July 11 statement on Purdue housing

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue issued housing notices on Wednesday (July 10) to returning students. Of the 7,442 upperclassmen who chose to live in University Residences, just over 700 received room assignments that were different from what they expected. 

The university has been working through solutions for those students and on Thursday (July 11) offered the following options:


1. Keep your original housing contract. This is the default. You don't need to do anything to keep it. 
2. Completely voluntarily as your choice, if you choose (you don’t have to) the alternative given to you on Wednesday (July 10), then your annual room fee will be reduced by $4,000 in addition to any automatic change due to occupancy. (Example for First Street Towers double occupancy: $5,800 - $4,000 = $1,800 a year.)
3. You may choose to be released from your contract without penalty.

Those who don’t explicitly choose an option by 5 p.m. ET Sunday (July 14) will default to option 1: keeping the original plan from last November/December.

The university continues to work through housing assignments for first-year students, working on master leases for additional local apartments, and we expect to issue those assignments within the coming week. 

Although we targeted smaller enrollment and admitted a lower percentage of undergraduate applicants for fall 2024 than ever, during the crucial late April and May decision-making period this spring, students voted with their feet to come to Purdue, accepting their offers of admission at historically unprecedented levels. This resulted in more students than ever before requesting housing in University Residences. 

About Purdue University

Purdue University is a public research institution demonstrating excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities and with two colleges in the top four in the United States, Purdue discovers and disseminates knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 105,000 students study at Purdue across modalities and locations, including nearly 50,000 in person on the West Lafayette campus. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s main campus has frozen tuition 13 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap — including its first comprehensive urban campus in Indianapolis, the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, Purdue Computes and the One Health initiative — at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.