Stony Brook University student housing

Stony Brook University is the largest residential campus in the State University of New York system,^[1] with approximately 54.5% of its students living on campus.^[2] Housing at Stony Brook is issued and controlled by Stony Brook University Campus Residences, which provides 9,445 spaces in its 11 corridor style buildings, 19 suite style buildings, and 23 apartment style buildings^[1] to Undergraduate students, Graduate students, and students' families. The large majority of on-campus housing is provided to students on the university's west campus, but housing is available to those on east campus, and for Stony Brook Southampton students.

Campus residences is tied to Stony Brook's Undergraduate Colleges initiative in order to provide a better^[vague] residential experience for the undergraduate community, especially for those in their first year.^{[citation needed]} As such, the placement of all first year undergraduates and transfers is based on their Undergraduate College assignment (based on student interest, not major).^[3] Graduate students are not placed in the same manner, and are instead assigned housing based on preference and availability of space.