University of New Brunswick Residence & Housing

No UNB page reviewed for this guide publishes a first-year residence guarantee. Saint John states plainly that if you apply and the residence is full, you will be placed on a waitlist, that new students are handled on a first-come-first-served basis, and that most years the residence fills by the end of May. Fredericton's apply page discloses that in 2023, Residence began operating with a waitlist by the end of May.

This is a real difference from universities that publish a dated first-year guarantee. Apply for residence as early as the campus allows rather than waiting for the May 15 confirmation date.

University of New Brunswick: Saint John residence admissions, waitlist, and returning students · Verified August 16, 2026

Renovated Residence — Aitken, Lady Dunn, Joy Kidd, Tibbits and Neville-Jones — is $6,489 yearly for a double, $8,631 single, $9,246 single with semi-private bathroom and $9,785 single with private bathroom. Classic Residence — Bridges, Harrison, Lady Beaverbrook and Mackenzie — is $5,720 double, $6,684 special double, $7,758 single and $8,493 super or special single. Neill House is $6,291 double, $8,370 single and $8,968 super single. Elizabeth Parr-Johnston runs $7,685, $9,497 and $10,143.

The Fredericton yearly rate already includes $70 in house dues and a $430 communication fee — $180 more than the Saint John communication fee — and the separately quoted total-including-deposit figures add the $800 application deposit.

University of New Brunswick: Fredericton residence and meal-plan fees for 2026-2027 · Verified August 16, 2026

Saint John has three residences. Barry and Flora Beckett is $7,975 yearly for a single with a semi-private bathroom and $8,202 for a single with a private bathroom. Sir James Dunn runs $5,550 double, $6,039 small single, $6,284 single, $6,751 large single, $6,976 super single, $7,932 super single plus and $8,160 for an apartment rate per person. Dr. Colin B. Mackay is $7,110 for a single in a two-bedroom suite and $8,103 for a single in a two-bedroom premium plus suite.

Saint John's yearly rate includes $70 house dues and a $250 communication fee, $180 less than Fredericton's communication fee.

University of New Brunswick: Saint John residence and meal-plan fees for 2026-2027 · Verified August 16, 2026

Fredericton's traditional houses are Aitken (capacity 86), Bridges (97), Harrison (97), Joy W. Kidd (162), Lady Beaverbrook (64), Lady Dunn Hall (88, co-ed with an all-female section), MacKenzie (99), Neill (94) and Neville-Jones (94), plus Tibbits Hall (127). Elizabeth Parr-Johnston is suite style with 68 furnished suites and is limited to graduate students and undergraduates in third year or later, and Magee House offers 101 unfurnished apartments for adult learners, graduate students, third-year-and-later undergraduates and students with families. Saint John's Mackay Residence has 164 standard suites plus three premium plus bedrooms.

Neill House and Neville-Jones House are described by UNB as mirror-image twins. Elizabeth Parr-Johnston and Magee are not first-year options.

University of New Brunswick: Fredericton traditional residence houses, capacities, and rooms · Verified August 16, 2026

The Infinite Plan is $6,262 yearly and includes $100 in dining cash, the Infinite Plus Plan is $6,462 and includes $300, and the Infinite Max Plan is $6,712 and includes $550. Both campus fee pages publish the same three prices, split $3,181, $3,381 or $3,631 in the fall and $3,081 in the winter. Winter-only students are charged and receive half of the dining cash associated with each plan.

The meal plan is roughly the same size as the room charge, so a Saint John double at $5,550 plus the Infinite Plan is closer to $11,812 than to $5,550.

University of New Brunswick: Fredericton residence and meal-plan fees for 2026-2027 · Verified August 16, 2026

The Fredericton residence fees page heads the Neill House rate block with the words no meal plan required. The Fredericton traditional residences page lists Neill House with Meal Plan: Required. Both are live first-party UNB pages and they say opposite things. Saint John has no such ambiguity: its fees page states that a meal plan is required for all students staying in residence.

A meal plan is a $6,262 decision. Do not choose Neill House on the assumption you can skip it — confirm in writing with Fredericton residence services first.

University of New Brunswick: Fredericton traditional residence houses, capacities, and rooms · Verified August 16, 2026

The Fredericton residence landing page says home to 13 residence buildings. The Fredericton residence listing says choose from one of the 12 fantastic residences on our Fredericton campus. The student life page says 15 different residences. The living-in-residence page says 16 residences: 13 on the Fredericton campus and 3 on the Saint John campus.

The browsable Fredericton listing enumerates twelve buildings. Saint John's count of three is consistent everywhere, so trust that one and treat the Fredericton number as approximate.

University of New Brunswick: Living in residence across both campuses · Verified August 16, 2026

Students applying to residence in Fredericton, excluding Magee House, must pay an $800 non-refundable residence application deposit by credit card at the time they submit the application. UNB states the deposit is deducted from the total academic year residence fees rather than charged on top, and that the remaining balance is divided between the fall and winter semesters.

University of New Brunswick: Apply for residence in Fredericton: deposit and assignment timing · Verified August 16, 2026

Saint John states that a residence deposit is required before a student can be accepted into residence, but does not publish the amount on either the residence admissions page or the fees page.

Every Saint John room type shows a consistent gap between its total-including-deposit figure and its yearly figure, but UNB does not label that gap as the deposit. Ask Saint John residence services rather than assuming the Fredericton amount.

University of New Brunswick: Saint John residence admissions, waitlist, and returning students · Verified August 16, 2026

Fredericton states that all students who submit their application and fee by March 30 will receive their fall term room assignment by June 1, while the central dates page lists July 15 for room assignments being made available and April 1 as the residence application fee deadline. Saint John requires returning students to re-apply by March 1, after which the roommate and room are not guaranteed. The 2026-2027 Fredericton calendar sets September 3 move-in for students new to residence and September 7 for returning students.

The March 30 and April 1 dates are one day apart on two different UNB pages. Work to March 30.

University of New Brunswick: Fredericton residence dates for the 2026-2027 year · Verified August 16, 2026

The Saint John fees page lists an apartment rate under Sir James Dunn labelled per month, per person, but publishes it alongside the other yearly rates with a per-semester split, and the Sir James Dunn building page describes only single and double room types without mentioning apartments at all.

Read the apartment line as an annual figure consistent with the surrounding table, but confirm before budgeting on it — the per-month label would change the number by an order of magnitude.

University of New Brunswick: Saint John residence and meal-plan fees for 2026-2027 · Verified August 16, 2026