Housing and Residential Programming

Residence within designated Honors College housing on campus is entirely optional for all honors students.

Throughout a student's entire period of enrollment, Honors College students have the opportunity to live in special honors cohort housing on the five campuses in New Brunswick and Piscataway: College Avenue, Busch, Livingston, Douglass, and G.H. Cook. This arrangement allows students to reside among and with a cohort of fellow honors students. Typically, students choose to live on the campus where the majority of their major coursework is based, but students can live in any campus honors community of their choosing. All Honors housing is restricted to Honors students, so roommates must also be Honors students.

Honors College students are given the opportunity to participate in the full-spectrum of our learning-living community by choosing to live in the dedicated housing of the Honors College community, where they will live alongside other honors students as well as dedicated resident assistants (RAs), Honors community mentors in residence (upper-level students), and Residential Faculty Fellows (in certain, designated residence halls). These designated residence areas will engage in enriched and enhanced programming, provide dedicated workshops and information sessions, and provide structured social and extra-curricular activities.

Students who choose to live elsewhere (including non-honors Rutgers housing) are assigned to our non-resident and commuter cohorts for purposes of also participating in our co- and extracurricular as well as our social programming and student development opportunities.

The Honors College will announce which halls are designated for assignment and will be considered Honors Housing each February for the following year.