Residence Life

Muskingum’s living options range from traditional residence halls, sorority, fraternity and social club houses to Lakeside houses, and townhouses.

On the East and West campus hills you’ll find housing with newly furnished lounges, computer labs, and laundry facilities. Each of our six traditional residence halls has a personality of its own - with the layouts, furniture, and building styles differing from the next. All of our traditional halls are outfitted with Proximity Access Card readers, permitting only the residents assigned to the building to access them with their student ID cards.

After your first year, you may want to consider living in some of our alternative housing options. Located on Lakeside Drive on the east side of campus, students can apply to live with friends in our Lakeside houses. Located near the softball field on the west side of campus, students can apply to live in our Townhouses, a very independent living option. These alternative housing options are not outfitted with the Proximity Access Card reading system currently.

Regardless of where you live, you’ll find residential life at Muskingum is more than just a place to live. All of our facilities provide the chance to belong to a community within the larger campus. You’ll quickly feel right at home – and if you’re looking for someone to share a late-night pizza, compare notes, or take an early morning jog around the track, you won’t have to go far!

Housing Selection Information

Housing selection information for all rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors can be found here: Housing Selection Booklet. 

Incoming first year and transfer students can access the New/Transfer Application via their eRezLife Homepage starting on March 16; applications are due by 5pm on June 26. Incoming first year students are housed in rooms within Thomas (co-ed by floor), Memorial (all male), and Moore (all female) Halls. Transfer students are placed in upper-class halls based on availability. All halls have communal restrooms. Incoming first-year and transfer students will be notified of their Housing Assignment via email by 5pm on July 2^nd. Any incoming student that deposits after July 2^nd will be placed in available spaces. 

For information on Gender Inclusive Housing please contact the Director of Residence Life at alisona@muskingum.edu. If you feel that you need specific living accommodations, including an Emotional Support Animal or Medical Single, please reach out to the Student Accessibility Services Office to discuss the process at accessibility@muskingum.edu.  

Permission to Live Off Campus/Commute

Students who wish to live off-campus and have lived on campus for at least 6 semesters, must submit an application to live off-campus and receive permission from the Student Life Office. If you qualify, you must submit the application by Wednesday, March 25, at 5:00pm. Applications can be picked up in the Student Life Office starting on March 4. 

OR if you do not meet the above qualification, you must meet ONE of the following:

• You are married.

• You are older than 25 years of age.

• Your parents/guardian live within a 35-mile radius and you plan to live at home with them. This must be verified via a utility bill and your parent’s/guardian’s license.

Students who do not meet the above criteria will be automatically denied their request to live off-campus. Students may appeal to the appeal’s committee but usually only students with dire financial hardships are approved for appeals. The Residence Life Office strongly encourages all students not to sign property leases until they have been granted permission to live off-campus. 

Steps to Selecting a Room

• Complete the housing application by 5pm on March 25. 
• Match with a roommate or group of roommates by March 25. Remember, we suggest you have multiple pairings/groupings in case your first selection is not available when your lottery time is open.
• Check your email on March 30 for information on your specific selection time.
• Go to eRezLife during your selection time to choose a room.

Room Selection 

New this year, all housing types (i.e. single, super single, Townhouses/Lakeside houses, doubles, and triples) will be chosen on the same day, March 31. Housing Selection will occur online via eRezLife (linked in the Daily Catch). You will receive an email on March 30 with the specific date/time you will be able to choose your room on March 31. Since rooms will be chosen quickly, you are going to want to try to select your room as soon as your online selection time opens. You will want the person in your roommate pairing with the best selection time to choose the room for the pair. People who do not win a single/super single room, and do not have a matched roommate grouping will not be able to choose a room online. Those who fail to choose a room during room selection will be auto assigned by the Residence Life staff and notified of their room and roommate assignment at a later date.

Considerations

There is a limited number of single and super single rooms available. Once those spaces are full, residents will have to be a part of a roommate pairing to select a double, triple, or TWN/LKS room.

Townhouses and Lakeside houses must have a roommate grouping of six students total and triple rooms need 3 total. If someone in your group is granted a single room via Student Accessibility, please reach out to our office so we can manually adjust the numbers. 

In order to be a part of a roommate pairing/grouping, EVERYONE in the group must first complete the housing application and then accept roommate invites. 

We suggest that you have multiple pairings/groupings in case your first selection is not available when your lottery time is open. For instance, if your first choice is a single room or Townhouse/Lakeside house, please be sure to have a triple or double grouping as a backup since single rooms and TWN/LKS houses are chosen quicky.

Questions about Housing?

Contact: Alison Adams
Director of Residence Life
Muskingum University
alisona@muskingum.edu
740-826-8099
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