Rates & costs

Please review our room rates listed below. It is important to compare the costs of our residence halls and see how different living environments compare with each other. For a list of accommodations within each hall, please visit the Residence halls section of our website.

Summer 2020

The rate for summer term housing is $22/night. Visit the summer housing page for additional information.

2020-21 Residence Hall Rates

2020-21 room rates have been approved by the Board of Regents:

Residence Hall	Style	Semester	Year	Additional Fees
Angell Hall	Cube	$2,014.50	$4,029	N/A
Coate Hall	Cube	$2,014.50	$4,029	N/A
Drake Hall	Cube	$2,014.50	$4,029	N/A
Eagle Hall - Gray*	Suite	$2,389.00	$4,778	N/A
Eagle Hall - Maroon*	Suite	$2,389.00	$4,778	$400 non-refundable fee for Outdoor Recreation Community
Hutchison Hall	Cube	$2,014.50	$4,029	N/A
Laux Hall	Wing	$2,014.50	$4,029	N/A
Reuter Hall	Apartment	$3,078.50	$6,157	N/A
Sanford Hall	Wing	$2,014.50	$4,029	N/A
Wentz Hall	Wing	$2,014.50	$4,029	N/A
White Hall	Wing	$2,014.50	$4,029	N/A

*Eagle Hall rooms are extended housing. The rooms accommodate three students due to the demand for on-campus living. Students who live in an Eagle room with two other people have their normal room rate reduced by $200 per semester. If a room has only 2 people in it, the housing rate will be adjusted to the normal double room rate of $2,589.00/semester for each student. This will be prorated based on the date of the occupancy change.

Residence Hall and Room Styles

Cube, Wing, and Traditional Halls

To help with your comparison, please review these Residence Hall type descriptions. For more detailed descriptions, please visit The Residence Halls section of our website.

What is a cube?

Cube buildings are comprised of two or three, four-story, cube-shaped buildings, interconnected by hallways between the cubes. Resident rooms comprise the outside walls of the structure and surround a common stairwell and shared bathroom space.

What is a wing?

Wing residence halls have long running hallways with student rooms on either side.

What does traditional mean?

Traditional means students live in standard double rooms in a living community sharing a common, large-bathroom facility.

Traditional Double

What is a traditional double?

Traditional Doubles are two-person rooms in all halls except Eagle and Reuter Halls.

Traditional Double

Traditional Triple

Traditional Triples are three-person, corner rooms in our cube halls: Angell, Coate, Drake and Hutchison Halls.

Traditional Triple

Traditional Triple Floor Plan

Suites & Apartments

What is a suite?

Eagle Maroon or Eagle Gray Suite Triples are three-person rooms sharing a bathroom with the adjoining suite.

What is an apartment?

Reuter Apartment - single person bedroom in an apartment with three other single bedrooms. The apartment features a common living room, kitchen, and bathroom for the four roommates. The image to the right is an example of one of 11 floor plans available in Reuter Hall.

Extended housing: Three-person Double

Three-person double rooms

Three-person double rooms are a limited number of extended housing rooms available in all halls except Eagle and Reuter Halls. These traditional double space rooms have been converted to accommodate three students. These rooms have a reduced housing rate of $400 per semester.

If you have further questions regarding this housing option, please contact the Office of Residence Life at housing@uwlax.edu or 608.785.8075.

Traditional double

Three-person double room

Extended Housing: Four-person Quad

Quads are a limited number of extended housing spaces accommodating four students available in Laux, Sanford, Wentz and White Halls. Quads are large rooms similar to the size of two regular double occupancy rooms or larger (size: approximately 30’ long x 12’ wide x 8’ high).