Housing guarantee

Parking is not guaranteed and spaces in the Residence Lot are assigned on a first come first served basis.

First-time resident and first year undergraduates

We believe living in Residence is an important and meaningful way for new undergraduates to begin the university journey.

Housing criteria (must meet all requirements)

  1. You are eligible to live in Residence (age 17 or over by the end of your first semester, and enrolled in a minimum of 1 ÂÜÀòÉäÇø university level course per semester living in Residence).
  2. Your ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Housing offer is accepted by May 1.
  3. You are entering ÂÜÀòÉäÇø as a first-time post-secondary student and you have not completed any post-secondary coursework at ÂÜÀòÉäÇø or any other post-secondary institution.

Indigenous students

The Indigenous Housing guarantee is open to all Indigenous students from Turtle Island (Canada). ÂÜÀòÉäÇø is dedicated to making living on campus more accessible to Indigenous people, and to improving our ability to support the personal and educational needs of Indigenous students. ÂÜÀòÉäÇø recognizes that Indigenous students make valuable contributions to the Residence living and learning environment, and therefore invites Housing applications from Indigenous students under this guarantee.

Applicants who wish to be considered under this guarantee must self-identify as being a person of Indigenous ancestry from Turtle Island (Canada) upon submission of their ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Housing application.

Housing criteria (must meet all requirements)

  1. You are eligible to live in Residence (age 17 or over by the end of your first semester, and enroled in a minimum of 1 ÂÜÀòÉäÇø university level course per semester living in Residence).
  2. Your ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Housing offer for the academic year (September to April) is accepted by August 1.
  3. You are not a newly admitted international student or exchange student.
  4. You must self-identify as being a person of Indigenous ancestry from Turtle Island (Canada).

Youth in care students

Students have to fulfill the eligibility requirement for the B.C. provincial tuition waiver for former youth in care as follows:

  1. Canadian citizen from British Columbia.
  2. Between 19 to 26 years of age.
  3. Have been in care* for a minimum of 24 months.
  4. Attend a B.C. public post-secondary institution, Native Education College or one of ten Union Institutes.

*Care is defined as any of: interim custody order, temporary custody order, continuing custody order, special needs arrangement, voluntary care agreement, youth agreement, extended family program, temporary transfer of custody, permanent transfer of custody, or child in the home of a relative.

Housing criteria (must meet all requirements)

  1. You are eligible to live in Residence (age 17 or over by the end of your first semester, and enroled in a minimum of 1 ÂÜÀòÉäÇø university level course per semester living in Residence).
  2. Your ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Housing offer is accepted by August 1.
  3. You must successfully submit a provincial tuition waiver application to the ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Office of the Registrar.

Varsity athletes

Housing criteria (must meet all requirements)

  1. You are eligible to live in Residence (age 17 or over by the end of your first semester, and enroled in a minimum of 1 ÂÜÀòÉäÇø university level course per semester living in Residence).
  2. Your ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Housing offer is accepted by June 30.
  3. You must be accepted by the ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Timberwolves student athletes program as a varsity athlete on any ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Timberwolves team.