Housing Selection
Saint Louis University requires undergraduate students to live in residence halls or apartments on campus for their first four semesters.
Many juniors, seniors and graduate students also choose to live at SLU and for good reason — it gives you a chance to develop lifelong friendships with students from across the country and around the globe. All housing contracts and payments are paperless and can be viewed and completed online through mySLU.
Freshman Housing
If you are a first-time, first-year student at SLU, you are guaranteed housing, but it will not be assigned until your enrollment deposit is paid and your housing contract is on file.
The priority deadline for new student housing at SLU is May 1.
Your enrollment deposit confirms your enrollment at Saint Louis University. Once it has been processed, you can access the housing contract.
Housing for new students is assigned based on the date you submit your contract. Housing contracts open on Feb. 3.
Find the "2025-2026 New Student Contract" in the ERezLife app in your mySLU.
Roommate requests are made by entering your requested roommate's information through Roomiez on ERezLife. Your roommate must also confirm the request through Roomiez.
You will receive your housing assignment by July 10 at your SLU email address.
Questions or concerns? Contact the Department of Housing and Residence Life at 314-977-2811 or reslife@slu.edu.
Current Student Housing
2025-2026 Housing Contract Information Sessions
We are launching a new housing software, eRezlife, for the 2025-2026 Housing Selection Process! For more details on how to access eRezlife, housing contracts, Renew Your Apartment, and Self-Selection, join us for an information session or stop by our table in the Busch Student Center on the following dates:
Drop by our table in the Busch Student Center second-floor lobby:
- 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Feb. 4, 2025
- 10 a.m. - noon, Feb. 6, 2025
- 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Feb. 12, 2025
Information sessions in the Busch Student Center, Room 256:
- Noon -1 p.m, Feb. 7, 2025
- 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Feb. 10, 2025
A webinar information session will be available on Feb. 13, 2025, from 11 a.m.- noon CST, for any students studying abroad or unable to attend an in-person session. Instructions for this webinar will be shared via email.
Rising Sophomores
Housing contracts for rising sophomores open on March 3. Rising sophomores must complete a housing contract and deposit for the following year by March 14. Rising sophomores will be assigned using their housing contract preferences and receive their 2025-2026 housing assignment via SLU email by March 28.
Assignments will not be made in order of contract submission and will be completed in entirely random order. This ensures fairness throughout the process. Therefore, there is no rush to submit your housing contract. Just submit between March 3-14 to be assigned in the first round of assignments. Any contract submissions after March 14 will be assigned on a rolling basis.
Rising Juniors, Seniors and Graduate Students
Rising juniors, seniors and graduate students can complete their housing contract for the next year as early as Feb. 3 and choose a space through the Renew Your Apartment or the Online Selection processes. Current on-campus apartment residents can choose to stay in the same apartment for the next year through the Renew Your Apartment process. Housing contracts must be submitted before you can participate. Restrictions on this process apply.
Sign-up for the Renew Your Apartment process will occur Feb. 3-17. Students going through this process must be able to fill their entire space with other rising junior or senior students. Rising sophomores are not eligible to be pulled in through Renew Your Apartment.
If you are unable or do not wish to participate in the "Renew your Apartment" process, there will be an online selection process on Feb. 24-28, when you will select your space online.
More detailed information will be released about each process for rising sophomores and non-residency-required students closer to the process dates.
Students who are not residency-required have 30 days from their housing contract submission date to cancel their housing contract. When canceling within 30 days, a $200 cancellation fee will be applied. Cancellations outside of the 30 days will not be accepted. Written documentation must be sent to reslife@slu.edu within 30 days to cancel.
Housing Exemption
If you live with your parents or guardians within a 25-mile radius of campus, are over 21, are married or have children, and have not yet signed a housing contract for the year, you may be eligible for an exemption to the housing requirement.
Exemptions must be requested by June 1 for new students and May 1 for current students, and are not guaranteed. You will receive an official decision in writing from the housing office.