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Extensive collaboration and mobility between our campuses create an integrated, dynamic York community that you will soon become a part of!

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Keele campus tours.

Meet current students for a virtual or in-person tour and discover how York will soon have you feeling right at home! Learn about our outstanding facilities and community, as you make new friends and ask all of your questions about university life. Your tour guides are current students who will give you an insider's perspective (and some fun trivia!) on life at York.

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Discover Glendon’s vibrant green spaces and welcoming atmosphere! Meet our student ambassadors who will show you around our beautiful midtown campus, share their personal experiences and answer any questions that you might have. Explore an exciting blend of historical and modern facilities, and learn about services and activities on campus. Tours are offered in English, French, or bilingually

Tours will be continually offered throughout the summer. Please check back in early May for new dates and to make your reservation. Additional visit dates will be added weekly. Feel free to contact us at [email protected] with any questions about tours.

Faculty-Specific Tours

Explore additional tour opportunities hosted by your Academic Faculty, allowing you to step into the state-of-the-art facilities, studios and labs where you'll study this Fall!

Current offerings:

• Book a tour with the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) 
• Book a tour with the  Faculty of Science
• Book a tour with the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC)
• Book a tour with Lassonde School of Engineering

Check back for additional offerings. Kindly note that faculty tour offerings may subject to capacity restrictions and/or subject to limited availability. To view additional sessions hosted by our academic faculties, visit our event calendar.

Group Visits

If you are part of a school or community group that would like to tour campus or participate in special information sessions designed just for you, please contact [email protected] to arrange your Keele Campus visit or [email protected]  to arrange your Glendon Campus visit. 

How to Get to Campus

Keele Campus

Keele campus 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 [email protected]

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Glendon Campus

Glendon campus 2275 Bayview Avenue Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M6 416-487-6710

Keele Campus offers a vibrant and welcoming, large-scale campus experience for over 52,000 students and features scenic walking paths, eight residences,  With a range of cutting-edge research and innovation opportunities and state-of-the-art academic, arts, technology, and athletic facilities, Keele is a meeting place for a network of micro-communities and changemakers. Our campus offers you unparalleled opportunities and experiences to curate your own education, scholarship, personal growth and contribution to positive action.

Address:  4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3 Phone:  416-736-2100 Campus Map

Glendon ’s beautiful, park-like campus is set in a scenic mid-town neighbourhood,  moments from downtown Toronto.

Glendon is York University’s founding campus located in the heart of Toronto. You will discover our dynamic and diverse community of changemakers pursuing valuable degrees in the Liberal Arts, Languages, Business and Sciences. On average, there are 26 students per class, which allows for close connections with professors and classmates. Glendon is the ONLY university campus in Canada to offer bilingual or trilingual International Bachelor degrees across all programs. Glendon students are welcome to take courses at our Keele Campus and vice versa.

Address: 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M6 Phone: 416-487-6710 See Campus Map

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York Virtual Visit Undergraduate

Welcome to York Virtual Visit for undergraduate students!

We know choosing where to study your undergraduate degree is a big decision. So we've created this virtual event experience to help you find out if York is right for you, all from the comfort of your own home. Whether you've already been to an in-person event or not, we'll guide you through our highlights step-by-step and give you all the key information you need.

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First up - a welcome from our Vice-Chancellor

Just like our in-person events, we're starting off with an introduction to York from our Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Charlie Jeffery (5 mins).

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Up next - how to make the most of your virtual visit.

Meet our student guides - Mi Chelle, Zoe, Amy, Ciya and Tania. You'll see them throughout your virtual visit. Here they are to explain how York Virtual Visit can help you while you're choosing a university (1 min).

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There are eight undergraduate residences at York University's Keele Campus. Each is unique and distinct in what it offers students in terms of lifestyle, facilities, and in-house resources and programs.  Check out some examples  of student rooms or visit each residence page for more information.

