Housing and Residence Life

Room Assignment Process

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Securing Your Room Assignment

The process for securing a room assignment in Spelman College housing varies by student classification and student type. The process for any student will begin on the Spelman Housing Dashboard.

All students interested in living in college housing – whether at an on-campus or off-campus location - will complete a Spelman housing application and sign the Spelman College Housing Lease.

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Contact Info

Office of Housing and Residence Life

350 Spelman Lane, SW
Atlanta, GA. 30314

404-270-5344
housing@spelman.edu

Mon. - Fri. | 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Important Housing Information

Current Students

Current students will complete a housing application and lease to express their interest in living in Spelman housing for the subsequent academic year.  

Current first-year students will be guaranteed housing for their second year if the communicated housing application deadline is met. The housing guarantee is not for a specific location and may be assigned at an on-campus or off-campus location.

What is the Process?

Once the application period closes, all applications will be randomly sorted. This computer-generated sort will determine the following:

  • The order in which current first-year/rising second-year students will choose their assignment for the subsequent year by designating a housing selection time. 
  • The order in which juniors or seniors will participate in the housing selection process to view available housing after the current first-year students' housing assignments are completed.

Spelman Housing Options for Current Students

On Campus:

  • BDT Suites
  • Bessie Strong Hall – living-learning community
  • Laura Spelman Hall – living-learning community
  • MacVicar Hall
  • McAlpin Hall
Off Campus:
  • The Mix Apartments


View the Important Dates for Current Spelman Students

New Students

New First-Year, First-Time Students

The housing application for students who will be new at the start of the fall semester is available on April 1.

Only those individuals who have accepted their admission to Spelman and received their official Spelman credentials (username and password) will be able to complete a housing application.

New first-year, first-time students who are under 19 years old are guaranteed on-campus housing if the following deadlines are met:

  • May 1 to accept admission and submit the enrollment confirmation fee
  • May 8 to complete the housing application on the Housing Dashboard

Individuals who do not meet both deadlines will not be eligible to live on campus at Spelman.

Once you have completed a housing application and have accepted your admission to attend Spelman, you will be notified that you may select your room for the upcoming academic year. You will be able to make your initial room selection and re-enter the site if you want to make a change to your room.

It is possible that some students may be placed on a waitlist for on-campus housing if they complete the housing application later in the process or if the size of the incoming class is particularly large.  If this occurs, students will be assigned as quickly as possible as rooms become available. 

Important Dates for New First-Year, First-Time (NFT) Students

Transfer and Guest Students
Spelman is not able to guarantee housing to transfer and guest students. You can complete a housing application, which will be viewed as a waitlist form. Students who are under 20 years old with fewer than four semesters of enrollment at any college/university will be our priority to house. We encourage you to explore living options in the local community in case we are not able to extend an on-campus assignment to you.

Commuter Student Resources
Here at Spelman, we are unable to house all students and some prefer off-campus living. Many juniors, seniors and nontraditional students live off campus and commute anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes from campus. To help you balance academic, personal, work, social and community engagement responsibilities, we have special accommodations for you. There are many off-campus housing resources available to Spelman students. For further information, please visit Commuter Students.

Rooms and Meals

Costs for rooms and meal plans are available on our Tuition and Fees page. Room rates are determined by the type of room assigned to a student. Room types consist of the following:

On Campus

  • Single room in a traditional residence hall. Shared room in a traditional residence hall (double, triple, quad, or supplemental housing)
  • Suites: 2-person, 3-person, and 4-person suites with private sleeping rooms and shared bathroom, sitting area, and kitchenette.

All students who live on campus are required to have a dining plan. For more information about meal plans and dining services, please visit Dining Services.

Off-Campus

  • Mix Apartments: A private room and private bathroom in a 4-person apartment sharing a living room and kitchen with three other residents.