Advice for Housing at TAMU (Petroleum Eng. Student)

[Digger]

Hello everyone,

 

As a prospective petroleum engineering student at Texas A&M University, I am looking for the most suitable place for housing. I am expecting an on campus housing since I would not be able to have any transportations there. Anyone has a recommendation in which housings should I apply?

 

Thanks in advance!

[msocean]

Hello everyone,

 

As a prospective petroleum engineering student at Texas A&M University, I am looking for the most suitable place for housing. I am expecting an on campus housing since I would not be able to have any transportations there. Anyone has a recommendation in which housings should I apply?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

At College Station?

[Digger]

Sorry I forgot to write the location, it is at College Station

[Donk]

I would not want to live on campus as a grad student. If the only reason you are looking for on-campus is because of transportation, then I would definitely look into off campus. A&M has an excellent and reliable off-campus bus system that reaches a significant area around campus. During the day most routes have a bus every ten minutes at least. The bus routes are posted on transportation.tamu.edu. In fact, riding the bus often gets you closer to your class buildings than driving yourself would anyway (buses drop off in the middle of campus; most commuter student parking lots are a long walk from anywhere or require you to park and THEN catch a bus).

 

If you really want to live on campus, look into the university apartments. Failing that, check out the modular dorms -- the rooms are bigger and they have private bathrooms. The single rooms in Hughes are ok too, as dorms go. There are some newly renovated dorms that are probably pretty nice too (Northside Hall). Look at http://reslife.tamu.edu/housing/default.asp for a helpful chart.