Non-standard course length

If you are studying a medical course, you may have a non-standard course length.

We try to house students on non-standard courses together so that they do not end up living on their own in accommodation at the start and the end of their course. We want you to have the best experience living in our residence and to enable you to live with students experiencing a similar student lifestyle which may involve placements or shift working.

We therefore have select residences to accommodate students studying 46, 47 & 48 week courses:

Hendrefoilan Student Village

Students are housed together in flats of 7. All rooms are standard, with shared kitchen & bathrooms facilities.  Free parking is available in the Student Village.

Singleton Park Campus

Students are housed together in 2 types of accommodation, both located near Singelton Hospital. Unfortunately, there is no student parking on Singleton Park Campus, so Hendrefoilan is a better option if you need to bring a car to University.

Standard accommodation - Located in Cefn Bryn, each room has its own wash basin, and you will only share a bathroom with 1 other person. There are approximately 18 rooms and 9 bathrooms in a flat.

En-suite accommodation - Located in Horton building en-suite accommodation for non-standard course length applicants, we also have a small number of rooms set aside in either Langland or Oxwich, these will be prioritised for students with medical conditions and early applicants. These rooms are in flats of 8 with shared kitchen facilities only.

Once you’ve accepted an offer to study at Swansea, you can apply for accommodation as soon as you have received your student number (this is provided to you from Admissions).  

When making your application online, you will need to make the following selections:

• Under ‘Student Category’, select: HEALTH SCIENCE COURSE (Nurse, Midwife, etc.,)
• Under ‘Tenancy length’, select 42 - 49 Week

You will receive your offer of accommodation once your place at Swansea is confirmed and all relevant checks are completed, such as a DBC check and medical etc.

Tenancy lengths for the courses below run at different times of the year to most of the degree courses within the university. For this reason, we tend to house medical students in the same area to accommodate the contract lengths.  

Course

• MB Bch Graduate Entry Medicine
• Audiology
• Cardiac Physiology
• Nuclear Medicine
• Nuclear Medicine / Radiotherapy Physics / Radiation Physics
• Respiratory and Sleep Physiology
• Neurophysiology
• Nursing (Adult/Child/Mental Health)
• Midwifery
• Paramedic Science
• Social Work
• Medial Engineering
• Rehabilitation Engineering

Tenancies run from Friday to Friday. If you require a change in dates, please email us with the revised date clearly outlining the required change and we can try to support you with this. All emails should be sent to accommodation@swansea.ac.uk. If you have already been allocated accommodation, and the dates change, you may be reallocated to a different room. This is so that you will be starting at the same time as students on the same course dates as you. If your course of study follows standard dates then you may apply to live in any of our accommodation.

For Health Care students requiring family accommodation, please see: Beck House. 

When making your application, choose Student Category: FAMILY ACCOMMODATION REQUIRED

Once you have been accepted to study at Swansea, the Go Global Team will send you information that includes your student number, which you can then use to complete your online accommodation application. You cannot complete your application without the information from the Go Global Team.

Although we do not guarantee accommodation for visiting and exchange students, you are still able to apply. To stand the best chance of securing accommodation, you should apply before:

Full year (September - June): 30 June

Semester 1 (September - January): 30 June

Semester 2 (January - June): 30 November

When will I know if I have secured my accommodation?

Full year: Rooms are normally offered to visiting and exchange students once we have allocated rooms to our full-time students who are under our guarantee. This happens after the majority of students receive their exam results in late August. Offers are then sent out almost daily.

Single semester: You should receive a room offer within 2 weeks of applying but at least 2 weeks prior to arrival. Check your email and accommodation account weekly for updates regarding allocation of accommodation.

It’s not normally possible to end your contract early once the contract is signed. You are bound by the conditions of your contract and you may need to go through an appeals process to be released.

Paying your Accommodation Fees

• You will have to pay a reservation deposit online within 7 days of getting your offer – this is deducted from your final rent payment.
• Please note that this reservation deposit is non-refundable if you later choose to cancel the accommodation allocated to you.
• Full information about when and how to pay for the accommodation can be found here: Finance & Fees
• Single semester: You will need to pay your full semester’s accommodation by the date shown on your tenancy agreement.

USA Fee Paying Visiting Students Only

If your accommodation costs are paid directly to Swansea University by your home university in the USA, you are still responsible for booking your own accommodation, but you will not need to pay us anything more than your reservation deposit when you make your online booking. Please check with the Study Abroad office at your home university to see if this applies to you.

If you are studying away from Swansea for part of the year, we appreciate it can be more difficult to find accommodation. Therefore, we have some options available in our residences.

If you are in Swansea for the following:

Full-year Students (September - June)

If you sign up for our accommodation and find that you are studying abroad you will need to:

• Notify us by the 30 June
• Forward a letter of confirmation from your department
• Reapply the following year for accommodation
• Any Reservation deposit paid for that year will be carried over to the following years' application

Semester 1 (September - January)

• You can apply for accommodation at Hendrefoilan Student Village (HSV) between February - 30 April
• You can apply for a University managed SAS Property (room in a private off-campus residence) from November - 30 April

Semester 2 (January - June)

• You can apply for accommodation at Hendrefoilan Student Village (HSV) 
• You can apply for a University managed SAS Property (room in a private off-campus residence)
• Please note that although you will be guaranteed a room, we will have limited options available.

For Information on Private Sector accommodation

Student Accommodation Services or (SAS) Lettings as they are known, can help you find accommodation in the private sector and provide a list of private accommodation available via the online house-hunting facility Studentpad.