Designed to enhance your residence hall experience, our comprehensive range of services aims to foster convenience, comfort, and community within the heart of campus life. From maintenance requests to laundry services and everything in between, discover how we're here to support your Spartan journey.
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Housing Services
Air Conditioning
Carpet Sizes
Laundry
Service Centers
Your residence hall service desk is your one-stop shop for check-in and check-out, picking up mail and packages, grabbing a temporary key or access card, exchanging linen packets, checking out a vacuum or broom, and much more!
Each neighborhood has at least one primary service center open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Trash and Recycling
Our residence halls do not have trash chutes. Large landfill bins are placed outside of each residence hall for waste disposal. All trash must be disposed of in these outdoor landfill bins.
Each residence hall has a recycling center, typically located in the lobby. These centers have bins for plastic, paper, metal, and glass. Cardboard can (and should) also be recycled in designated large bins located outside of residence halls near the landfill bins
Water Filters
Each year, Michigan State University’s water is tested. The results are included in an annual Water Quality Report.
Before you invest in a water filter, we recommend you try out the water once you get to campus. If you and your roommates decide you would like a water filter installed in your residence hall suite or apartment, you will need to purchase the filter and submit a maintenance request for the REHS Facilities team to install it.
Bed Size and Height
Residence hall beds require twin extra-long, 80" sheets. Beds are loftable, meaning they can be set at bunked, standard, trundled, or lofted height.
Double rooms will be set to one lofted and one trundled bed at move-in, unless the layout does not allow for this. Akers units will have three lofted beds and one trundled bed. While bed adjustments cannot be accommodated during move-in, residents can request a bed adjustment by submitting a maintenance request at liveon.msu.edu/maintenance. Facilities will begin bed adjustments in September.
- Standard - normal bed height
- Trundle - about 3 feet off the ground
- Lofted - 5 feet off the ground
- Bunked - one bed standard height, one bed lofted height above
Linen Exchange
Each traditional residence hall provides a linen package for each student upon request at the service centers. This white linen package includes twin, extra-long sheets, a pillowcase and two towels. The linen package can be exchanged weekly for clean linen at no additional cost.
If you would like to purchase colored sheets, they are also available in many retail stores. The University Activities Board also coordinates a linen sale as a fundraiser for their free events offered to students. Look for more details closer to move-in!
Resident Resources
Residence Hall Rules & Regulations
The university’s number one priority is your safety and academic success. For these reasons there are regulations specific to the residence halls and campus in general that help support these priorities. You can find these rules in the On-Campus Housing Handbook. If you have any questions, we encourage you to contact your resident assistant.
On-Campus Safety
REHS staff are concerned about the physical and mental health and safety of our students. REHS, in coordination with MSU Police and Counseling & Psychiatry Services (CAPS), works to provide a safe and healthy living environment for our residents.
Community Spaces
While at MSU, your residence hall is your home away from home. Our residence halls are grouped into five neighborhoods that share resources and common spaces.
In-Hall Health Resources
Our halls provide access to health-related resources, such as sharps' containers.
Fitness
Each neighborhood has cardio rooms available to residents. There also are weekly fitness classes offered throughout campus.
Technology Resources
Connect to Cable and Wi-Fi
Get online with all of your connected devices.
Eat at State
Eat at State offers a diverse range of food that caters to all dietary restrictions. In addition to having a plethora of food options, MSU Dining offers employment for students on campus.
Dining Locations
Find locations for the 8 on-campus dining halls and Combo-X-Change Locations
Nutrition and Allergens
Resources for dietary needs and nutrition
Heat in Halls
- Brody Neighborhood
Heat sensors & thermostats are not located in every room. If your room has a sensor, it will be located inside the room near the door. If your room does not have a sensor, it is controlled by a neighbor.
If there is a sensor in your room: keep items that generate heat or cold air away from the sensor. Also, be mindful of open windows and fans.
If issues are encountered with excess heat or cold in rooms that do not have a sensor in them, please check with your neighbors to see if they have left a window open or have some other item affecting the sensor’s ability to work properly.
- East Neighborhood
Your room does not have a thermostat. Your room's temperature is controlled by using the knob or chain on the top of the convector under the window.
If your room is too warm, turn the knob on the convector until the damper in the unit is closed. Open a window for further cooling if needed.
If your room is too cold, turn the knob on the convector to open the damper in the unit. Close your windows and blinds for further heat if needed.
Please remember not to cover the convector unit in your room – this will impede air flow and not allow the unit to work properly.
- North Neighborhood & Shaw Hall
Your room most likely does not have a thermostat. The temperature of your room is controlled by using the knob on the radiator, located underneath your window. Look for the directional arrow on the black or white knob to determine which direction is off and on.
If your room is too warm, turn the knob on the radiator off and open the window and blinds to allow colder air into the room.
If your room is too cold, be sure the knob is opened to allow steam to your radiator and close your windows and blinds.
Please remember not to cover the radiator unit in your room – this will impede air flow and not allow the unit to work properly.
- River Trail Neighborhood
Your room does not have a thermostat. Your room's temperature is controlled by using the knob or chain on the top of the convector under the window.
If your room is too warm, turn the knob on the convector until the damper in the unit is closed. Open a window for further cooling if needed.
If your room is too cold, turn the knob on the convector to open the damper in the unit. Close your windows and blinds for further heat if needed.
Please remember not to cover the convector unit in your room – this will impede air flow and not allow the unit to work properly.
- South Neighborhood
Your room most likely does not have a thermostat. The temperature of your room is controlled by using the knob on the radiator, located underneath your window. Look for the directional arrow on the black or white knob to determine which direction is off and on.
If your room is too warm, turn the knob on the radiator off and open the window and blinds to allow colder air into the room.
If your room is too cold, be sure the knob is opened to allow steam to your radiator and close your windows and blinds.
Please remember not to cover the radiator unit in your room – this will impede air flow and not allow the unit to work properly.
