Colchester Campus accommodation 

You're welcome to request an allocation with your friends. You should list their PRIDs in the 'additional information' field on the online application form. Each of your friends must also submit their own separate application and have the same preferences as you. Please note that we cannot guarantee we will be able to allocate you and your friends as a group.

Applications are now open.

Undergraduates

•  2022-2023 Colchester undergraduate returning accommodation application form

You will need your Essex username and password to be able to apply.

Postgraduate

• 2022-2023 Colchester postgraduate returning accommodation application form (pdf.)

You are required to complete a PDF form, please note that these are interactive PDF forms. You must save a copy of it to your device before completing your information. If you do not save this file to your device, you will lose any information you have filled in. The submit button will then attach the form to an email ready to send to us. Alternatively, please send via email to vacaccom@essex.ac.uk

Northwest Partnership

Accommodation is guaranteed to Northwest University students, as long as you accept your accommodation offer by the offer expiry date.

• 2022-2023 Colchester North West Partnership returning accommodation application form

You will need your Essex username and password to be able to apply.

Rooms will then be offered, as and when they become available. Rooms will be prioritised in the following order:

• Welfare/medical need undergraduates and postgraduates
• Part-year, incoming study abroad and Erasmus students, who fall outside the guaranteed quota of rooms
• New overseas fees undergraduates and postgraduates
• New home fees undergraduates and postgraduates
• Returning study abroad students (including Erasmus +) students and work placement abroad students
• All other work placement students
• All other full-time undergraduates and postgraduates
• All part-time undergraduates and postgraduates
• Returning part year students
• Continuation and completion students

Offers are being sent out on a regular basis, so please make sure you check your email account regularly for your offer (including your junk folder).

Accepting your offer

You will need to accept your offer of accommodation before its expiry date in order to confirm your allocation for the next academic year. The offer expiry date will be clearly specified in the offer letter.

Once you have accepted the offer you have formed a contract which is binding and you will not be able to give notice on the room unless you withdraw from the University.

If you have withdrawn temporarily from Essex (intermitted) during the first term of the first year of study and decide to return the following academic year, you may re-apply for accommodation.

How to apply

Contact us in January of the year in which you intend to return to your studies.