Housing

The Office of International Relations at NTNU is responsible for allocating accommodation for international students and these students cannot book a room themselves at the Students Welfare Organization, SiT (Studentsamskipnaden i Trondheim). All international students who have applied for an exchange period at NTNU will receive information about housing from the Office of International Relations before their arrival.

Once you applied for an exchange period at NTNU before the deadline, you automatically applied for housing (unless you specified in the form that you will arrange for housing on your own). You should not, under any circumstances, contact SiT about housing before you have received a housing contract directly from SiT.

Unfortunately, NTNU cannot guarantee housing for all incoming exchange students. Accepted exchange students from countries outside of the EU/EEA are guaranteed housing due to visa regulations. All students who have applied for studies at NTNU in the fall semester will be informed about housing in time before their arrival.

Students who have applied within the deadline ( May 1^st for the fall semester / October 1^st for the spring semester) and have been accepted, will be prioritized for housing. This does not mean, however, that you are guaranteed housing. If you for some reason applied after the deadline October 1st you will therefore not be prioritized for housing since students who applied before the deadline will be first in line when the rooms are being allocated. This means that if there are vacant rooms at the student village after we have allocated available rooms we may however give you a room. But be aware that there is no guarantee that we may offer you housing.

Due to the fact that we have a lot of exchange students at NTNU and not enough rooms available at the student villages, the Office of International Relations cannot allocate housing for PhD's. However, PhD's from the Quota programme and HEC-students financed by SiU are exempted from this rule. Otherwise, though, in general if you are a PhD student, you are considered an NTNU employee, and there are different programmes to help you with housing which you can read about here.

The Students Welfare Organization, SiT, is a non-profit organization led by the students through their majority in the board. The rules require that up to 30% of the rooms in the student villages are allocated to international students, but not more. NTNU has to adhere to this rule and so has to prioritize who will get student housing. 

Priority will be given to students coming from partner universities where NTNU has an exchange agreement (this does not mean however that all students from partner institutions will be allocated housing). We will also give the priority a certain geographical profile.

Students who are not provided housing by SiT has to find private housing on their own. (It is usually easier to find housing in the spring semester, both at the student village and in Trondheim's private housing market.)

Students who have to find private housing may find more information in this webpage http://www.ntnu.edu/studies/searching-for-private-housing

Students who are lucky and are allocated housing at SiT or Persaunet by the Office of International Relations will find important information on these webpages.