Residences serve as focal points of intellectual, recreational, and social interchange.
Graduate residences offer student living environments diverse in background, language, culture, race, and religion of their residents. Through its residence program, Stanford seeks to provide graduate students with a supportive, friendly environment where they are encouraged to develop a strong sense of community. The University's philosophy of graduate student housing is based on the premise that supporting high quality graduate scholarship and research is central to the mission of the University. By providing affordable housing in proximity to academic resources, the University creates an environment conducive to research and intellectual dialogue among students, their peers, and faculty members. All residences offer social, educational, and cultural events.