Your home on campus
If you're a freshman under 20 years of age (and not married), you'll live on campus - in a residence hall or a fraternity or sorority - for your first year at WSU.
In addition, our Freshman Focus program gives you an instant community -- you'll recognize people from your residence hall in at least two of your classes. When you're going to your first college classes with people who already live right next door, you get a better start.
Residence halls
Whether you call it a residence hall or a dorm, it's your home at WSU. You have 21 different halls to choose from.
Tour all the dorms at the Housing and Residence Life website. Get mobile tour apps for Android and iPhone.
Specific emphasis communities
Scholars
Many Honors College students live in Honors Hall and Scott-Coman Hall, where they help each other take their college education to new levels of inquiry and learning.
International
The international student community in McCroskey Hall can help ease the transition to life on an American campus and increase cultural understanding through relationships with fellow residents of different nations, races, and religions.
Science, engineering, and mathematics
The College of Engineering and Architecture and the College of Sciences encourage all students interested in science, engineering, and mathematics to sign up for Stephenson Hall. As a Stephenson resident, you'll get Freshman Focus courses that are closer to your area of interest.
Fraternities and sororities
Go with the Greek system and find a tight group of friends, academic support, and lifelong networking benefits. Most of WSU's residential fraternities and sororities are approved for freshmen.
Need to know more?
Check out the Housing and Residence Life website to find everything you need: detailed virtual tours, dining info, costs, housing applications, and even a parent's guide.
Students report on Freshman Focus
We survey students every year to find out how we're doing.
The surveys we've done recently say that since we started Freshman Focus a few years ago, students study more, form more study groups, discuss ideas with friends outside class more often, and have higher levels of satisfaction with their academic experience.
Students say that Freshman Focus helped them make friends on the residence hall floor, and that those early friendships led to increased confidence in class.