One of the many 18-hole golf courses is located on the UBC campus. For the skier, there are a number of excellent runs, the closest of which, at Grouse Mountain, is less than 40 minutes from downtown Vancouver by road and gondola lift. Whistler, rated the best in North American ski mountains, is about a 90 minute drive from Vancouver. Housing for single students is available in dormitories on campus and in private residences just off campus. Suites with more than one bedroom are reserved for couples with children and cost more.
All suites are within easy walking distance of the main campus.
Green College is a new interdisciplinary residential college for graduate students modelled after the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. This college is modeled after St. John s University in China. In general, the further from campus one is willing to live, the more available housing becomes and the less one must pay for rent.