How does housing work for transfers?

zmy8686
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:52:53 +0000

1. Apartments are off campus but not far away from campus. But some of the off campus apartments are closer to school than some on campus residential halls.

2. Studio is the only type of room that's possible to have a single room. However, some studios are double room or even triple as well. Single room are extremely rare and expensive (like 12k+ per 9 months).

3. On campus single room are present but very limited, and you may have to share living room or bath room stuffs like that. It's also very expensive, if not more expensive.

4. You don't have much chance getting these single rooms. I wanted a single room or 1 bedroom double last year, and I am a continuing student that can directly sign up for rooms. I only ended up with a 2 bedroom double with 3 other people in the apartment.

5. If you want your own bedroom, you have better chance just to look for off campus private apartments, either a studio/1bedroom, or a private room in a 2BR/3BR apartment. Usually it will be around $1000 on the lower end and around $1500 average, plus utilities and internet and other things.

Not sure about UCSB, but UCI has a better housing conditions. Many of my friends at UCI pay less rent than me and live in luxurious apartments. The only one that live on campus I know, live in a private bedroom in a townhouse. I would say UCSB will be similar since Irvine and Santa Barbara’s housing is no where near as expensive as in LA, more so in Westwood.