Step by Step Guide to Getting Postgraduate Accommodation

  1. Apply to AU for a place on a course of research programme
  2. Receive your Conditional Offer letter from Postgraduate Admissions – Get your 10 digit personal ID number
  3. Fulfil the conditions of the offer – you can only apply for accommodation once this is done
  4. From 1st April onwards receive your invitation to apply online for accommodation (Letter sent by e-mail and posted to home address)
  5. Apply online for accommodation. Applications open 1st April. Apply by 1st September to be guaranteed accommodation
  6. Your electronic offer of accommodation is automatically sent to you – Check e-mail regularly, including Junk.
  7. Activate your AU e-mail account to be able to accept your Accommodation Offer – July onwards
  8. 23 – 25 September – Fresher’s Weekend – Move into your room.

Key:

AU = Aberystwyth University