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We currently maintain approximately 4,400 on-campus beds. Due to the popularity of South Dakota State’s residence halls, demand for on-campus housing exceeds available space.

Students who are required to live on campus will receive priority in the assignment process. When occupancy limits are reached, students who graduated from high school three or more years ago will be placed on a waiting list. Students can check the most up-to-date status of their housing application, including availability for nonrequired students, through the Housing Portal. Housing and Residence Life will manage the waiting list and offer assignments if space becomes available. Students may choose to remove themselves from the waiting list, but doing so will result in the loss of their place and priority.

In order to achieve our goal, traditional first-year students are given assignment priority in traditional residence halls such as Abbott, Ben Reifel, Binnewies, Brown, Honors, Mathews, Pierson, Schultz, Thorne and Young Halls.

First-year students are followed in priority by those returning to campus housing for a second consecutive academic year, although Housing and Residence Life does not guarantee that all interested, current residential students can be accommodated in their primary preferences. Current residential students may also be eligible to move into our apartment communities. Current residential students have a priority deadline to reapply in early spring, after which transfer students and returning residential students receive priority over those who apply after the deadline.

Transfer and new nontraditional students are welcome to apply for on-campus housing. Students who are required by State Board policy to reside on campus will be housed on campus, but preferences are not guaranteed. However, every effort will be made to help students find a space in the hall of their choosing.

Housing and Residence Life is excited to welcome back those students who have lived in our residence halls successfully in prior semesters or years. Whether they left to travel abroad, complete an internship, take a year off, transfer to another school, etc., we are happy to have them join our community once again. Students fall into this category if they have been out of Housing and Residence Life for a semester or more and will be eligible to live in the same communities as current residential students if spaces remain after we have placed our current residential students and new transfer students if they meet the eligibility requirements for the desired residential area.

Students who choose to live off campus and commute for their first year and beyond may want to move into on-campus housing later in their academic career. These students are considered new, nontraditional students and are eligible for the same spaces as our current residential students. Should spaces remain after assigning our current residential students, new transfer students and returning residential students, we will be more than happy to assign current commuters to available vacancies at that time.

Graduate students are welcome to apply for available space, particularly in our upper division housing communities.