Residence profiles
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About residence at uWaterloo
uWaterloo's 8 on-campus residences for first-year students can be categorized into 2 main communities – the "Waterloo Residences" and the "University College Residences." Together, the residences have spaces for more than 4,600 first-year students.
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Residence types
Traditional residences
Waterloo's's traditional-style residences offer double, single, or interconnecting rooms in a dormitory setting.
You'll share common areas and washrooms with other students on your floor, and you'll eat your meals in your residence cafeteria or at food outlets around campus.
- Approximately 61% of first-year students live in a traditional-style residence.
Suite-style residences
Waterloo's suite-style residences offer single or double rooms in an apartment or "suite" setting. You’ll share
a living room, bathroom(s), and a kitchen with your roommates, and eat many of your meals "at home" in your suite.
- Approximately 39% of first-year students live in a suite-style residence.
What are the odds I'll get a single room?
You should be prepared to be assigned to a traditional-style double room because most first-year students live in that type of accommodation. But don't worry! Many of our students tell us they love living in a traditional-style residence, despite originally having wanted a single room in a suite-style residence.
- Approximately 52% of first-year students live in a single room.
Living-learning communities
In some programs at Waterloo, you can join a living-learning community. You'll live in residence with other first-year students from the same area of study and participate in special programs organized by an upper-year Peer Leader.
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