Housing

What is more important to you? Do you want to be able to walk to lectures, or is the type of accommodation more important to you than the distance to class?

Apartment = complete privacy

If you want to live in an apartment, you will have complete privacy, your own kitchen, and your own bathroom. The disadvantage is that you often don't even know your neighbors.

Shared apartment (WG) = contact with roommates

Is contact with other people important to you? Would you like to chat with people over dinner or while cooking, or cook together? Then a shared apartment is the right type of accommodation for you. 

Hybrid

In the WGs in K3 and Münchfeld, you have your own bathroom, but also a common area and a shared kitchen. In the kitchen, everyone has their own lockable cupboard. Everyone has their own refrigerator, which is located in their room.

A larger but more expensive room.
In the dormitories K3, Oberstadt, Wallstraße.

A standard room but cheaper.
In the dormitories Hechtsheim, Inter II, Kisselberg, Münchfeld, Binger Schlag, Weisenau.

You also clean the bathroom and kitchen yourself:
Hechtsheim, K3, Kisselberg, Oberstadt, Binger Schlag, Wallstraße, Weisenau

Shared kitchens and bathrooms that are cleaned: 
8-person shared apartment Inter 2, 12-person shared apartment Münchfeld

Of course, you always have to clean your own room, but the bathroom and kitchen are cleaned by the cleaning staff every weekday in the large shared apartments in Inter 2 and Münchfeld. Of course, everyone has to wash their own dishes; that's not what the cleaning staff is there for. If you leave dirty dishes and cutlery lying around, the cleaning staff is not required to clean underneath them. Toilet paper is only included in these two types of shared apartments. The cleaning staff replenishes it every weekday.

Two hotplates and no oven

2/3 shared apartments in Hechtsheim, apartments in all dormitories.
 

The standard in the halls of residence is two hotplates and no oven, known as a pentry kitchen. The mini kitchen contains two hotplates, a sink, and a refrigerator.
Important to know: According to house rules § 2, bringing your own electrical appliances is prohibited.

Shared oven and four hotplates

4-person WG's in Hechtsheim, in K3, in Kisselberg, 8-person WG's in Inter 2, 12-person WG's in Münchfeld

All WG's for 4 or more people have at least four hotplates (in Münchfeld there are even eight) and an oven (in Münchfeld there are even two). If you like to bake pizza, cook casseroles, or bake cakes, then a WG for 4 or more people is the right type of accommodation for you.

Living with a partner – apartments for couples

Inter 2, Weisenau

Important to know: Apartments for couples are not suitable for shared living.

Apartments for couples in Inter 2 have a shared bedroom, a walk-through room that serves as a study, living room, and kitchen (kitchenette), and a bathroom.

Couples apartments in Weisenau consist of one room with two beds, two closets, a kitchenette, and a bathroom.

Living with family and children – family apartments

Inter 2

Important to know: Family apartments are not suitable for shared living.

They consist of a small bedroom, a walk-through bedroom, and another walk-through room that serves as a study, living room, and kitchen (kitchenette), as well as a bathroom.

When should I apply for a room/apartment?

Apply for a room as early as possible: preferably at the same time as your application to the university or college. Of course, you can also apply earlier. At the time of your application for a room at the Studierendenwerk Mainz, no enrollment certificate needs to be available yet.

We rent out our dormitory places in the months leading up to the start of the semester. Therefore, our dormitories are usually fully occupied at the beginning of the semester. Then it is already too late to apply for the current semester.

One more important thing: find out what suits you.

Only after you have filled out the online application can we send you a room offer by email.

• Check your priorities (Find out what suits you!)
• Take a look at our dormitories on the website.
• Fill out the form and let us know your priorities through the "Notes" field, what is particularly important to you for your future home (Find out what suits you!).

Submit your eligibility for housing as soon as you have your certificate of enrollment

Apply as early as possible. You do not need to be enrolled or admitted to a university at the time of your application. As soon as you have your certificate of enrollment, simply submit it via the rental portal. Enrollment only becomes important when you decide to sign a lease.

Enrolled students at the following universities are given preference when it comes to awarding rental contracts because they have full eligibility for housing:

• Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (including preparatory college and music college)
• Mainz University of Applied Sciences
• Bingen University of Applied Sciences

Students from other universities and external, non-students must look for something else. We do not have space for you. You cannot live with us. Since students from the above-mentioned universities who are eligible for housing always have priority with us and there has been a waiting list for years, you unfortunately cannot get a room in a dormitory from the Mainz Student Services Association. You will therefore have to find private accommodation.

The legal basis for these points can be found in the framework statutes of the dormitories of the Studiwerk Mainz. 
Tip: If you are still looking for other options, here is a tip: Check out Private Accommodation.

It only continues if you click the confirmation link in the email sent to you. Otherwise, we won't receive your data at all.

Didn't receive an email with the confirmation link?

Please check your spam/junk mail folder to see if the email ended up there. Without confirmation via the link in the email, your application will not be forwarded to us, and we cannot offer you anything.

Keep your application active, stay on the waiting list: click the link regularly

At regular intervals, we will now send you an email in which you must click the link to stay on the waiting list.

If you ever forget to click the link, write to wohnen@studierendenwerk-mainz.de.

Check emails regularly! 1-3 days decision time

During the main allocation periods (August, September & February, March), we send all available rental offers via email. The rental contract offer must be confirmed within 1-3 days, otherwise the room will be offered to the next person on the waiting list. You will be automatically removed from the waiting list if you do not respond to the offer within these three days. 

Contract start: Our rooms are always allocated at the beginning of the semester for a duration of seven semesters, and you can terminate at the end of any semester. Therefore, the standard start date of a contract is preselected in the application. At other times, only remaining free rooms are allocated, so the selection of what we can offer is correspondingly limited. 

Your priorities: We try to consider your priorities, but we can only offer the rooms that are currently available. If your preferences were not respected, it is likely that all other options have already been rented.

When the offer will be sent:

We send out room offers

• between January and the end of March for the summer semester.
• between July and the end of September for the winter semester.

The later the application, the later the offer. We allocate rooms according to the date of application, which means that the later you apply, the later we will send you an offer.

Further information can be found in the FAQs on housing.

Now you can decide: Do you want to accept our offer, yes or no?

Do you still have questions, for example, if you have not yet received approval? You can find tips in the housing FAQs.

• Yes: Please sign the contract, scan it (or take a photo) and send the completed contract along with the other required documents back to us by email.
• No: You decline the offer. If you do not want to receive any further offers, you do not need to do anything else.

If you want to be reinstated at the very bottom of the waiting list, that is, continue to remain on the waiting list, then send an email to wohnen@studierendenwerk-mainz.de with the subject: Reinstatement on the Waiting List Tenant ID: xxxxx.

Now it's finally time: You can call the room in our dorm your own!

Tips and tricks that will make your move in process easier, can be found here.

We look forward to meeting you!