From our enchanting medieval sets to our brutalist Cripps Building, St John鈥檚 guarantees accommodation for undergraduates throughout your time at Cambridge. Our rooms, food and facilities are among the best in the collegiate University and right in the heart of the city.
You can live at St John鈥檚 College from October until June, which is handy if you want to leave your belongings here during the vacations.
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Many first years, or freshers, live in the Cripps Building, Chapel Court or North Court so you can get to know each other easily. In Cripps, typically, you will have a single room, sharing a bathroom and kitchen with up to three other undergraduates. The North and Chapel Court rooms, known as sets, consist of two student bedrooms (with the smaller room priced at a lower rent), with a shared bathroom and small kitchen for up to four people.聽
After the first year, you can opt for a single room, share with your friends, or live with a group in one of the nearby shared College houses. All our rooms are furnished and include a high-speed internet connection, and access to a kitchen and free laundry facilities.
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St John鈥檚 has four ground-floor student rooms adapted for wheelchair-users, as well as a number of other ground-floor rooms with step-free access suitable for ambulant disabled non-wheelchair users.
Most rooms on the College site are en-suite and further adaptations can be made if necessary. Live-in assistants and assistance dogs are possible. Your requirements should be discussed with the College well in advance.
You can find out more in our Disability Support section and FAQs.鈥
Shared kitchen facilities are provided but if you don鈥檛 fancy cooking, there are plenty of other options. The College has an award-winning self-service canteen, called the Buttery, as well as a modern Caf茅, which together provide meals, snacks, soup, salads and sandwiches at heavily subsidised prices and cater for most dietary needs.
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Rents at St John's are very competitive, vary according to the type of room and size, and fully cover your room from October until June 鈥 so you don鈥檛 have to move your possessions out for the Christmas and Easter vacations.
Prices include your energy costs, room contents insurance and free laundry facilities are available in the basement of the Cripps Building. Student rooms in College and in our shared houses are exempt from Council Tax.
On the main College site, your rent includes the fortnightly weekday cleaning of rooms (except for shared houses) and daily clean of communal areas by our Housekeeping staff, who are historically known as 鈥榖edders鈥.
Undergraduate rents for the 2025/2026 academic year range between 拢2,061 and 拢3,122 a term. St John's has adopted the Accreditation Network UK (ANUK) Code of Practice for the management of student housing.
Every student at St John鈥檚 is provided with a pigeonhole for external and internal mail and parcels can be collected from the Great Gate Porters鈥 Lodge.
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