Roommate Information

All on-campus housing for Colorado Christian University is apartment style. Freshmen (first-year students) and some transfer students are housed apartments accommodating four to five individuals. Upperclassmen students are housed in apartments accommodating six or seven individuals.

Roommate Assignments

During your first year at CCU, roommates are assigned based upon a number of factors: a specific roommate request, sleeping schedules/patterns, cleanliness preferences, study habits, academic majors, etc. Our goal is to place together people who share similarities in these areas and try to honor specific roommate requests if they are mutual. You will receive your housing and roommate assignments after you are admitted to CCU. Please see the Admitted Student Checklist for information about the housing application process.

Returning CCU students select their own roommates and apartments for the coming year during the prior spring semester, often staying with their same group of freshmen roommates during their entire time at CCU!

Living Well with Roommates

Roommate Contract

Living with new people in a new environment offers great opportunities to make friends, build life-long relationships, create outstanding memories, and engage fully in community life.  Because many students coming to college have never shared a room (or a bathroom) with other persons, community living may also present challenges, and that’s why we ask on-campus residents to be proactive in developing positive roommate relations.  During the first week of school, residents must sit down with their roommates and develop a Roommate Contract, which assists students in laying foundational groundwork for living together on topics such as apartment cleaning schedules, roommate responsibilities regarding apartment security, use of other roommates’ personal property, regard for roommates’ sleeping patterns, etc. The contract serves as an official documentation of roommates’ mutual agreement to respect each other and their commitment to do their best to live in unity.

Roommate Conflict Resolution

CCU’s on-campus housing encourages open communication between its residents, encouraging individual responsibility and ownership for actions, and expects maturity from students when dealing with matters of conflict. If a roommate conflict arises, it is the roommates’ responsibility to first address each other and resolve their differences as is encouraged in Scripture (Matthew 18:15). If the conflict requires mediation or assistance from a third party, the students’ Resident Assistant (RA), Resident Director (RD), or a University Counseling Center staff member may be used as resources. When all options have been exhausted to resolve a conflict in a mature and Christ-like manner or in extreme situations, Residence Life reserves the right to make necessary changes in a student’s living arrangement in the best interest of the CCU community.  

See the CCU Student Handbook (PDF) for additional information.