How to Apply

Once students have met all conditions to study on a full-time course at St Edmund’s College, they will be able to apply for accommodation online. Students will be able to select and book the grade, location and room number that they want from the accommodation that is still available. Make sure you choose the accommodation that will suit you best by doing research via our website before you apply. Once a room has been reserved, users will not be able to change selection.
Instructions about logging in and step-by-step online booking will be emailed once all conditions are met and once bookings open in May. Users can start an application and log back in another time to complete it but applications left for more than 24 hours will reset.

Postgraduates: You’ll need to wait at least 24 hours (sometimes longer, unfortunately it is out of our control) after you have been firmly accepted by GTS before you will be sent an email to register for your online accommodation portal. Once registered, your accommodation application and confirmation of booking is all done online through the accommodation portal.

Undergraduates: We will process accommodation allocation for new undergraduates in batches once every two weeks. This will ensure that we manage the supply of available rooms. Every two weeks we will release sufficient rooms for those undergraduate students who have met their conditions but have not yet been offered a room. As wide a selection of rooms will be offered as is possible and practicable. Everyone who is offered a room, will have to make their selection from the rooms available at that time, unless you have particular needs relating to a disability which you have discussed with the admissions team in advance.

‘Met all conditions’

For undergraduate students: this means that you have:

• Met any academic conditions stipulated in your offer, and have provided the proof that these have been met if you have applied after receiving your qualifications
• Met the financial conditions – you have supplied us with a completed Financial Undertaking form
• Medical/Veterinary students – you have completed your DBS check (or international equivalent)

For graduate students: this means that you have:

• Met all of the conditions stipulated by the Postgraduate Admissions Office (this includes academic, financial and any language conditions). We must have received confirmation from the Postgraduate Admissions Office of your admission.

Further Information

Applications for St Edmund’s College accommodation can only be accepted if received by online application. The only exception to this would be students applying who have a disability or medical condition, or are looking for family accommodation. In this situation, please get in touch with our Accommodation Office straight away.

If all our accommodation is full, a waiting list of eligible applicants will be established, and any offer of accommodation made will be on the basis of the room that is available when the applicant is at the top of the waiting list.

It is advisable that if you have still not been admitted to the University by the end of August, you start looking at private accommodation. The Cambridge University Accommodation Office has a database of hundreds of properties suitable for students. They are used to helping students find accommodation at short notice.

Students may be required to move to alternative accommodation during holiday periods.