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My advice for choosing your accommodation

23 February 2021 by Tara

Choosing what accommodation you live in for 1st year always seems like an incredibly daunting task because a lot rests on this decision; it’s easily one of the most common questions I am asked as a student ambassador.

That being said, my biggest tip would honestly be to not let it stress you out. At the end of the day, I know people who got their last choice and met their best friends in that flat and those who got their first choice and wished they hadn’t (me!). (Disclaimer – people rarely get a choice low down their preference list, so don’t panic). Nevertheless, it is important that you look forward to moving to uni and feel comfortable where you are, so there are a few things that I’d suggest you consider.

What facilities are important to you?

Firstly, you are incredibly lucky because the uni have created virtual tours of each accommodation and I am so jealous – I wish I’d had these, instead of relying on my terrible memory and some online photos. The two biggest considerations will be whether you’d like to be catered or self-catered and whether you’re bothered about having an en suite.

Catered or self-catered

The colleges offering catered accommodation are Vanbrugh, James & Derwent. Basically, if you’ve got your heart set on a hearty breakfast and dinner every weekday, your choice is made easy because you’re narrowed down to three colleges. Within these three colleges, you can choose an ensuite or shared bathroom as well as between bands 1, 2 or 3 (we’ll get onto bands in the next section). Catering does obviously cost extra per week, but the bonus is that the cost of the majority of your food is already accounted for. On the flip side, you do have to adhere to the meal times set by the college catering venue which is great if you have a regular schedule, but not so great if you’re out and about a lot. Although, you can take away your meals and don’t have to eat there and then.

Ensuite or shared bathroom

If you’re after an ensuite (which also isn’t the be-all and end-all like my 17-year-old self thought) you have the choice of all colleges, so your job just got harder and your spending higher. Unsurprisingly, ensuites do cost more per week than a shared bathroom. The shared bathrooms get cleaned weekly, however, as do the kitchens, so you won’t find yourself living in other people’s mess (for an extended period of time anyway…).

What price bracket suits you? AKA which band

Accommodation at York is split into ‘bands’ which refer to the cost and standard of the accommodation. Band 1 is the lowest and 4 the highest. For instance, Halifax provides band 1 shared bathroom, self-catered accommodation for £99 per week whilst Langwith and Constantine offer band 4 rooms which include a ¾ sized bed, ensuite and weekly college meal at £179 per week. There are other options available for these colleges, but those are just at either end of the spectrum. Naturally, there are more rooms which fall into band 2 and 3 and most people will probably find a good balance in one of these options.

Consider your college, but not too much…

Something else I get a LOT of questions about from confused prospective students is the collegiate system at York because it’s different to elsewhere. Essentially, your college is just your accommodation. Each college has a few accommodation blocks centred around a common room or hub and its own mailroom and staff, but it doesn’t matter for much more than that.

My advice is that if you’re interested in sport, have a look at what teams each college has because some offer a lot more choice than others. Also, whether they offer the facilities you’re after (catered/self-catered). Other than that, just go for the accommodation type you like the look of!

Location is something to take into consideration, but once again, it’s not a huge deal. Because York is a campus university rather than a city-based one, the accommodation is interspersed with the department buildings and facilities. You might be wondering why I haven’t mentioned that there are two campuses yet if you’ve done some research already, but the short answer is that this shouldn’t affect your choice, in my opinion.

The campuses are only a 15-20 minute walk away and a free bus runs between them every few minutes. For example, my friends lived on a different campus to me and to where our department building was, but would just hop on the bus or walk to lectures. My whole friendship group, apart from me, actually met on the bus to lectures once they realised they were all on the same course. There is everything you need on each campus (bars, study spaces, gyms, food shops), so you need not ever leave!

To summarise (well done if you made it to the end)

I would choose accommodation based on ensuite/shared bathroom, catered/self-catered and how much ‘luxury’ you want (or can budget for…). I’d definitely look through the virtual tours online too for each college to get a great feel for what it’s like to be there. Overall, your accommodation is one tiny part of your uni experience and it’s really important not to stress about it (I wish my younger self knew this). Make an informed choice, but don’t take weeks to deliberate over it and know that you can make the most out of wherever you live.

