WCSU campus is smoke- and vape-free.

Occasionally, new assignments may be made after you’ve already received your assignment information.  Whenever a change is made, the department will notify you of the change.  These notices generally go out within a week of the change.

Other than these rare occasions, which are solely to meet the needs of the university and/or department, we will not make changes to assignments once they’ve been made.  Students who wish to change rooms or roommates may do so after the first two weeks of class, if space is available for the change to be made.  See your RD if you have questions when you get to campus.

If you’re not 21, you may not consume alcohol or be in a room in which it is present or being consumed. For a full explanation of the policy, please read the WCSU University Wide Alcohol Policyopens PDF file .  Underage students in the presence of alcohol, or those who provide alcohol to underage students, may be issued a citation by the WCSU Police under the auspices of State of Connecticut Public Act 06-112.  This citation carries a fine and the possible loss of driver’s license for the student(s) charged.

The vast majority of students here are assigned to standard double rooms. We do, however, have a handful of rooms that are over-sized and designed to accommodate three students. The fee for these rooms is slightly less. These rooms are not double rooms that have been converted to triples to accommodate overcrowded conditions.

Single rooms are scarce in most of our buildings. Singles other than those in  the Pinney 5-bed apartments) will be assigned for need as determined by the Department of Housing & Residence Life, in consultation with Health Services, the Counseling Center, AccessAbilities Services and/or your private physicians. If you believe you require such accommodations, please make touch with the appropriate office, and complete the Special Housing Accommodations form, located in the FORMS section of this website. General learning disabilities such as ADHD/ADD or issues like asthma are not generally considered as sufficient evidence of the need for a single room assignment.

Here is the proper addressing for mail and Amazon packages.  It is important to make sure Western Connecticut State University is in the address.

Student Mail and Packages:

Mail Services is located in the basement of the Midtown Student Center. It functions as a student post office for the receipt of letters and packages.

Mail is delivered directly to the residence halls, and then disbursed to student mailboxes by residence hall personnel.

All UPS, RPS, and FEDEX deliveries for students are delivered to Mail Services and held for student pickup.  Students will receive email notification when a package is being held for them at Mail Services.

Please have your WestConnect ID card available when picking up a package.  No packages will be released without the proper identification.

Only for Amazon orders:

Western Connecticut State University

Your First and Last Name – Residence Hall & Room Number

190 White Street

Danbury, CT 06810

For all other mail and packages:

Western Connecticut State University

Your First and Last Name – Residence Hall & Room Number

181 White Street

Danbury, CT 0810

Mattresses are regular twin sized mattresses.

What about a waterbed? 
Waterbeds are not permitted.

Can I bring my own bed and/or mattress?
Fire code laws do not allow for students to supply their own mattresses or beds.

Each room on campus comes with a bed, desk, desk chair, dresser, and wardrobe or closet. Rooms all have overhead lights. Basic cable TV service (no special channels) is provided in each room. Internet can also be accessed through each room on campus, through wired or wireless access.  All buildings have a wireless printer available to students as well.

Phone service is no longer provided in residence hall rooms at WCSU.  House phones and emergency phones are located throughout the building and campus.  Students are strongly encouraged to have a personal cell phone.

Once rooms have been selected, room changes will generally not be made (other than for departmental needs) until after the second week of classes. If you believe you have a problem, do not wait to deal with it, but speak to your Resident Assistant or Resident Director immediately.

Early move-in is sometimes possible for students who:  are athletes on a recognized sports team, have an academic-based internship or class, live more than 5 hours from campus, are employed by a campus office, are an international student, or have a special AccessAbility request.  Forms are generally available in the Housing Portal about 1 month before move-in, and must be approved by the HRL office before you may plan to move in.  

There is a $45/night charge for early arrival, and the deadline for application for Fall 24 is August 16th.

We fortunately have very good fire suppression and alarm systems throughout our campus. Each building is fully sprinkled, and has state of the art fire annunciation equipment. The Danbury Fire Department is contacted immediately when an alarm is sounded, regardless of reason.

Our apartment-style halls are designed to offer nearly independent living. Therefore, students living in these buildings are required to care for (clean) their own apartments (including the bathrooms) following move-in.  Students should provide cleaning tools and supplies for their own apartments, such as vacuums, brooms, spray cleaners, etc. in order to keep them clean.