Summer Housing

We currently expect to provide all summer students with a single room in one of the shared apartment units of 15 West. Apartments include a kitchen and bathroom and are shared by 3–4 students.

Should we need to place a student in a shared space (e.g. a shared double loft), their housing costs will be reduced accordingly.

Rates are as follows (see below for dates):

Continuing students:

• full summer: $3,762
• partial summer: $3,205

Summer EFS students:

• full summer: $2,977
• partial summer: $1,848

Summer grad program students:

• full summer: $2,126
• partial summer: $1,696

Rates are per the dates provided under “Summer housing dates”. We do not prorate or reduce housing rates for shorter stays. Upon confirmation that you will live on campus during the summer, you cannot make changes to your selection.

Currently enrolled students

• Full summer residency: For students residing on campus in spring 2025 and assigned to on-campus housing for fall 2025, housing will be open from June 1–September 1.
• Partial summer residency: For students who do not have a fall 2025 housing assignment, housing will be open from June 1–August 10. Due to cleaning requirements, partial summer students must depart campus by August 10.

Summer EFS students

• Full program stay: Housing for summer EFS students with a fall 2025 housing assignment is open from June 24–September 1.
• Partial program stay: For students in the summer EFS program without a fall 2025 housing assignment, housing is open from June 24–August 10. Due to cleaning requirements, partial summer EFS students must depart campus by August 10.

Summer grad programs

• Full program stay: Housing for students with a fall 2025 housing assignment will be open from July 6–September 1. Please note that housing is not guaranteed for incoming new graduate students. If you are not assigned a room on campus, you will be moved to the partial program stay plan described below.
• Partial program stay: For students without a fall 2025 housing assignment, summer housing will be open from July 6–August 10. Due to cleaning requirements, partial summer grad students must depart campus by August 10.

Move-in and move-out dates

For students transitioning from a spring 2025 room into their summer 2025 accommodations, the move-in/out period runs from Friday, June 6–Sunday, June 8.

For students moving from their summer 2025 accommodations into their fall 2025 assigned room, the move-in/out period runs from Friday, August 8–Sunday, August 110.

If you do not have a fall 2025 room assignment, you must vacate your on-campus summer housing by August 10.

All students with a summer 2025 on-campus housing assignment will live in a multi-bedroom apartment unit in 15 West unless otherwise approved by Residence Life. Current students who have a confirmed 12-month stay will move directly into their fall 2025 housing for summer 2025.

Meal allotments are included with all room assignments. Allotments are required for students living on campus during the summer and cannot be removed.

During the summer you can use a predetermined number of meals; this amount is known as a “block”.

• continuing student housing (full and partial): 115 block
• summer EFS full stay: 115 block
• summer EFS partial stay: 60 block
• summer grad (full and partial): 60 block

If you have RISDbucks, you may use them on campus during the summer for vending, laundry and campus store purchases, and at all RISD dining venues open during the summer. Available dining venues for summer 2025 are to be determined.