Housing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), students are housed in eleven undergraduate dorms and nine graduate dorms. All undergraduate students are required to live in an MIT residence during their first year of study. Undergraduate dorms are usually divided into suites or floors, and usually have Graduate Resident Assistants (GRA), graduate students living among the undergraduates who help support student morale and social activities.^[1] Many MIT undergraduate dorms are known for their distinctive student cultures and traditions.

Both undergraduate and graduate dorms have a resident Head of House, usually a member of the MIT faculty, living in a special apartment suite within the building. Some larger dorms have multiple Heads of House, each responsible for a section of the building, who consult together on building-wide issues.

McCormick Hall is a women-only dorm; all other dorms are coeducational. Westgate and the Graduate Tower at Site 4 are designated for graduate student family housing, and all other dorms are reserved for single students.

In addition, a portion of MIT undergraduate upperclassmen live in MIT Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups (FSILGs),^[2] either on campus or nearby in Cambridge, Boston, or Brookline, Massachusetts.