Housing Rates
2024-2025 Housing Rates
Housing Cost-Savings Initiatives: Housing Facilities and Finance is committed to providing students with a living learning experience that is both affordable and high quality. Our efforts related to affordability have included generous discounts to the cost of meal plans and housing over the past several academic years. Housing Facilities and Finance is pleased to announce that cost-saving initiatives will continue in the 2024-2025 academic year, though with some modifications that will allow us to continue offering housing that is high quality as well as affordable. Please visit the websites for each of the initiatives for further details:
- Live and Learn in Alaska: This initiative allows students with a non-resident or international Residency Code who live on campus to receive the equivalent of in-state tuition rates for courses taught through UAA. Note: Eligibility to receive this benefit is dependent on students finalizing their residency with the Office of Admissions. Students whose residency status is listed as “pending” will not be eligible for this benefit.
- General Housing Scholarship: Students living on campus who do not have their tuition reduced through the Live and Learn in Alaska initiative will receive a $500 discount on their fall and spring housing costs. Note: Eligibility to receive this benefit is dependent on students finalizing their residency with the Office of Admissions. Students whose residency status is listed as “pending” will not be eligible for this benefit.
- Academic Honors Housing Scholarship: UA Scholars and students in the University Honors College who live on campus will receive a $750 discount on their fall and spring housing costs.
Rate Increase: Housing Facilities and Finance is committed to making the experience of living on campus as affordable as possible for UAA students. Over the past seven years, significant resources have been invested in the comfort and safety of our facilities despite rising costs for labor, materials and services. Despite rising costs, leadership has chosen to prioritize affordability to students, and has not raised rates for housing over the same seven-year period. In order for Housing Facilities and Finance to continue offering safe, comfortable housing options to UAA students, a modest increase of $100 in the 2024-2025 academic year will be implemented. Housing Facilities and Finance will continue to seek cost-cutting measures and efficiencies to ensure rate increases are kept as low as possible.
Residence Halls
| Room type | Cost Per Semester |
| Double Suite: Two private bedrooms, one bathroom and small entry/storage area | $3,525 |
| Quad Suite - Private Bedroom: Four private bedrooms, two bathrooms, living area and storage room | $3,550 |
| Quad Suite - Shared Bedroom: Two large bedrooms, each housing two students, two bathrooms, living area and storage room | $3,250 |
| Single Suite:One studio bedroom and bathroom (Note: single suites are extremely limited and are typically reserved for student staff or juniors, seniors or graduate students) | $3,900 |
MAC Apartments
| Room Type | Cost Per Semester |
| MAC Private Bedroom Apartment: Four private bedrooms with shared bathroom, living area, kitchen and storage room | $4,000 |
| MAC Shared Bedroom Apartment: Two large bedrooms, each housing two students, with shared bathroom, living area, kitchen and storage room | $3,800 |
Templewood Townhomes
| Room type | Cost Per Semester |
| Templewood Private Bedroom: Private bedroom, shared bathroom, living area, kitchen and garage in a 3-bedroom townhome apartment | $4,125 |
| Templewood Shared Bedroom: Large bedroom meant for two students, shared bathroom, living area, kitchen and garage in a 3-bedroom townhome apartment | $3,900 |
| Templewood Shared Bedroom Buyout: Buyout option where a student can occupy a shared bedroom without a roommate | $4,525 |
More Information about Rates
- A $30 per semester Programming Fee will be applied with each assignment. This fee will help support programming for residential students.
- Apartments are typically reserved for students who have lived on campus at least one year or are 21 years of age or older.
- All students living in the residence halls are required to have one of our full-semester meal plans.
- Residents living in one of our apartments or townhomes have the option to purchase a meal plan, but are not required to do so. Meal plan options for these residents include the full-semester meal plans in addition to smaller meal plans that can supplement the meals from their own kitchens. Participating in one of these plans can save you the time and energy required for grocery shopping, meal prep and clean up, and allows you to enjoy meals with your friends in our beautiful dining hall, the Creekside Eatery conveniently located in the Gorsuch Commons!
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Application Fees and Deposit
All students must pay an application fee and deposit at the time they apply for housing. Please see the How to Apply page for instructions on completing the Housing Application on UAOnline.
| Fee | Amount |
| Refundable Deposit | $300 |
| Application Fee (non-refundable) on or before August 1 | $60 |
| Late Application Fee (non-refundable) after August 1 | $75 |
Students must uphold the terms of the Housing Agreement in order for the deposit to be refunded.
2024 Summer Housing Rate
$2,875 for both summer sessions. Rate will be prorated accordingly for students staying for only one session. Note: Student housing is consolidated to the MAC apartments during the summer, which may necessitate students moving in May to their summer assignment and again in August to their fall assignment. Every effort will be made to minimize the number of times a student is required to move.
Please see the Summer Housing webpage for more information.
Payment Methods
It's all about convenience!
An application fee and refundable deposit are due at the time students submit their online housing application and can be paid with a debit or credit card. All other housing and dining fees will be assessed to your UAA student account prior to the start of each academic semester and should be paid along with tuition and other UAA fees by the UAA payment deadline for each semester. Students must keep their accounts with the University of Alaska in good standing in order to live in on-campus housing.
For information on how to pay your student account, visit the Bursar's Office webpage.
All rates for the 2024-2025 academic year are effective as of March 1 and are subject to change. Rates are listed per semester. Students can apply for housing anytime during the year and rates will be prorated depending on the actual move-in date.
View rates for the 2023-2024 academic year here: