If you are a current undergraduate interested in accommodation for 2025/26, you can apply online now. Please read on for the full details.

To apply, simply log in to the accommodation portal and select 2025/26. All colleges have availability for students in all cohorts, and you can apply for campus accommodation in your own college, or for our city accommodation at Chancellor's Wharf. We expect to be able to offer a place to more students in every college than in recent years, so if you are interested, please do apply or speak to your Accommodation Manager.

When to apply

If you apply by Sunday 12 January 2025 you will be considered in the first batch of allocations, and we will let you know the following week if we can offer a room or if you will be placed on a waiting list. You will receive a formal offer with seven days to accept the contract. You can of course continue to apply after 12 January, and we will continue to make offers for as long as we have availability. If you're applying later, talk to your Accommodation Manager about the options available to you at the time.

For most categories of returning student there is no guarantee of accommodation, and where demand exceeds supply by 12 January students entering their final year are prioritised over those going in to second year, but there are almost 2000 places available across campus. Later applications will be handled as and when they are received, by your own college.

Exceptions

If you are currently studying on a year away from the University (abroad or on a work placement), you are guaranteed a place on campus if you want it, providing you apply by 12 January 2025. Unfortunately later applications will be placed in a queue with all other applicants.

If you feel that you have a disability or special requirement that makes living on campus a necessity you must discuss them with your Accommodation Manager in advance of 12 January and you may be expected to provide medical evidence from a UK doctor if you haven't already done so. You must proceed to apply in the usual way by this date for consideration, writing in the ‘Additional Notes’ field that you have such a requirement for living on campus.

Note for students planning to study away next year

If you are planning to study overseas in 2025/26 as part of the Study Abroad programme, please don’t apply for campus accommodation now. If you subsequently don’t get the grades you need, we have an arrangement with the International Office that we will find you a room on campus.

If you are planning a work placement, please discuss the situation with your Accommodation Manager before applying. Any contract that you enter in to is legally binding and you would remain liable for the fees even if you weren’t studying here in person.

Friends

If you want to live with friends, you need to nominate a group leader in advance and put their name and student ID number in the required field on the web form. You all need to belong to the same college (unless you're applying to Chancellor's Wharf) and be applying for the same kind of accommodation.

REMEMBER: You all still need to submit an application - including the group leader, noting their own ID number! All of you must pick the same person and include their ID in order for the application to be grouped together.

Chancellors Wharf

The application form allows you to apply for accommodation in your own college or at Chancellors Wharf, the University's only managed halls of residence in the city centre. Chancellor's Wharf has 244 bedrooms with shared WC/shower facilities in three blocks by the Lancaster Canal. The Water Witch pub is just opposite and the infirmary bus stop just a three minute walk away. The flats come in different sizes to suit different groups and many rooms have balconies or canal views. Applications here are handled as they come in, and we’ll confirm your place as soon as possible after we receive your application.

REMEMBER: If you are applying to Chancellor's Wharf as part of a group you all still need to submit an application - including the group leader, noting their own ID number! All of you must pick the same person and include their ID in order for the application to be grouped together, and you should all put Chancellor's Wharf as your first choice.

Studios

If you wish to apply for a studio you can do this via the online application. As only Pendle and Grizedale have studios, successful applicants would be offered studio accommodation on Alexandra Park. Please complete the form highlighting the choice of room you would like if a studio is unavailable so that we can best accommodate you if we cannot offer you a studio.

Family Flats

If you wish to be housed as a couple in a one-bed flat, or with your children, you may be eligible to apply for a family flat. Please be aware that postgraduates are given priority and we are unable to advise undergraduates if they have been successful or not until the summer.

If you wish to be housed as a couple but your priority is to be on campus, then we would advise you to apply for two single rooms and contact the flats team in the summer about the possibility of upgrading if there are family flat vacancies.

Making you an offer for campus accommodation

If you apply by 12 January we will let you the following week if your application is successful or not, by way of a formal offer by email. You will have 7 days to accept that offer, at which point it will become legally binding. This means that you are obliged to pay the accommodation fees in full for the duration of the contract even where you choose to arrive later or depart earlier, or study away from the University for all or part of the year.

Prices

Accommodation fees are reviewed each year and will increase for next year to reflect higher costs. Exact details will be confirmed soon, and before you would be expected to commit to an offer.

If you wish to apply, you can apply here now.

Disclaimer

Lancaster University is only able to house full-time students. We are unable to offer accommodation to students in debt to the University, and if you subsequently encounter financial difficulties, you will be expected to clear outstanding amounts due by the end of June. In this eventuality you must discuss the situation with your Accommodation Manager to make arrangements and agree a payment plan. Failure to do this will result in you being issued with a notice to cancel the accommodation agreement.

We are also unable to accommodate students in breach of the student code of discipline or the Terms & Conditions of residence.

If we consider you or others to be at risk of harm as a result of your living here we will carry out a risk assessment to determine your suitability, in accordance with our Terms and conditions.