Important Information About Living in the Summer Colleges
Whether you're returning or joining us for the first time, this page provides essential details about living in the Summer Colleges.
Here, you'll find everything you need to know about housing, amenities, policies, and more to ensure your summer experience is comfortable and enjoyable. Make sure to check back for any important updates or changes as your stay approaches.
On-Call
For any questions or issues during your time on-campus, please contact the Summer Colleges on-call number: (203) 436-8877. Please note that this number is not monitored except when students are in residence. After-hours, please only call this number for emergencies.
Summer Activities
The Summer Colleges staff curate an exciting collection of activities on-campus and trips around the state and region. You can find out more about the Summer 2025 activities at our Summer Colleges Activities page.
The Summer Colleges
If you are residing on campus, you will be housed in either Ezra Stiles, Grace Hopper, or Morse Colleges. Each has its own courtyard, dining hall, common room, library, and laundry facilities. Room assignments are given upon check-in at the Summer Colleges. You will most likely be housed in a suite with a common room and shared bath or a stand-alone single with a shared bath.
Students must live in the rooms to which they have been assigned and may not move without the express permission of the Head of Summer Colleges. Room changes are rare and exceptional, typically only for medical reasons with the support of Student Accessibility Services. In most cases, students living in the Summer Colleges will share a bedroom with another student; single bedrooms are rare.
Dining in the Summer Colleges
Meals featuring a wide variety of hot and cold food are served during three meal periods per day in the college dining halls. Students living on campus have a full 21-meal-per-week contract as part of the room and board package, which provides breakfast, lunch (or brunch) and dinner seven days a week.
The Morse College dining hall is open all summer. The Ezra Stiles College dining hall will open in late June.
- Breakfast: 7:30am - 10:30am
- Lunch: 11:30am - 2:00pm
- Dinner: 5:00pm - 7:30pm
[bulb] You can check out the dining menus on Yale Hospitality's website.
Summer Colleges Furnishings
Rooms in Yale's residential colleges are simply furnished. Each room contains:
- twin extra-long bed, mattress
- desk, chair, bureau
Students may also find furniture belonging to previous and returning occupants, which must not be removed or damaged.
Students should bring or purchase in New Haven:
- sheets (twin extra-long), blanket, pillow, & towels
- a desk lamp and a fan (if desired)
- a trash bin
[bulb] Household items are available for purchase at the Yale Bookstore. Fans may be used. Yale residential college rooms are not centrally air-conditioned and portable air conditioners are not permitted. Fire codes prohibit halogen lamps.
Laundry rooms with pay washers and dryers are located in the basement of each residential college.
Mail and Packages
You can find more information about receiving mail and packages at Yale Summer Session here. Yale Summer Session student mail.
Printing
Student printing is available on Yale's campus. There are printers in each of the libraries in the Summer Colleges. More printer locations are available around campus.
Cell Phones
Yale Summer Session residential students are required to have a working mobile telephone with an active service plan in the United States. Students must be reachable at a phone number, not internet applications which require a data connection, such as WhatsApp, WeChat, or Messenger. Students are advised to bring a cell phone with them or to purchase one upon arrival in New Haven. Students will have access to the on-campus Wi-Fi network.
Yale's Office of International Students and Scholars has an informational page about American cell phones and service plans for international students.
Curfew
Summer Colleges students who are under 18 years of age have a curfew of 11:00pm every night of the week while in residence. After a student has checked in for curfew, they must remain in their residential college until at least 7:00am the next morning. Leaving one's residential college after checking in for curfew is a serious offense and will be subject to disciplinary action or other educational or administrative interventions.
New Haven
New Haven is a vibrant city in the Northeastern region of the United States, about halfway between New York City and Boston.
Residential Regulations
Our residential regulations govern the Yale Summer Session Summer Colleges in New Haven. As a condition of residence in University housing, students are required to comply with these regulations, which are binding on all students in residence in the Summer Colleges and their visitors, whether from Yale or elsewhere.