Gender-Inclusive Housing

Gender-inclusive housing is open to all students whose needs are not met by our traditional housing assignment process that assigns roommates who are the same legal sex (male students with male students and female students with female students) on their housing application. 

Each Miami University residential facility is considered "co-ed," meaning they house both male and female students. The sorority community, for upperclass female students, is the only single-sex facility. Gender-inclusive housing differs as it removes biological sex as a factor during the roommate assignment process.

Gender-inclusive housing is a voluntary housing option. A student will not be assigned to gender-inclusive housing without requesting it. This housing option is intended students who wish to share assigned living space with students of a different biological sex.

No. Depending upon your individual need and request, you can request to be assigned into a variety of LLCs. First-year students are assigned housing by their LLC request (not a specific facility) and there are several LLCs that can accommodate a request for gender-inclusive housing. 

No. There are a limited number of single rooms across campus, the majority of rooms are double (two-person) rooms. Students affiliated with the Miller Center for Student Disability Services are given priority in single-space assignments. Depending upon your individual needs or situation, affiliating with the Miller Center might best serve you.

Students assigned into gender-inclusive housing will be located in a facility that contains multiple bathroom styles, including single user bathrooms that are lockable. A single user bathroom is a space that has a single sink, shower, and toilet.

Gender-inclusive housing is located in any residential facility that contains multiple bathroom styles, including single user bathrooms that are lockable. A single user bathroom is a space that has a single sink, shower and toilet.

Applicants are highly encouraged, but not required, to self-select their roommates. If you are unable to identify roommates and would like to live in gender-inclusive housing, Residence Life staff will pair you with other students who have also requested gender-inclusive housing during the assignment process.

All students must complete and submit a housing application in order to be assigned to on-campus housing. If you would like to request gender-inclusive housing, please also complete this questionnaire.

Miami University deeply respects parents' involvement in their children’s lives, but students are seen as adults with the ability to make a housing request that is most comfortable for them.