Ohio University
Graduate Catalog

Living Arrangements

Residence Hall Housing


Graduate students may live in any upperclass residence hall. Most graduate students reside in one of three buildings: Ryors Hall, Wray House, or Ewing House. Ryors, on the West Green, is designated for graduate students and students over the age of 21. Wray and Ewing, on New South Green, are both designated as quiet study buildings. All three buildings are coed with double and single rooms. Ryors has a limited number of singles, with the majority of space available in double rooms. Wray and Ewing have a greater percentage of single rooms, with the remainder of the space being doubles. Double rooms on the New South Green provide more living space than doubles on the other greens and have a higher per-quarter room charge. Wray House is an air-conditioned building; a quarterly AC surcharge is added to the room charge.

Ryors Hall is especially convenient for students in the Colleges of Business Administration, Engineering and Technology, Health and Human Services, Osteopathic Medicine, and many departments in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Wray and Ewing are located close to the Colleges of Education and Fine Arts and the Departments of Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics and Astronomy. The buildings present a unique living arrangement with 12 to 18 people sharing a common lounge, and two or three hallways designated for six people in a combination of single and double rooms.

While graduate students are not required to live in university housing, many do take advantage of our facilities. All university residence hall contracts are binding for the entire academic year (fall, winter, and spring quarters), unless you graduate or leave Ohio University.

Food Service

Four basic meal plans are offered to help meet a variety of needs. You do not have to live on campus to participate in one of the meal plans, but may purchase any of the plans as an off-campus student. The 7-meal plan is the least expensive and is for light eaters or those who anticipate eating most of their meals off campus. The 14-meal plan allows you to select any 14 meals during a seven-day period and is a good choice if you tend to spend your weekends away from campus or prefer two meals a day. The 20-meal plan allows you to eat all meals served during a seven-day period. The most economical of the meal plans, it is preferred by those who eat almost exclusively on campus, athletes, and hearty eaters. The Green Card is for those who want 20 meals a week and don't want to forfeit the value of a meal that they may miss or skip. Unlike the 20-meal plan, the Green Card allows you to use missed meal credits, either by taking a friend to the dining hall or by getting items from one of the snack bars. This plan may be shared with another student. For the 7-, 14- and 20-meal plans, weekly missed meals are forfeited; the plans are not transferable. All university food service contracts are binding for the entire academic year for on-campus students. Off-campus students may purchase a quarterly meal plan contract.

University Apartments

Ohio University has two apartment complexes rented primarily to married students, single parents with children, and single graduate students. The Wolfe Street Apartments are located on the southeast corner of the main campus, near Clippinger Laboratories. Fifty-two units are available in a two-story brick building: 38 one-bedroom units, eight bedroom/nurseries, four efficiencies, and two two-bedroom units. The Mill Street Apartments are six blocks northeast of the main campus, adjacent to the intramural fields. Sixty-six one-bedroom apartments are housed in a six-story building with elevator service. Each of the 127 two-bedroom apartments is housed in 12 smaller buildings with direct access to the outdoors. Outdoor parking facilities, coin-operated laundries, and a fenced playground area for children are located in both complexes.

All Wolfe Street apartments are furnished; Mill Street apartments may be rented either furnished or unfurnished. Furnishings in the apartments do not include linens, bedding, dishes, lamps, or rugs. Both furnished and unfurnished apartments are equipped with an electric range, refrigerator, and miniblinds. All utilities are included in the monthly rent, including monthly television cable service. A telephone outlet is provided in each unit with local service provided by General Telephone Company of Ohio, but the cost of phone service is not included in the rent. Air conditioners are permitted with an additional installation and electricity surcharge fee. All guidelines established by the university regarding air conditioner usage must be followed.

Interim Housing

We try to provide graduate students with housing at a nominal cost during the breaks between the fall and winter quarters and the winter and spring quarters, when most residence halls are closed. Although such housing may be in your permanently assigned hall, you may have to make a temporary change of residence.

Please note that there is a period of about 40 days-from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day-when Ohio University is not in session. You should plan to have sufficient funds to cover living expenses for this period. Food service will not be available on campus, and meal costs in local restaurants will be considerably more than the per-day cost of a regular board plan.

If you have questions about the residence halls or want information concerning the university apartments, contact Housing, Chubb Hall 60, Athens OH 45701, telephone 740-593-4090.



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