Graduate Housing Renewal

The renewal window for graduate housing is now closed for Academic year 2024-2025.

In collaboration with campus stakeholders, Housing and Residential Services (HRS) has developed building-specific renewal policies that maintain renewal opportunities for current residents and preserve space for new graduate residents within select buildings. The policy takes into account housing stability and community-based living opportunities for new graduate students while aligning housing license agreements with academic program lengths.

One of the following actions is required by Tuesday, March 26, 2024, or you will automatically have your housing license agreement terminate on July 31, 2024.

Renewing your housing license for 2024-2025

If you are a fully registered graduate student who will remain actively enrolled at the Institute and eligible to renew your housing license agreement, follow these steps:

• Visit the Housing Portal
• After logging in using your MIT Touchstone credentials, click Forms
• Click on the Graduate Housing Renewal Form
• Complete all sections of the form and submit by Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

Residents who do not renew by Tuesday, March 26, 2024, will automatically forfeit their on-campus housing renewal and must move out by July 31, 2024.  If you do not renew your housing assignment by the stated deadline and are still interested in on-campus housing for 2024-2025, you can participate in the self-selection process within the Housing Portal (subject to housing availability).

applying to live in Graduate Junction for 2024-2025

If you intend to live in the new Graduate Junction residence next year, you can begin the application process through the American Campus Communities (ACC) website to be assigned a unit by the ACC team. Once you have signed your license with ACC:

• Visit the Housing Portal
• After logging in using your MIT Touchstone credentials, click Forms
• Click on the Graduate Housing Renewal Form
• Select Moving to Graduate Junction as the reason for your termination, complete the form, and submit by Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

MOVING TO A DIFFERENT BUILDING FOR 2024-2025

Residents who want to remain in on-campus housing but would like to switch to a different building or unit will need to participate in self-selection (subject to housing availability). If you are a current Warehouse, Sidney Pacific, or Ashdown resident and need to switch because of your license type, follow the directions in the relevant section below. Others should follow these steps:

• Visit the Housing Portal
• After logging in using your MIT Touchstone credentials, click Forms
• Click on the Graduate Housing Termination Request Form
• Complete all sections of the form and submit by Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
• Apply for self-selection  Between April 16 and April 30, 2024.
• Receive confirmation of your self-selection window
• Return to the Housing Portal during your self-selection window (Between May 2 and May 6, 2024) to select your new unit

Not renewing your license for 2024-2025

If you do not plan to renew your housing license agreement, please submit the housing termination request form no later than March 26, 2024. HRS captures this information to understand student departure dates, housing vacancies, and housing availability for the next academic year. To do so, follow these steps:

• Visit the Housing Portal
• After logging in using your MIT Touchstone credentials, click Forms
• Click on the link for the Graduate Housing Termination Request Form
  • Note: If you are a visitor, affiliate, postdoc, or cross-registered student, please complete the Visitor Termination Request Form
• Complete all sections of the form and submit by Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

If your move-out date changes from what you originally submitted, please send the updated date via email to graduatehousing@mit.edu at least 30 days before the new move-out date with the email subject “Move-out date change.” 

If you wish to return to on-campus graduate housing after terminating your housing license agreement and moving off campus, you will need to participate in the self-selection process.

Renewing a housing license for Ashdown House or Sidney-Pacific

Residents of Ashdown House or Sidney-Pacific receive a one-year renewable housing license agreement, which provides residents with the option to renew their agreement for a second consecutive year.

If you seek to renew your housing license agreement after your first year in MIT graduate housing, you can renew through the regular renewal process above.

If you are seeking to renew your housing license agreement after at least two years in MIT graduate housing, you need to participate in a housing lottery. To start the process, follow these steps:

• Complete the termination request form within the Housing Portal by Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Within the form, select a July 31 termination date and choose “Participating in Ashdown/Sidney Pacific Renewal Lottery” as your reason for termination.
• If a lottery is required, HRS will notify you of the results by Friday, April 14, 2024.
• If you’re unsuccessful at renewing your housing license agreement through the lottery process, or if space does not permit a lottery process, you will be given priority access to select an alternative on-campus housing assignment through the self-selection process (excluding Ashdown House, Sidney-Pacific, and The Warehouse) on Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

Renewing a housing license for the Warehouse

Given that the Warehouse is a first-year graduate living community, we are unable to renew current residents’ housing license agreements in the same building unless they are members of the resident assistant team.

Warehouse residents will receive priority access to select an alternative on-campus housing assignment through the self-selection process on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, before the general graduate housing selection process. To participate, select July 31 as your termination date and choose “Participating in Warehouse Priority Selection” as your reason for termination no later than Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Warehouse residents will receive follow-up guidance on how to start the priority self-selection process.

Renewal for Resident Assistants or Housing Officers

Ashdown House and Sidney-Pacific officers who have lived in MIT graduate housing for more than two years and Warehouse resident assistants cannot renew their housing assignment within the housing portal. The House Team from these communities will forward a list of officers and the appropriate housing assignments to HRS to add to the housing management system. HRS will share additional housing assignment information with confirmed officers in April.

Renewal for visitors, researchers, postdocs, affiliates, and cross-registered students

Licenses for visitors (researchers/postdocs/cross-registered students) in residence are for one year at a time and automatically expire on July 31, 2024. We ask that visiting residents complete the following steps if they are interested in remaining in on-campus housing for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Step 1: Submit a Housing Termination Request Form by Tuesday, March 26

• Visit the Housing Portal
• After logging in using your MIT Touchstone credentials, click Forms
• Click on the link for the Visitor Termination Request Form
• Complete each section of the form and select July 31, 2024, as your termination date unless you would like to choose an earlier date to move out).
• Within the form, ensure Visitor Renewal Interest is checked to request on-campus housing for the next academic year.
• Submit the completed form by Tuesday, March 26.

Step 2: If your current apartment is available after the self-selection process for MIT graduate students, HRS will inform you of your unit availability. You may then renew your housing assignment on May 21, 2024.

• Please visit the Housing Portal
• After logging into the portal using your MIT Touchstone credentials, click Forms
• Click on the Visitor Housing Renewal Form
• Complete all sections of the form and click submit

While we will make every effort to accommodate a renewal within your existing housing assignment, it cannot be guaranteed.

Step 3: If you are unable to renew your current assignment, you may participate in the self-selection process beginning on May 21, 2024.

• Visit the Housing Portal
• After logging into the portal using your MIT Touchstone credentials, click Forms
• Click on the Visitor Self-Selection Application
• Complete all sections, select your desired unit, and sign your housing license agreement