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Accommodation at Edinburgh Campus

Living on our beautiful campus, you’ll meet others from all over the world that share your interests, discover new sports and activities, and make lifelong friends.

It’s also very convenient: your student accommodation is only minutes from your lectures and all our excellent campus facilities. Plus, when you live on campus, there are no monthly electricity bills or travel expenses to worry about!

We have about 1,600 residential accommodation places available, 300 of which are in our brand new student residences development.

We have a choice of self-catering shared flats or rooms available. Room sizes vary between 7 and 15 square metres, depending on the room type, but all rooms are well furnished, and have 4MB broadband internet connections as standard.

You can apply for accommodation online from 16 April 2012.

Self-catered flats

Single rooms - with bathrooms, kitchens and lounges shared between 5 students - cost £76.20 (standard single room) or £90.54 (large room) per week.
Self-catered rooms

Single rooms with wash basins - and kitchens shared between 4 or 5 students; bathrooms shared between 5 students - cost £90.60 per week.
Self-catered rooms, en suite

Single rooms with private en suite shower rooms, and kitchens shared between 5 students, cost £109.13 per week.
Self-catered rooms, en suite (new halls)

Brand new, large single rooms with 3/4 sized beds, private en suite shower rooms, and shared kitchens and lounges, cost £125.00 per week.

Accommodation guarantee

The University guarantees all new full time students (undergraduate and postgraduate) a place in halls in their first year. You are covered by the guarantee if:

you are a new full time student
you have an unconditional firm offer of a place at the University
you apply for accommodation online before the closing date (17:00, 22 August 2012)

In this guarantee, we include:

local residents from Edinburgh and the Lothians
direct entrants to year 2 or 3

If you are an exchange student (eg Socrates or Erasmus exchanges), you are not covered by the guarantee, but you should still email the Accommodation Office who will help you find accommodation (on campus, if it is available, or elsewhere in Edinburgh).

Visiting students

Unfortunately, we can't guarantee on-campus accommodation for visiting students who are studying with us for just one semester. On-campus accommodation for one semester is subject to availability and cannot be booked online. Instead, you can email halls@hw.ac.uk for an application form and we will contact you as soon as we can to let you know if we have any rooms available. Meanwhile, you may wish to look at off-campus living options in case we are not able to accommodate you.

Students with disabilities or extra support needs

A number of rooms on campus have been purpose built and are fully accessible. Our Disability Service can give you more information.

If you are an international student, you must contact us in advance so that we can assess whether we are able to meet your support and care needs in the residences.

Family accommodation

Unfortunately, we don’t have family accommodation on campus, but we can help you to find suitable accommodation off campus. We recommend that you travel to Edinburgh on your own first before making arrangements for your family to join you.