Privacy is a large issue with graduate students.
It is not surprising that 59 percent of respondents would live in a single occupancy, one bedroom apartment, while 57 percent would live in a studio apartme nt. Since we did not include an estimated rent for each option, we believe these results underestimate the interest in single occupancy apartments, especially one-bedrooms. Given this, respondents may have assumed a higher rent for one- bedrooms than studios or other options. We believe interest in one-bedroom single occupancy apartments would be even higher if these units were offered at a price con sistent with the stipends graduate students receive. One-bedrooms offer a high standard of living, for essentially the same construction and maintenance cost.