University of Florida student housing

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Student housing at University of Florida is governed by the Division of Student Affairs, and provides housing for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on and off-campus. Approximately 8,100 students live in single-student residence halls. Nearly 1,600 students and their families also live on campus in 980 apartments arranged in Village Communities.

Undergraduate Housing

East Campus Residence Halls

West Campus Residence Halls

Honors Housing

The University of Florida Honors Program offers housing for freshmen at the Honors Village. This residentially-based academic community consists of five residence halls and integrates the housing needs of Honors residents with facilities, staff, and programs in support of the Honors Program. In total 1,407 residents can be accommodated. With the facility, each building is "themed" to accommodate honors students including a "Mindfulness Community" with meditation spaces, a student library, a makers space, study spaces, and sound damped music rooms.

Graduate and family housing

The graduate and family housing complexes are: Corry Village, Diamond Village, Maguire Village, Tanglewood Village, and University Village South. In addition they may reside in the UF affiliate The Continuum. Dependent children residing in the student housing with their parents are assigned to schools in the Alachua County Public Schools. As of 2015, residents of Diamond Village, Maguire Village, Tanglewood Village, and University Village South are assigned to Idylwild Elementary School. Corry Village and The Continuum are in the zone for Finley Elementary School. Kanapaha Middle School and Gainesville High School are the assigned secondary schools for all of the properties except for Tanglewood Village, which is instead assigned to Lincoln Middle School and Eastside High School.

Village Apartments

Corry Memorial Village (1958) Emory Gardner Diamond Memorial Village (1965) Raymer Francis Maguire Memorial Village (1971) University Village South (1972) Tanglewood Village (1973)

Former facilities

There have been some buildings at the University of Florida that were used for housing, but have since been demolished or converted to other uses. After rapid increases in enrollment after World War II and the allowing of women to enroll, several temporary buildings were erected on the campus. These included Other facilities built after World War II included:

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