Top Universities Where Most Students Live on Campus

With summer break in full swing for most high school graduates, navigating the long, challenging road that is obtaining a college degree won’t begin until late August. And while your calendar is already chock-full with summer fun, consider this: The country is facing a shortage of on-campus student housing at public and private schools. So perhaps between attending that beach party, block party and annual beach block party, it’s essential that you figure out where you’re going to live this fall.

According to the National Multi Housing Council, areas with the highest campus housing shortages include Arizona, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota and West Virginia. But despite the shortage, some universities are still housing a majority of their students on campus. Check out the top 10 national universities with the highest percentage of undergraduates living in campus housing (as of Fall 2011):

• Harvard University – 98%
• Princeton University – 97%
• California Institute of Technology – 95%
• Columbia University – 95%
• Stanford University – 91%
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 90%
• St. Mary’s University of Minnesota – 89%
• Yale University – 88%
• Dartmouth College – 86%
• Vanderbilt University – 86%

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