How will you allocate my room and what can I expect?
Our accommodation is home to a diverse mix of students from different nationalities, backgrounds and cultures, with different characteristics and personalities. It is reflective of the make-up of the student body at Lancaster and across the UK today.
When you apply, we will ask you to express two preferences of college and room type. These are non-weighted, and we will look at both when allocating you. Your preferences will inform how we can best match you to a suitable room.
Think about what kind of accommodation you would like to live in, and which colleges might best suit you. We will also ask if you would like to live in catered or self-catered accommodation, or single-gender accommodation*. You can also add additional free text information, and we’ll let you indicate if any one choice is your top priority, to help us find the best match we can.
We will try to place new students together to help with the settling in process**. You can expect to be living with students from around the world, but we aim to place everyone with somebody they can relate to. Around 1 in 3 of our undergraduate students come from outside the UK.
You will not be asked personality based questions because we want to give everyone the chance to form friendships with people with differing interests, cultures and backgrounds. We believe that this makes us a truly diverse community, the benefits of which can be enjoyed by everyone.
*Note that very few UK students choose to live in single-gender accommodation so these areas are largely made up of international students.
**While we normally place new students together this is not always possible, especially later in the process. Study Abroad/Exchange students here for a short time only are normally placed with second and third year students.