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I’m Tara and I’m a fourth year studying MSci Psychology.

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International students

Moving to another country can be a daunting prospect, but with all of our accommodation located on or very near to our compact and safe campus, you’ll soon feel at home in York.

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If you're paying overseas tuition fees, you're guaranteed an offer of a room in single-occupancy accommodation owned, managed or approved by the University, provided you meet our guarantee criteria and apply by our deadline dates.

Find out more about room types, costs, our accommodation guarantee and how to apply for accommodation.

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Room types and prices

We offer a range of self-catered and catered accommodation options with ensuite and shared bathrooms available. We cannot accommodate f lats or blocks for one specific gender - all of our accommodation is mixed-gender.

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You'll be a member of one of our eleven colleges throughout your time here. As well as being your home if you choose to live on campus, your college is also a built-in community, helping you to make friends and settle into York and the UK.

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Let lengths

Our 40- and 44-week undergraduate let lengths cover the full academic year from September until July - including all vacations.

51-week lets are also available to undergraduate and postgraduate students and include accommodation over the summer vacation - which is ideal if you’re planning to stay in the UK between academic years.

Families and couples

We can offer some accommodation to students who want to bring their families or partners to York. You'll be given higher priority in our allocation policy than UK students.

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For many students, living on-campus and in residence provides great opportunities to connect with new friends and meet people from different backgrounds and cultures. Other students may prefer the chance to live elsewhere in Toronto. This section will give you useful information on what to consider as you make a decision about where to live.

On Campus Housing

Both undergraduate or graduate students who decide to live on York’s Keele or Glendon campuses will be within walking distance of everything they need.

York’s Keele campus is like a small city unto itself, complete with shops , sports and fitness facilities , art galleries parks and green spaces , restaurants , cafés and pubs, while York’s Glendon campus offers a more intimate  university experience that is immersed in mid-town Toronto’s Lawrence Park neighbourhood.

If you choose to live on campus, York University offers many housing options designed to fit your needs. Many undergraduate students choose to live on-campus in a shared accommodation, called "residence". Living in residence can help make the transition to university and to living in a new country easier because you will be surrounded by peers, and will enjoy the ease of not having to shop for food and cook for yourself.

Note: All students are required to provide their own linens, however housing services will be pleased to loan you some until you are able to purchase your own.

Keele Campus

York’s eight undergraduate residences at the Keele campus offer shared or private room accommodation and have distinct lifestyles, facilities, resources and programs.  Please note that all undergraduate residence accommodations are shared in some ways, as only some bedrooms can be fully private. For detailed information about residence at the Keele Campus and virtual tours of our residence rooms please click here . Keele residences are divided into two complexes .

Graduate, Mature Students and Students with Family

York Apartments welcome eligible graduate students, Osgoode law students and students with families (spouse/children) admitted to York University. Students must maintain their registration status at York in a full-time degree program and must not accumulate debt on their student account in order to maintain their eligibility for residence.

The apartments are conveniently located on the York Keele campus and are within walking distance to classes and all campus amenities. For students living with their family, York’s graduate apartments contain a community playground and the nearby Atkinson Residence offers a daycare facility.

The York University Apartments offer both furnished and unfurnished apartments, and include bachelor, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units. There are also adapted units for students who require wheelchair access or visual alarm.

Glendon Campus

If you choose to live on-campus at York University’s Glendon campus , you will get to be a part of a small, bilingual (English and French) University campus. With only 400 on-campus residents, divided between 2 residence buildings, Glendon offers a unique living opportunity.

If you are a graduate student at York’s Glendon College, visit Glendon’s on-campus housing webpage for more information about on-campus housing options that are available to you.

