One of Princeton's defining characteristics is its small, residential community that extends a wealth of academic and extracurricular opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Nearly all of the University's undergraduates and 70 percent of the graduate students live on campus. The University also offers housing and dining programs for faculty and staff.
Housing options available for undergraduates range from close-knit residential college communities to individual dormitories for juniors and seniors. For graduate students, dormitory-style rooms are available at the historic Graduate College and unfurnished apartments are offered in several complexes. With the inauguration of the University's four-year residential college system in fall 2007, upperclassmen and graduate students also have the opportunity to live in a residential college. Faculty and staff can rent from the 600 University-owned units near campus.
