Stay Golden International Housing Guarantee

We know it’s important to have a safe and comfortable place to live while you’re in university. We already have our residence guarantee for first-year undergraduate students and now we’re offering guaranteed housing for international students in all years of their studies at Laurier.

The upper-year housing guarantee is available to international undergraduate students beginning their studies in fall 2024, winter 2025 or fall 2025 in Brantford or Waterloo only.

Housing Styles

With the housing guarantee, you’ll live on campus in residence in your first year. In your upper years, you’ll live off campus in apartment-style housing, where you’ll have a full kitchen so you can prepare your own meals.

Housing Guarantee for Students Starting in the Fall

1. Accept your offer to Laurier to begin your studies in the fall (September).

2. Submit your residence application and deposit no later than the posted deadline.

3. Live in residence for your first year (required for the upper-year housing guarantee).

4. We’ll contact you each year with more information about upper-year housing for the following year.

5. Opt in to the upper-year housing guarantee by the communicated deadlines.

6. Live in off-campus housing in your upper years.

Housing Guarantee for Students Starting in the Winter

1. Accept your offer to Laurier to begin your studies in the winter (January).

2. Visit the residence application page to find more information on availability for first year on-campus housing beginning in the winter term.

3. Live in residence for your first year (if available, not required for the upper-year housing guarantee).

4. We’ll contact you each year with more information about upper-year housing for the following year.

5. Opt in to the upper-year housing guarantee by the communicated deadlines.

6. Live in off-campus housing in your upper years.

Stay Golden International Housing Guarantee Terms and Conditions

All international undergraduate Laurier students will have access to guaranteed housing in Laurier-managed facilities for four years (or five years for select programs). The following terms and conditions must be met to access the housing guarantee each year:

• All deadlines outlined by the Department of Residence must be met by the student, including the residence application and deposit deadline in year 1 (June 2, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. EST) for students beginning studies in fall 2025.

• The student must begin their undergraduate studies in fall 2024, winter 2025 or fall 2025.

• Students beginning their studies in winter 2025 are not required to live in first year on-campus housing to be eligible for the upper-year housing guarantee.

• Once a student has opted out of the Stay Golden International Housing Guarantee, they are no longer eligible to receive this benefit in future years.

• Students must maintain full-time student status in order to take advantage of the housing guarantee.

• Students will be subject to the Residence Agreement, Residence Code of Conduct, and/or Ezra-Bricker Residence Agreement as well as the Laurier Non-Academic Student Code of Conduct while living in Laurier residence or housing. Failure to abide by terms and conditions in those documents could result in forfeiture of housing.

• Students will be subject to Board-approved residence and housing fees. If a student’s account is in arrears, they will forfeit the housing guarantee for future years.

• Students participating in a graduate program or the Bachelor of Education program are not eligible for the Stay Golden International Housing Guarantee.