Off-Campus Housing

Many students choose to live off of York’s campus, in an apartment or house in the city. Depending on your finances and your personal preferences, it is possible for you to live alone, or with other students as roommates.

Finding suitable off-campus housing can be a difficult task for all students, but because knowledge of the city is required in order to know the best areas for a York student to live, international students are faced with additional challenges.

As a starting point, the neighbourhoods found in the “Downtown” and “Midtown” areas of the city are always popular with York students who chose to live off-campus because of their close proximity to the Yonge-University subway line ,  and an abundance of student-friendly businesses and housing options.  This interactive map of Toronto's neighbourhoods can help you to understand the characteristics of each area.

A listing of some of the available off-campus housing for York University students can be found on our Off-Campus Housing website . If you desire a more central urban location, student residents for consideration include Neill Wycik Co-operative, Tartu College and Campus Co-op .

Know Your Rights and Obligations

In Ontario, the signing of a 12-month lease is common practice when renting an apartment. Consider if this year-long commitment works with your schedule as an international student.

The Ontario Government’s Landlord and Tenant Board’s website can provide you with important information about your rights and obligations when renting an apartment in Ontario.

While most landlords are honest, there are people who are willing to take advantage of international students. It is important to make every effort to avoid fraudulent landlords. Descriptions of some of the most common rental scams can be found here .

York University cannot guarantee the suitability of any off-campus housing and advises students to take caution when leasing non-York housing. We strongly recommend that you visit the neighbourhood during day and evening hours, meet the landlord and inspect the property before agreeing to rent. Taking the time to do so will ensure you are able to make an informed decision about important factors including neighbourhood safety, accessibility, lighting, and maintenance.

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Meal plans/ yu card.

York University offers Meal Plans to meet that needs of all students.   A meal plan is required for students who live on-campus in traditional style residences and optional for students who live on-campus in suite-style or apartment housing.

When you select a plan, a pre-paid balance will be added to your YorkU student card. You will then be able to swipe it at any of the many restaurants, cafeterias and cafes on York’s campuses and your purchase will be automatically debited from your Meal Plan account.

For detailed information about the various Meal Plans available, visit the Food Services website . With the YU Card, you will not have to pay taxes at the food outlets on campuses which is the HST (currently 13%). At the beginning of the year, Food Services may offer discount coupons at participating outlets.

YorkU’s campuses offer a variety of food vendors to choose from.  The restaurants, pubs, cafes and food stalls offer foods from around the world.

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A member of the Russell Group, the University of York has grown from modest beginnings into one of the most prestigious higher education institutions in the north of England. Opening in 1963 with just 230 students, it’s now home to around 16,000, who enjoy the convenient, central location of its main Heslington campus, a short walk from York’s historic centre.

Expanding rapidly in recent years, the university provides world-class facilities to those studying in areas such as history, languages, music and philosophy, as well as students taught by its Faculty of Sciences. Its purpose-built Computer Sciences facility is a stimulating environment for the technically minded and is one of the leading centres of its type in the UK. Those seeking a career in medicine will have the impressive facilities of the Hull York Medical School, a collaboration with the University of Hull, to enhance their studies. The university’s research activities expand beyond the realms of science, covering areas including Culture and Communication, Creativity, and Justice and Equality. Many of the University of York’s departments enjoy an international reputation for their high-quality, innovative approach to research, and its York Graduate Research School counts more than 2,000 international members.

The Heslington campus is an attractive one, covering more than 200 acres of parkland and centred around lakes. It is renowned for its collection of wildfowl, the origin of the popular ‘Duck of the Day’ Twitter account. You will also find geese, swans, rabbits and all sorts of other wildlife on campus, and a number of sculptures and works of art add to the inspiring atmosphere.

Our iQ site, The Brickworks, lies to the north east of York city centre, within walking distance of the University of York. It has large social areas including TV, pool table and dining tables, as well as onsite laundry facilities and an outdoor courtyard.

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