Housing Requirements
All full-time undergraduate students (registered for 12 or more hours per semester) at Ashland University are required to live on campus unless the student meets one of the housing exemptions.
Undergraduate students who started at Ashland University in Fall 2023, and following semesters:
- Students are required to live on campus for their first three years (for a total of six Fall and Spring semesters) or have completed 90 credit hours at an accredited college/university, as verified by Ashland University Registrar.
- Students who wish to live off-campus will need to complete the Office of Residence Life's Off-Campus Housing Application.
Undergraduate students who started at Ashland University Prior to Fall 2023:
- Students must live on campus for all four years.
All approvals are granted on an annual basis. Students must complete the Off-Campus Housing Application each year while attending Ashland University. Falsification of any information in an attempt to receive an off-campus exemption will result in room and board charges applied to your student account, as well as being considered a violation of the Student Handbook. Violations of the student handbook will be adjudicated through our student conduct process.
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Exceptions to the housing requirements may be made for the following reasons:
How to Apply to Live Off-Campus
Applying to Live Off-Campus
All approvals to live off-campus are granted by the Office of Residence Life on an annual basis. Students must complete the Off-Campus Housing Application each year while attending Ashland University, even if approval was granted to live off campus during a prior academic year.
If you have a completed housing application & housing agreement (located within the housing application), are later approved to live off campus and cancel your on-campus housing/housing agreement, you may be subject to a $500 termination fee per the rules of that agreement.
To complete the Off-Campus Housing Application, go to housing.ashland.edu.
Maintaining Off-Campus Status
- Approval to live off campus may only be granted through the Office of Residence Life for up to one academic year. Once granted, permission to live off campus is only valid so long as the reason for the original approval still exists. Any change of status during the time period for which the student has been approved to live off campus may nullify the off-campus status, resulting in the student being invoiced for room and board and/or possibly incurring an action for misconduct.
- If you have obtained off-campus status, to retain that status you must maintain a valid local address and phone number through the Office of Residence Life. If you fail to provide an accurate address and phone number to the Office of Residence Life by July 1 prior to the academic year, you will be charged for room and board.
- If, as an off-campus resident, you disrupt the life/lives of those on campus (whether via noise, alcohol use or other means), the university may charge you with a conduct violation and/or rescind your commuter status.
Off-Campus Student Housing Offered through Auxiliary Services
Ashland University owns several properties that we rent on a long-term basis to AU faculty and staff, students and Ashland Theological Seminary students.
