Room Selection

Room Selection gives you the opportunity to select a room for the next academic year. Room types/options are based on availability. For a step-by-step guide of the Room Selection process, we recommend viewing our General Room Selection Overview video.

You will be notified via email and provided an assigned time slot that will be used to select your room within the Campus Housing portal of myUK. Your Room Selection time slot is determined by your UK Admissions Track and the Housing and Dining Application completion date. For a step-by-step guide of the Room Selection process, we recommend viewing our General Room Selection Overview video.

Yes, you will participate in Room Selection if you have a completed housing application. In order for you to have a housing assignment, you must select your room through the Room Selection process.

Based on when you were admitted to the university and when you completed your housing application, you will be sent an email notifying you of the day and time you will participate in Room Selection. We strongly encourage you to select your space as soon as your Room Selection window opens, so that you may have optimal choices when selecting your room.

• For those who have accepted an LLP offer, you can expect to participate in Room Selection in early March.
• For those not participating in an LLP, you can expect to participate in Room Selection in early June.
• If you are a student returning to UK Campus Housing, you can select your room as soon as you submit your housing application.

If you do not have a confirmed roommate, other students without a roommate will be able to see you in your room space. They can also view the profile information you submitted as part of your application, if you have chosen to display this information. This is how other students can tell if you might have some common interests and would make a good roommate match. We recommend viewing our Room Selection: Solo (Finding a Roommate) video. 

When viewing students whose names appear within a bed space, you can hover your mouse over each student's name to find out more information about them. If they have chosen not to make their information public, the term “hidden” will appear when you hover your mouse over their name.

The deadline for new students to apply for the 2024-2025 Living Learning Program (LLP) is May 15, 2024, and the deadline to accept an LLP offer is May 22. Spaces are limited within each LLP, so applying early is encouraged.

All LLP students, with the exception of Community of Scholars, are required to live with students in their same LLP.  Click here to view some frequently asked questions pertaining to LLPs.

Community of Scholars students are the only LLP students allowed to room with students outside that LLP; however, we ask that you notify UK Campus Housing by emailing ukhousing@uky.edu or calling 859-257-1866 to officially process this request. 

Yes. You are not required to be in a roommate group to participate in Room Selection. When your assigned time slot opens, you can still select a space without first selecting a roommate. Only rooms available to you and those students in your specific LLP will be visible. If you are looking at a specific space, you can hover over an occupant’s name with your mouse to view more information about that student to determine if they would be a good match as a roommate. To view some commonly asked questions pertaining to LLPs, please click here. We also recommend watching our Room Selection: Solo (Finding a Roommate video).

Yes. If you no longer intend to participate in an LLP, you will need to officially decline your LLP offer within the Housing portal of myUK before May 22. Once the offer has been declined, you can consider yourself released from the LLP and may now select a different room, residence hall or roommate(s) by using the Room Swap function. All changes must be submitted prior to the closing of the Room Selection window at 11:59 p.m. on July 14. 

This could mean a couple things. 

1. You need to create and verify your roommate group within the Roommate Requests section of the housing application in myUK. We recommend viewing our General Room Selection Overview video and Room Selection: Preferred Roommates video for step-by-step instructions. 
2. You have selected roommates outside of your LLP. REMINDER: Students participating in an LLP are expected to live with another student in the same LLP, unless you are joining the Community of Scholars LLP.  To check that your roommates are members of the same LLP as you, log into myUK and visit the Roommates Requests section of your housing application. Once there, you will be able to view each student’s chosen LLP. If you discover that any of the students within your created roommate group do not belong to your same LLP,  you will need to use the Roommate Matching feature within the Housing portal to search for students who are also members of your LLP. Each student’s chosen LLP can be seen when you view their information.
3. If you have confirmed that both of the above items have been correctly completed and are still experiencing difficulty, please reach out to UK Campus Housing for assistance by emailing ukhousing@uky.edu or calling 859-257-1866. 

No. Community of Scholars students are the only LLP students allowed to room with students outside that LLP; however, we ask that you notify UK Campus Housing by emailing ukhousing@uky.edu or calling 859-257-1866 to officially process this request. 

To view a list of commonly asked questions about LLPs, please click here. 

There are several reasons a student may decide to change rooms.  You may decide you want to live on a different side of campus, or maybe you didn’t receive your first choice of living arrangements.   

The Room Swap function, within the Campus Housing portal,  gives you the opportunity to change your building and/or room up until 11:59 p.m. on the last day of the Room Selection window.  Room Swap will allow you to see what other buildings and rooms are available and will allow you to move yourself into a new space. If you are in a Living Learning Program (LLP), you will only see bed spaces within that LLP. You can go through Room Swap and change rooms as many times as you want up until 11:59 PM on the last day of the Room Selection window.   

If you are having trouble locating a certain room type within our system, it may be because those room types have all been filled and are no longer available to select. Some room types are popular and reserved more quickly. You are welcome to check back within the Campus Housing portal of myUK as often as you like to see if other students change their minds and release your preferred room type. There can be no guarantees that this will occur, but it does happen occasionally as students solidify their plans for the fall semester.

The decision to find off-campus accommodations is a personal decision for each student. The university does not provide housing location services, but there are a number of apartment complexes and houses near campus. If you are certain of your plans to live off campus, you will want to formally cancel your 2024-2025 Campus Housing and Dining Application and Contract. 

• The deadline for new students to cancel their housing applications in myUK without incurring cancellation fees is June 1.
• Returning students must cancel their housing applications in myUK by February 28 to avoid cancellation fees. 
• All other cancellation windows reflect the schedule as outlined in the 2024-2025 UK Campus Housing and Dining contract.

To formally cancel your UK Campus Housing Application and Contract, you will need return to the campus housing portal within myUK and follow these steps: 

1. Go to myUK (myUK.uky.edu)
2. Log in using your linkblue username and password
3. Select Student Services
4. Select myInfo
5. Select Campus Housing to be taken to the Campus Housing portal
6. Select Undergraduate Application
7. Select “Click here to cancel” under the term you wish to cancel
8. Click CANCEL next to the application/booking/contract you wish to cancel

If you experience any difficulty canceling your Campus Housing Application and Contract, please contact UK Campus Housing at ukhousing@uky.edu or 859-257-1866.

If you have any questions throughout the application process, including Room Selection and Room Swap, please call us at (859) 257-1866 or email us at ukhousing@uky.edu.