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Residing on-campus enhances your college experience. Make new friends, become part of a community, and improve personal success along the way.

  • Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 New Incoming FTIC Students Housing Application opened September 7, 2023.
  • Summer 2024 Application opened January 16, 2024. Summer housing will be in Traditions Hall for returning students & Centennial Hall for new incoming FTIC students. All students have to be in one of these two buildings for summer and required to have a summer meal plan. Please see Housing Options for Traditions and Centennial for Summer 2024 rates and dates.
  • Spring 2024 New Incoming FTIC & Transfers Housing Application opened September 7, 2023.
  • Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 Returners & Transfers Housing Application. The housing application and waitlist are currently closed at this time due to the high volume of applications received.  Due to our limited availability of on campus spaces, we would encourage you to explore off campus options for the upcoming academic year if you have not already completed the Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 housing application.
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Off Campus Living Resources

This is a list of apartments and living communities near Tarleton State University campus. Tarleton Housing and Residence Life does not partner with or endorse any of these locations, but we do want to provide a starting place for students needing housing off campus due to high volume of applications received. Please contact the individual locations for more information about their amenities and pricing.

Mustang Ranch Apartments 
Ph: (254) 965-2820 
Address: 2820 W Frey, Stephenville, TX 76401 

The Grove Apartments 
Ph: (325) 267-6951 
Address: 2825 W Frey, Stephenville, TX 76401 

Summit Apartments 
Ph: (254) 965-7368 
Address: 1690 W Lingleville Rd, Stephenville, TX 76401 

The Edge Apartments 
Ph: (254) 434-2700 
Address: 1136 W Washington St, Stephenville, TX 76401 

Stephenville Rents
Ph: (254) 595-1090 
Address: 580 S Lillian, Stephenville, TX 76401 

Creekside Townhomes 
Ph: (254) 356-2793 
Address: 1000 E Lingleville Rd, Stephenville, TX 76401 

Oak Tree Apartments 
Ph: (254) 965-7368  
Address: 1650 W Lingleville Rd, Stephenville, TX 76401 

Elm Street Townhomes 
Ph: (254) 965-7368 
Address: 385 E Elm, Stephenville, TX 76401 

Riverwalk Townhomes 
Ph: (254) 965-1055 
Address: 1001 E Washington St, Stephenville, TX 76401 

Fireside District Apartments 
Ph: (254) 974-9050 
Address: 2241 W Tarleton St, Stephenville, TX 76401 

Stephenville Crossing Apartments 
Ph: (254) 965-6964 
Address: 1300 W Hyman St, Stephenville, TX 76401 

We encourage you to talk with their leasing teams as several of these communities may provide leasing specials to residents who apply to live with them. You may have opportunities for bonuses and/or reductions in living costs! 

Student Resources and Basic Needs Contact: 
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Residency Requirements

Tarleton supports a live-on campus requirement of one year for new incoming students (first time in college and freshmen). Students about to graduate or have already graduated from high school or have earned GED and have not yet attended a post-secondary institution for one long semester (i.e., Fall or Spring), are considered first-time in college (FTIC) students.

Students who have earned college credits before graduating from high school (AP or Dual Credits) or took classes immediately after graduating from high school (during the summer), are also considered FTIC students regardless of earned credit hours. FTIC students are required to reside on-campus their first academic year unless requesting and receiving approval for an Off-Campus Exemption.

Exemptions to Campus Residency Requirement

Exemptions to the Campus Housing Residency Requirement – A student may request an exemption to the campus residency requirement for one of the following reasons:

  • The student graduated from high school at least one year prior to the start of the semester – this only applies to students who are incoming new students beginning Fall 2024-Spring 2025 academic year.
  • The student will be 21 years of age prior to the start of the semester.
  • The student is a married student or a single parent with at least one dependent child.
  • The student currently resides, and will continue to reside, in the established primary residence of a family member (parent, legal guardian, sibling, aunt/uncle, grandparents) within 60 miles of Tarleton State University’s Stephenville Campus.
  • The student will reside with a sibling who is a registered student at Tarleton State University and will reside at the address that is located within 60 miles of Tarleton State University’s Stephenville Campus.
  • A transfer student who has completed college credits in a long semester (Fall – Spring) after graduation from high school.
  • The student is taking 8 credit hours or fewer as a part-time student.
  • The student has a financial hardship.