Sam Houston State University·Huntsville, TX·Updated Monthly
By the FMP Data Team · Reviewed July 1, 2026
The Armory | Student Housing leads our July 2026 ranking of the 9 Best Overall student apartments near SHSU with a 5.0/5 FMP Score, followed by Bearkat Cottages and The Quarters Huntsville. Across the 9 properties reviewed, students keep coming back to amenities & shared spaces and management & maintenance: the overall signals that move a property up this ranking. Browse all off-campus housing near Sam Houston State University for every option.
Sorted by FMP Score from verified SHSU reviews, high to low. Scores reflect current SHSU reviews only.
why it ranked: The top overall pick near SHSU, at 5.0/5 from verified reviews. Great management everything pretty clean
| 1 | The Armory | Student Housing | 5.0/5 | 5 | – | $450/mo |
| 2 | Bearkat Cottages | 5.0/5 | 5 | – | $485/mo |
| 3 | The Quarters Huntsville | 4.2/5 | 5 | – | $430/mo |
| 4 | Encore at Sam Houston | 4.2/5 | 5 | – | $479/mo |
| 5 | Arbors of Sam Houston | 3.6/5 | 5 | – | $379/mo |
| 6 | Gateway at Huntsville | 3.4/5 | 5 | – | $399/mo |
| 7 | Woodcreek Apartments | 2.8/5 | 5 | – | $875/mo |
| 8 | Lark Huntsville | 1.8/5 | 5 | – | $349/mo |
| 9 | 18 Seventy Nine | 1.8/5 | 5 | – | $329/mo |
Walk times are door-to-door to SHSU campus. Rent is per person, per month.
FMP Score, high to low. That’s the whole ranking. It’s our overall measure of a property, combining verified review scores with signals reviews miss, like how current the listing is kept and how responsive management is. Ties go to the property with more verified reviews.
Every property near SHSU can appear, but it takes a minimum number of verified reviews before we score and rank it. Properties under that bar sit below every ranked property and move up automatically as reviews come in.
The FMP Score blends the social, management, and quality scores from verified reviews with signals that a place is actively and well run, like how up to date its listing is kept and how consistently management responds to residents. It’s built to surface genuinely well-run properties, not just the highest raw review average.
We ran every verified overall review for SHSU-area apartments through theme analysis. These are the themes students bring up most when a place feels well-rounded, by share of the reviews that mention them.
Based on AI analysis of verified SHSU overall reviews, refreshed monthly. Percentages show the share of reviews that mention each theme; most reviews mention more than one. See our complete SHSU review data →
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The most active social scenes: shared spaces, resident events, and roommate matching, scored from verified reviews.
see the ranking →The most responsive, reliable landlords: maintenance turnaround, lease transparency, and deposit fairness.
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see the ranking →The Armory | Student Housing leads our July 2026 ranking of the 9 Best Overall student apartments near SHSU with a 5.0/5 FMP Score, followed by Bearkat Cottages and The Quarters Huntsville.
This list is ranked by one number: each property's overall score from verified reviews. Students rate a property's overall 1 to 5, and we average those scores, counting recent reviews more heavily than older ones. No self-reported data from landlords.
The best overall apartments score highly across everything students rate (social scene, management, and unit quality), not just one. This ranking uses each property's overall rating from verified reviews.
Monthly. We re-pull verified reviews and re-score every property at the start of each month, so the order reflects the most recent 24 months of student feedback. The “updated” date at the top of the page shows the latest refresh.
There's a minimum number of verified reviews to rank by score, and we don't publish the exact bar so it can't be gamed. Properties under it still appear, below every qualified property and ordered by review count, so a 5.0 from one review never outranks a 4.5 from thirty. Once a property collects enough reviews, it moves into the scored ranking automatically.
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student apartments near SHSU
why it ranked: A podium finish for overall near SHSU, 5.0/5 from verified reviews. I’ve had an amazing experience at Bearkat Cottages! The community is clean, quiet, and perfect for student living. The cottages themselves are spacious, modern, and feel much more like a…
why it ranked: A podium finish for overall near SHSU, 4.2/5 from verified reviews. Maintenance team is great.on call and able to make something work
why it ranked: Holds a 4.2/5 overall score from verified SHSU reviews. Omar and Omar from Encore gave me the 5 star treatment and my apartment was perfect for me needs. Only complaint is that…
why it ranked: Holds a 3.6/5 overall score from verified SHSU reviews. Terrible apartments. Constantly having to shut the water off. Also bugs and more maintenance problems you will constantly live…
why it ranked: Holds a 3.4/5 overall score from verified SHSU reviews. I’ve been here for 3 years in a studio and overall i’ve enjoyed my time here. As for the studio, Bedroom, Livingroom, and Kitchen…
why it ranked: Holds a 2.8/5 overall score from verified SHSU reviews. We have been here 8 months and we love it the management and the maintenance is great.They come quick if needed. The apartments…
why it ranked: Holds a 1.8/5 overall score from verified SHSU reviews. Unfortunately there is no 0 star option, but i cannot stress this enough that I would NOT recommend this apartment complex to…
why it ranked: Holds a 1.8/5 overall score from verified SHSU reviews. The new parking policy is honestly really frustrating. We already pay a lot in rent and fees to live here, and being able to have…
