Housing and Residence Life
Housing & Residence Life at the University of Idaho offers on-campus residence hall and apartment living options for students at all levels. Please visit the Housing & Residence Life website for more information.
Residence Halls
Housing & Residence Life offers a variety of living communities for first-year through upper-level students. With four residence halls to choose from and over 1,800 students living on campus, students will experience an opportunity of a lifetime. Please visit the Housing & Residence Life website for a complete list of options and instructions on how to apply.
The University of Idaho has a first-year student live on requirement. For information on this policy, please visit the Dean of Students website or contact 208-885-6757.
Living and Learning Communities
The Living and Learning Communities (LLC) are designed for upper division students who want a hybrid of a residence hall and an apartment. The buildings include a full kitchen, community living rooms, dining rooms, dens with a fireplace, and study areas where students can relax or form instant study groups. The suite layout of the rooms houses two to five people per suite. The suite offers a common living area with a small kitchenette with sink, refrigerator and microwave, a shared bathroom and single, double, super double or super single rooms. Some unique themed communities in the Residence Halls and the LLC include the following:
Graduate Student Housing
With three residence halls and three apartment communities to choose from, graduate students can live conveniently on the University of Idaho campus. Please visit the Housing & Residence Life website for a complete list of options and instructions on how to apply.
Apartment Housing
For married students, students with children, graduate students, and students over 25 years old, the university offers affordable housing options to support a variety of academic needs. For more detailed information about living in University apartments, visit the housing website.
Elmwood
University Housing offers our Elmwood apartments to full-time students who are 19 years of age or older. Please visit the University Housing website for more information.
Off-Campus Living
Moscow offers a variety of off-campus housing options. Information sources for off-campus housing include the following:
- the off-campus housing list published weekly by ASUI (who can be reached at 208-885-6331), which is available at the Bruce Pitman Center, and
- Moscow's daily paper, the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, who can be contacted at 208-882-5561.
Quality Summer Conferences
The university houses numerous summer camps and conferences, bringing many participants to campus each year. Contact Conferences, Events, and Information Services at 208-885-6662 for more information on conference services.
Fraternity and Sorority Life
For more information on Fraternity and Sorority Life at the University of Idaho, visit the Greek Life website, stop by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life in the Idaho Student Union Building (ISUB) Suite 302, call 208-885-1114, or email fsl@uidaho.edu.
Panhellenic Sororities
There are ten Panhellenic Council (PHC) sorority chapters on the University of Idaho campus. Each chapter owns and operates its own chapter house. The PHC chapters are Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Pi Beta Phi. The average cost for living in a sorority is $4,500-$5,300 a semester, which includes charges for room, board, membership dues, and activity fees.
Membership in a PHC sorority is done by mutual selection between the potential new member and the sororities. The largest recruitment event takes place before the start of the fall semester and is called formal or primary recruitment. For more information on Panhellenic sorority recruitment, visit the Greek Life Recruitment website. Additionally, there is continuous-open-bidding (COB), which is informal and held outside of formal recruitment periods. PHC also holds an organized, though informal, spring recruitment.
Women who are interested in joining a PHC sorority should call 208-885-1114 or visit the Greek Life website.
Interfraternity Council (IFC) Fraternities
The University of Idaho recognizes nineteen social fraternities on campus, eighteen of which are members of the Interfraternity Council. Eighteen out of the nineteen fraternities have privately owned and operated facilities on campus.
The IFC fraternities are Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Kappa Lambda, Alpha Sigma Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Tau Delta, FarmHouse, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI), Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Kappa Tau, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Theta Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon. Kappa Sigma is not recognized by the Interfraternity Council. The average cost for living in a fraternity is between $3,600-$4,500 a semester, which includes room, board, membership dues, and activity fees.
Membership in a fraternity is done by mutual selection between the potential new members and the fraternity. The selection of members in each fraternity is made primarily during formal IFC recruitment, which is held in August before the beginning of the fall semester. Additionally, there is continuous-open-bidding (COB), which is informal and held outside of formal recruitment periods. IFC also holds an organized, though informal, spring recruitment.
For more information on IFC recruitment, visit the Greek Life Recruitment website or call 208-885-1114.
Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) Fraternities and Sororities
The University of Idaho has three multicultural fraternities and four multicultural sororities. The fraternities are Omega Delta Phi Fraternity, Inc., Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc., and Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Inc., and the sororities are Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority, Inc., Kappa Delta Chi Sorority, Inc., Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc., and Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc.. Multicultural fraternities and sororities at the University of Idaho do not have chapter houses and are open to all cultural backgrounds.
Membership is by invitation and takes place after school begins in the fall and spring. Call 208-885-1114 or email fsl@uidaho.edu for more information.
The Multicultural Greek Council is a representative body of the current multicultural Greek organizations. The council coordinates recruitment activities, creates policies, and provides community service opportunities. For more information, visit the Greek Life website.