Housing and Residential Life
On-Campus Housing
The Stanford MBA Program is a 2-year, full-time, residential program where living and learning are integrated to support your academic endeavors and to start your membership in the Stanford community with a warm welcome.
At Stanford, learning extends beyond the formal classroom. Living on campus complements the academic curriculum with activities and experiences essential to your preparation for a life of leadership, intellectual engagement, citizenship and service.
Whether you choose to live on- or off-campus, the Stanford community offers unmatched opportunities for building relationships with your classmates. MBA Students from around the globe call Stanford home. Single students, married students, and students with families meet here on common ground.
The essential conviction of Residential Education is that living and learning should be integrated, not separate; that formal teaching, informal learning, and personal support in residences is integral to a Stanford education.
If you apply in the first or second round, you can meet the deadline for the housing lottery.
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The Schwab Residential Center Schwab houses approximately 200 unmarried first-year students in a community of small, modern apartment buildings.
Each student has a private living area and bath, plus a shared kitchen. The Center is adjacent to sports venues and the University's main athletic facilities. MBA students who don't live in Schwab frequently visit the Center to meet with classmates and use its facilities. About five percent of Schwab's rooms are open to non-GSB students. |
Residents share access to beautiful open courtyards, a fountain, comfortable lounges, a computer lab, and study rooms.
Additional Stanford University Graduate HousingThe Graduate Housing Service manages all other housing accommodations on campus, including dormitories, small group houses, apartments, and suites. |
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Escondido Village apartments house approximately 3,200 single students, couples without children, and students with children |
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The Liliore Green Rains Houses include two-and four-bedroom apartments, all of which offer a private bedroom for each student |
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The Richard W. Lyman Graduate Residences are two-bedroom apartments housing 224 students on the west side of campus, close to the Medical Center and the Science and Engineering Quad |
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Munger Graduate Residence opened in 2009 and provides premium apartments for 600 students.
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Off-Campus Housing
If you prefer to live off-campus, a wide variety of neighborhoods near campus offer housing to meet virtually any need. Community Housing Services (CHS) can provide basic information about finding housing in the Stanford area. A comprehensive portfolio of information is available by mail, free of charge to admitted students. Other off-campus housing information is available online, in local newspapers, and through local property management companies.
Stanford MBA students preparing for class in the courtyard of the Schwab Residential Center
Off-Campus Housing Resources
» Community Housing Services
» Craigslist.org
Applying in Round 1 or 2 allows you access to the on-campus housing lottery and/or Schwab Residential Center housing.
"Living in the Schwab Residential Center during my first year was a great way to get to know my classmates.
With study group meetings, cultural dinners, and recruiting events held right there, I was very much in the center of residential life, with the added convenience of a short walk to classes. It's the perfect combination of student residence and private apartment."
Allison Yuhong Cui, MBA 2007
China
Consultant, Monitor Group (Shanghai)