University of London Housing Services

This site mainly covers the services available through the Private Housing Unit. If your enquiry relates to the Intercollegiate Halls of Residence, you should use the Halls website for most enquiries

The Private Housing Unit  is funded by the Colleges of the federal University to provide a range of services to their students who are considering living, or live, in private rented housing. The University of the Arts London, Ravensbourne College and Royal College of Arts  also buy into the service. 

• What is the University of London?
• Equal Opportunities
• Map showing location of Colleges together with links through to their websites
• What do we do?
• Where are we?
• Meet the team
• How we are funded

Founded by Royal Charter in 1836, the University of London is one of the oldest and largest universities in the UK and is a federation of over 40 institutions of varying size and academic profile. Some are large multi-faculty Colleges and others are small specialist Institutes. The University houses aprroximately 30% of its full time students in University Halls of Residence. Approximately 42% of the student population is accommodated in the private sector. It is believed that the remaining numbers stay at home or acquire their own properties. The figures above will give you some idea of the shortage of University owned accommodation and therefore how important and helpful it is to students when landlords offer their accommodation to the University.

The University's Statute 3 requires that the University shall not discriminate against any person on the grounds of colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, politics or sex. The University promulgates an Equal Opportunities Policy incorporating these and other appropriate provisions in relation to a number of matters including disability, age, and sexual preferences within the law.

Red Dots represent Colleges served by our office and blue dots represent other Higher Education Institutions in London. Clicking on a dot will bring up further information about the institution, together with a link to their website.