At St. Clare's you can choose from a variety of high quality accommodation options. Our accommodation is beautifully situated. While all rooms are comfortable and tastefully decorated, the settings vary between elegant Victorian houses or a modern purpose-built complex.

The residential educational experience

Our aim at St. Clare's is the promotion of international education and understanding. We bring together students from as many countries and cultures as possible so they can interact with each other in academic and non-academic settings in a safe and tolerant environment.

Within College residences many of these aims of international living can be achieved. Students from diverse cultural backgrounds meet and live with each other and can realise appreciation and respect of different practices and views. The experience of living away from home in itself is eductaional, requiring students to become increasingly responsible for their daily lives. By staffing our accommodation with resident house managers we also seek to provide the care and support necessary to allow students who may be experiencing their first extended trip abroad to flourish in an atmostphere of academic excellence, respect and tolerance for others.

Placement of students in residential accommodation

• Liberal Arts students usually reside in College accommodation or accommodation organised by College (e.g. homestay with a local host)
• On entry to the College all students are placed within houses and within rooms to ensure mixing of cultural and language backgrounds
• Houses - but not rooms - are mixed with respect to gender
• Students will not be segregated according to age within Liberal Arts accommodation
• All students must sign the St. Clare's accommodation regulations on arrival at the College

Accommodation options for liberal arts students

• Single Superior
• Single Standard (with shared facilities)
• Twin Superior
• Twin Standard (with shared facilities)

You can choose between a twin or a single room. You can also choose a 'standard' or 'superior' room: students in standard rooms will be sharing a bathroom with a small number of other students.

• Liberal Arts students live in 5 houses, located within 15 minutes' walk of our adult Bardwell Road Centre or a short bus ride away
• All College houses have a resident House Manager
• Bed linen and towels are provided
• Laundry facilities are available

Residential policy at St. Clare's

Many of the benefits of international living can be experienced in our College residences. Students from diverse cultural and national backgrounds share houses at St. Clare's. Any student living in one of our shared rooms will be sharing with a student from another country. Time and again, we see how this generates increased appreciation and respect of different practices and views.