Undergraduate Residential Options

We're pleased to offer undergraduate students on-campus housing options including traditional residence halls and apartments. For the 2022–23 academic year, housing placement is available in Courtyard Townhouses, Ege Hall, Orchard Meadow Hall, Prospect Hill Apartments, Reinhardt Hall, Underwood Apartments, Warren Olney Hall, and White Hall. All housing includes wireless Internet access, and use of laundry facilities is included in your housing fees.

Specific living spaces have been designated to accommodate students who require service or emotional support animals while living on campus; these types of housing are subject to availability. Information about service and support animals can be obtained from Student Access and Support Services.

Residence Halls | Apartments | Specialty Housing

Residence Halls

All residence halls have recreation rooms and kitchens. All rooms are furnished with a regular twin bed, desk, dresser, bookcase, and chair per student. Housekeeping services are provided for the shared restrooms and residence hall common areas.

Orchard Meadow Hall

Orchard Meadow Hall, a stucco building with a stairecase and ADA-accessible ramp leading to the entry, is surrounded by trees.
A Mills student sits in her room in Orchard Meadow Hall. The carpeted room has a window that overlooks a palm tree.

Orchard Meadow Hall consists of two separate wings. Connected by a large living room with paneled oak walls and tile floors, and the wings share a meeting room. Many of Orchard Meadow’s sleeping porches look out on a beautiful courtyard.

Special Features:

  • Single or double rooms with carpeted floors and a sink
  • California sleeping porches (some rooms)
  • Disability access
  • Two libraries 

Warren Olney Hall

Warren Olney Hall, a stucco building with large blue-framed mullioned windows, is surrounded by bushes and trees.
A Mills student sits on her bed in her room in Warren Olney Hall. The room has wood floors and large arched windows.

Warren Olney Hall gives you numerous opportunities to live with students from all walks of life and create bonds beyond the classroom. Special activities and programs bring students together, and the large recreation and TV rooms, kitchen, and lounges provide a comfortable setting for all.

Special Features:

  • Single with hardwood floors and a sink
  • California sleeping porches (some rooms)
  • Common rooms
  • Full disability access
  • Service/emotional support animal wings (supplemental application process required)

Lynn Townsend White Hall

Lynn Townsend Hall, a low-slung building with floor-to-ceiling windows makes an L shape around a blooming cherry tree.Lynn Townsend White Hall interior pairs a light, open design with modern-style furnishings and a spacious recreation room. Situated on the north side of campus, White Hall is conveniently located close to Founders Commons dining hall and provides easy access to the heart of campus.

Special Features:

  • Single or double rooms, some in suites featuring one double and two single rooms
  • Two-bedroom suites with private bathrooms and shared kitchenette, living room, and bathroom
  • Three wings, each with its own common area

Apartments

All rooms in our apartments are furnished with a regular twin bed, desk, dresser, bookcase, and chair per student. As a residential option designed for students seeking a more independent living situation, housekeeping services are not provided in our apartments.

Prospect Hill Apartments

Prospect Hill Apartments, a white stucco building with a pink rotunda and blue windows sits on a green hillside.
At the rear of Prospect Hill Apartments, a large common area balcony extends over the hill surrounded by trees and bushes.

Priority placement in Prospect Hills is given to students who have specific food-related disabilities/food allergies, Prospect Hill Apartments are situated atop one of the highest points on campus. Prospect Hill Apartments provide an independent living option of eight apartments, each housing four students in single bedrooms. Each furnished apartment has a kitchen, living room, and bathroom. The building also has a comfortable community room for study breaks, meetings, and casual conversations. An outdoor patio looks out on the beautiful nearby woods.

Special Features:

  • Four-bedroom apartments with shared kitchens and living rooms
  • Bathrooms with double sinks
  • Fireplace in community room
  • Disability access

Courtyard Townhouses

The Courtyard Townhouses, a stucco building with wooden accents, is framed by a flowering tree and pink and yellow flowers.
A Courtyard Townhouse apartment features a carpeted common area with a full en suite kitchen complete with fridge and oven.

Located on one of Mills' hills just off the main campus entrance, the Courtyard Townhouses include three buildings—Clare Springs House, Vivian Stephenson House, and Joan Danforth House. The distinctive Craftsman-style apartments in each house include a choice of four or five bedrooms and with two bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and an adjoining dining room.

Special Features:

  • Four- and five-bedroom units with two bathrooms, kitchen, dining room, and living room
  • Cable TV hookup in each living room
  • High-speed and wireless Internet access
  • Disability access
  • Service/emotional support animal apartments (supplemental application process required)

Specialty Housing

As a residential option designed for students seeking a more independent living situation, housekeeping services are not provided in our specialty housing.

Underwood Family Housing

The stucco Underwood Family Housing residences sit enveloped by trees and bushes.
Two of the Underwood Family Housing complexes face onto a shared outdoor coutyrard with a picnic table shaded by a large tree.

High above the College's Greek Theatre, Underwood Family Housing provides housing for Mills students with children. The building complex offers a total of 12 two-bedroom apartments in three separate buildings, all with wonderful views—and only a five-minute walk from the center of campus.

Special Features:

  • Two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartments with living room and eat-in kitchen
  • Children’s play yard
  • Private entrances
  • Reserved parking spaces

Housing
E: housing@mills.edu

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