Accommodation for Erasmus students

There are different accommodation options depending on whether you are studying at Kingston University for:

• a complete academic year (study option 1); or
• one semester only (study options 2 or 3)

All accommodation is offered on a self-catering basis. However, there are student cafes across our campuses.

Find out more from our Accommodation website.

We do not provide accommodation for accompanying family members.

Students studying for a complete academic year

If you are studying at Kingston for a complete academic year, i.e. September - June, you can apply for a room in our halls of residence.

You will share a flat with between two and nine other students, dependent upon which hall you choose. Flats are normally composed of both male and female students from a range of different backgrounds and courses.

All our halls:

• have a range of rooms, some with en-suite facilities and others with shared bathrooms;
• are self-catering;
• have WiFi internet access; and
• do not include bed linen, crockery, cutlery or cooking equipment. However, you can purchase these quite cheaply in the local shopping centre.

When you take a hall room, you sign a legal contract for the 40-week academic year, so benefit from keeping your room during the Christmas and Easter vacations. However, if you decide to move out, you will be liable for rent until we can find a new tenant. 

Once you have been made an offer of a place to study at Kingston, and have accepted it, our accommodation team will contact you directly with details about how to apply, which is done online through our student portal (OSIS).

Find out about accommodation costs.

Students studying for a semester only

If you are studying at Kingston for a semester only, you are not eligible to apply for hall rooms.

However, there is a wealth of private accommodation within Kingston and the local area, which is very well connected by bus and train. As such, it's also worth looking in nearby Chessington, Teddington, New Malden, Ham, Richmond, Hampton Wick and Hounslow, which are all within a single bus ride. There is more information on the KU accommodation website.

Popular sites to look at include:

• SpareRoom
• Airbnb 
• Accommodation for Students

Accommodation costs

This is a guide to housing costs.

Academic year students: you pay the fees in three instalments (October, January and May) plus an advanced payment of £200 upon acceptance of the room, which is later deducted from the total amount due.