Hi, Spartans!
Reminder: Your 2024-25 housing preferences, found in your My Housing account, are due Wednesday, June 12! The Housing Assignments Office will use these preferences to assign you to a space later this summer. As a new student, you have the choice to select your roommate or be assigned one randomly. Read on to learn all you need to know about roommates at MSU.
Also, be sure to check out this helpful video on what you need to know about the housing assignments process!
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Creating a Roommate Group
If you want to live with a specific roommate or suitemates, you must create a roommate group in your My Housing account. If you do not properly create and accept a roommate group, you will not be paired with your roommate. Here is what you need to do to create a roommate group:
1. Choose a "Group Leader" from your group of students. Anyone in your pair or group can be the Group Leader.
2. Log in to your My Housing account and click on "Complete Your Roommate Group."
3. The Group Leader will invite one, two, or three additional students to join the group by providing their names and MSU emails. Students in Living Learning Communities will have limits to how many students they can add to their Roommate Group.
4. Once invited, the Group Members will receive an email with instructions to accept or decline the invitation in their My Housing account.
5. All members of the roommate group must accept their invitations by June 12 in order to be a part of the Roommate Group. If this is not done, you will not be placed together.
When roommate groups are split because of preference choices or LLC requirement changes, there can be confusion and frustration. We are unable to share specific reasons why the roommate group was split with other students due to privacy concerns, it is the responsibility of each student to have that conversation with their roommates.
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Finding a Roommate
No roommate? No problem! MSU partners with My College Roomie to offer roommate matching for incoming students. You should have received an email from My College Roomie to sign up and access the app. If you have not, visit liveon.msu.edu/roommate-matching. My College Roomie helps you find potential roommates, but it is not where you complete your roommate group. Once you find your roommate, remember to create your roommate group in My Housing!
Students have the option of indicating up to three preferred roommates.
We will do our best to fulfill a request of three or more roommates. However, based on space, groups of more than two may be split.
Roommate groups of four will most likely be placed in an Akers quad or a Hubbard suite.
Roommate groups of three will most likely be placed in an Akers quad, a suite in Hubbard, or a Brody triple. Brody triple rooms are a great option for roommate groups of three! These groups pay a reduced rate and can opt-in on their preference form.
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Living-Learning Community Guidelines
Students who are in a Residential College or Living-Learning Community (LLC) have specific housing locations, and all LLCs require their students to have roommates in the same LLC. When using My College Roomie, you will need to self-filter for students within your LLC.
Please visit the LLC Guidelines page for full details on housing locations and roommate rules.
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Hierarchy of Assignment
When completing your housing preferences, it is important to keep in mind the hierarchy of assignment, meaning some preferences will outweigh others. Our priority is to maintain roommate groups, given that has been what our Spartans have asked for the most. However, it is important to note that if your chosen preferences don't align, it is possible your roommate group may be split.
We highly recommend you have an open, honest conversation with your potential roommates on your preferences and any LLC requirements you may have. When roommate groups are broken because of the preference changes there can be confusion and frustration; because we are unable to share specific reasons why the roommate group is broken with other students due to privacy concerns, it is the responsibility of each student to have that conversation with their roommates.
Learn more about the hierarchy of housing assignments.
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