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Off-Campus Housing Near Cornell
$649+/unit
Fees may applyAuden Ithaca
$1,400+/unit
Fees may applyCampus Hill Apartments
$639+/unit
Fees may applyCollegetown Terrace
$770+/unit
Fees may applyGraduate House at 811 N Tioga Street
$2,349+/unit
Fees may applyThe Ithacan Residences
$2,400+/unit
Fees may applyThe Outlook Apartments
$550/unit
Fees may apply102 Turkey Hill Rd
$1,000+/unit
Fees may apply103 College Ave
$745/unit
Fees may apply103 Sage Pl
$2,300/unit
Fees may apply104 Franklin St unit 2
$961+/unit
Fees may apply107 Elmwood 7 Minute Walk to Campus!
$1,000/unit
Fees may apply111 Harvard Pl
$1,050+/unit
Fees may apply111 Osmun Place
$800+/unit
Fees may apply112 Ferris Place
$760/unit
Fees may apply119 The Knls
$2,516+/unit
Fees may apply140 Seneca Way
$770/unit
Fees may apply201 Wyckoff Ave
$2,700+/unit
Fees may apply211 Linden Avenue
$700+/unit
Fees may apply212 Giles St
$2,400+/unit
Fees may apply217 Columbia St
$950/unit
Fees may apply222-226 Eddy St
About Off-Campus Housing Near Cornell University
Cornell University sits about 23,620 students on a hilltop above Ithaca, in New York's Finger Lakes, and the campus is famously dramatic: two deep gorges with waterfalls cut right through it, and Beebe Lake sits at the north edge. The land rises steeply from downtown, so getting to class means a climb, and the views over Cayuga Lake are the payoff. Just southeast of campus, Collegetown is the dense student district where most upperclass life happens. Ithaca is a small, walkable town built around the Ithaca Commons pedestrian downtown, and the surrounding state parks and gorge trails are a constant draw. Slope Day closes out spring on Libe Slope, and hockey at Lynah Rink is a tradition. Students walk, bike, or ride the free TCAT buses up and down the hill.
Cornell University Housing Requirements
Freshman Live-On Requirement
Cornell requires first-year and second-year Ithaca students to live in university housing, a two-year rule that comes with a meal plan, so most students do not move off campus until junior year. The requirement keeps nearly all underclassmen on campus.
Off-Campus Eligibility
Exemptions exist for students who are 21 or older by the start of the year, are married or have dependents, or commute from a family home within roughly 25 miles. When juniors move off, Collegetown is the obvious target, and because so much of it is purpose-built student housing, the leasing scene is organized but fast, with many buildings run through a handful of local management companies. Ithaca enforces occupancy rules on rental houses, so confirm how many unrelated tenants a place is legally allowed to hold, especially in the older Fall Creek and Belle Sherman houses.