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On-campus housing applications for the 2025-2026 academic year launched  on Friday, November 21! The deadline to apply for housing is February 8. 

New for Fall 2026:

• Sophomores, juniors and seniors will be able to live together in any of our housing devoted to our "Rising Student Cohort" (RSE)
• RSE includes a mix of housing types: doubles with private bathrooms, single rooms, suites and apartment-style.
• Starting in Fall 2026, ALL RSE buildings will have air-conditioned rooms.
• As previously shared, our housing fees are changing for next academic year. Refer to our November post or our website.

You and your student may click the links above for virtual room tours and see more details about each building on our website. 

Benefits of living on campus

• Flexible options. While students who sign a housing contract are obligated to live on campus for the entire year, this is only as long as they are enrolled in classes. Students who withdraw, take a leave of absence, study abroad or student teach greater than 30 miles from campus are able to leave their housing contract without penalty. For more details, click here. Students who sign a lease with a landlord are legally bound to that lease for the duration of the agreement, regardless of medical, financial or academic changes. TCNJ Residential Education & Housing puts students first, and has created policies that understand and support students.
• Additionally, students who live on campus are able to do room or roommate changes (space permitting) should their living situation not be conducive to their needs. 
• TCNJ has both student and professional staff who are invested in our residents’ success and work to ensure they are connected to campus resources, have access to engaging, fun and educational programs and are overall committed to the continued growth and development of our students. 

TCNJ knows living on campus contributes to a student’s overall success, especially in their first and second years. Having staff that can connect students to resources, support their needs, and celebrate their wins, combined with the convenience of living near campus resources like Tutoring, the library and being able to take advantage of faculty office hours contributes to this success.

Multiple national studies support this and also indicate the following academic and social benefits:

• Residential students tend to have higher quality social interactions than commuters. It is easier for students to meet people and create new friendships.
• Seniors who live on campus were more engaged with advisors/faculty than their off-campus peers. 
• High quality interactions between students and peers or students and their faculty are linked with better academic engagement and success.
• Easier access to campus events and programs—and getting involved in the student organizations that run many of them—provides great co-curricular opportunities  that provide an out of classroom learning experience AND can be translated into future job skills.
• Students are able to more easily form study groups, which aid academic success, peer social supports and friendships (and potentially future career networks!).
• In a TCNJ Spring 2023 survey on belonging, 77% of residential students said they feel at home living on campus. Students were more likely to feel a sense of belonging when they reported being involved in co-curricular activities.

Additionally, resident satisfaction is high at TCNJ. In a Spring 2025 survey, TCNJ student satisfaction exceeded the national average in a wide range of categories including:

• Personal interactions with peers
• Residential programming
• Roommate relationships
• Safety and security
• Sense of belonging
• Student staff

How Your Student can Apply for Housing

Applying is as easy as 1-2-3:

1. Log into MyHousing.
2. Click on the academic year “26-27 application”.
3. Fill out the required information and sign the housing contract.

Please note that students are signing their housing contract at the time of their application submission; without signing, their application is considered incomplete. The contract is a legally binding agreement for the full academic year (Fall and Spring semesters). If your student signs the contract but wishes to cancel the application, the deadline to do so without penalty is before room selection. Any contract release requests after this date will be processed in accordance with our cancellation and contract release policies. 

 Housing will take place through a lottery and room selection process. Once the deadline to apply for housing has passed, students receive a computer-generated timeslot. This timeslot indicates the date and time for which your student may log into MyHousing and self-select their space for the next academic year. For more information on the lottery/room selection process, roommate groups, and on-campus living, please refer to our Housing page.

If your student wants to engage with on-campus housing in a different way, Residential Education and Housing also offers special interest housing. Programs include: Lion’s House (Recovery & Substance Free Housing, Gender Inclusive Housing, and Umoja (Multicultural Housing Community). 

For any parents or families that may be worried about the lottery and room selection process: for the last five years, all students who applied for housing received it. If your student applies by the application deadline, it is anticipated that they will receive a time slot!