Private nonprofit · Prescott, AZ

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

3,092 full-time students in fall 2024 and college-controlled housing for 1,503: about 48.6 beds for every 100 full-time students. The other 1,589 live somewhere the college doesn't control. That is the outer edge of the private market, before you take out commuters and students living with family.

1,503 college-controlled beds (48.6 per 100 full-time) 1,589 full-time students beyond them
3,264total students, fall 2024
3,092full-time
$8,900typical housing charge, 2024-25 academic year
$20,452aid office off-campus food and housing budget

Enrollment

Of 3,264 students enrolled in fall 2024, 3,229 were undergraduates and 35 graduate students. 0% studied exclusively online, students who don't need a bed near campus. Headcount fell by 22 from fall 2023 (−0.7%).

Housing the college controls

IPEDS counts 1,503 beds of institutionally controlled housing for 2024-25. That figure is the school's own capacity, on or off campus, so it includes halls the college leases or manages but not private buildings that simply market to students. Capacity grew by 29 beds from the year before (1,474 in 2023-24).

What students pay

The typical 2024-25 housing charge for a student sharing a room was $8,900 for the academic year, roughly $989 a month spread over nine months. Food added $6,028. For aid purposes the school budgets $14,928 for food and housing on campus and $20,452 for a student living off campus away from family, $5,524 more.

Those are the college's own figures. Private by-the-bed rents near campus can sit well above or below them, so check current asking rents before you underwrite a project.

How lenders read a campus like this

At 3,264 students the campus is below the 10,000-student minimum in Fannie Mae's Multifamily Guide for Dedicated Student Housing (Part III, Chapter 1, section 103.01). Freddie Mac has no stated enrollment floor, but its own product summary says most of its student housing loans are at schools with 15,000 or more students. Banks, debt funds and conventional multifamily programs are the likelier lenders here.

To size a specific property, use the student housing loan sizer. It works by the bed and shows which constraint sets the loan.

Among the 8 Arizona campuses on this site, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott ranks number 8 by full-time students beyond college housing. See the Arizona table.

Source: Fall 2024 enrollment, IPEDS DRVEF2024 (provisional release, December 2025); 2024-25 housing capacity and charges, IPEDS COST1_2024 (December 2025); IPEDS HD2025 directory (July 2026). Beds per 100 and the gap are arithmetic on those figures.
MeasureValue
Total enrollment, fall 20243,264
Total enrollment, fall 20233,286
Full-time students3,092
Undergraduates (full-time)3,229 (3,060)
Graduate students35
Exclusively online0%
College-controlled housing capacity, 2024-251,503
Capacity, 2023-241,474
Beds per 100 full-time students48.6
Typical housing charge, academic year$8,900
Typical food charge, academic year$6,028
Aid budget, food and housing on campus$14,928
Aid budget, food and housing off campus$20,452
All first-time, full-time students required to live in college housingNo
Combined food and housing charge (if not split)not reported

IPEDS unit ID 104586. Yavapai County. School website. Figures are as the institution reported them to the National Center for Education Statistics. The live-on question asks whether every first-time, full-time student must live in college housing; a school with exemptions or a later-year requirement can answer no. How this data is built.