Private nonprofit · New York, NY
New York University
49,928 full-time students in fall 2024 and college-controlled housing for 13,180: about 26.4 beds for every 100 full-time students. The other 36,748 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.
Enrollment
Of 56,832 students enrolled in fall 2024, 29,060 were undergraduates and 27,772 graduate students. 6% studied exclusively online, students who don't need a bed near campus. Headcount fell by 503 from fall 2023 (−0.9%).
Housing the college controls
IPEDS counts 13,180 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 603 beds from the year before (12,577 in 2023-24).
What students pay
The typical 2024-25 housing charge for a student sharing a room was $17,080 for the academic year, roughly $1,898 a month spread over nine months. Food added $6,450. For aid purposes the school budgets $23,530 for food and housing on campus and $23,530 for a student living off campus away from family, the same amount.
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
With 56,832 students, most of them full-time, the campus clears the 10,000-student minimum in Fannie Mae's Multifamily Guide for Dedicated Student Housing (Part III, Chapter 1, section 103.01, effective September 28, 2026). Under sections 103.01 and 103.03 a property still has to sit within 2 miles of the campus boundary or near a college-run transit line, have operated a full school year, and lease at least 80% of units for 12 months.
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 65 New York campuses on this site, New York University ranks first by full-time students beyond college housing. See the New York table.
Other campuses in New York
- Barnard College: 3,234 full-time, 2,427 beds
- CUNY Bernard M Baruch College: 15,015 full-time, 288 beds
- CUNY City College: 11,705 full-time, 589 beds
- CUNY Hunter College: 15,779 full-time, 706 beds
- CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice: 10,560 full-time, 0 beds
- Columbia University in the City of New York: 28,886 full-time, 13,387 beds
- Fashion Institute of Technology: 7,103 full-time, 2,407 beds
- Pace University: 10,879 full-time, 3,561 beds
- School of Visual Arts: 3,684 full-time, 1,214 beds
- Teachers College at Columbia University: 3,252 full-time, 696 beds
- The New School: 8,381 full-time, 2,132 beds
- Touro University: 7,224 full-time, 403 beds
- Yeshiva University: 5,857 full-time, 1,961 beds
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Total enrollment, fall 2024 | 56,832 |
| Total enrollment, fall 2023 | 57,335 |
| Full-time students | 49,928 |
| Undergraduates (full-time) | 29,060 (28,012) |
| Graduate students | 27,772 |
| Exclusively online | 6% |
| College-controlled housing capacity, 2024-25 | 13,180 |
| Capacity, 2023-24 | 12,577 |
| Beds per 100 full-time students | 26.4 |
| Typical housing charge, academic year | $17,080 |
| Typical food charge, academic year | $6,450 |
| Aid budget, food and housing on campus | $23,530 |
| Aid budget, food and housing off campus | $23,530 |
| All first-time, full-time students required to live in college housing | No |
| Combined food and housing charge (if not split) | not reported |
IPEDS unit ID 193900. New York 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.