Southend Campus accommodation

Returning undergraduate and postgraduate students Southend

Applications are now open.

On the application form, you will be asked to select your preferred locations. Please select these in order of preference and don't select any location which you wouldn't be prepared to accept. We cannot guarantee that you'll be offered your first choice of accommodation.

You will need to access the online form via the following link and select the 2023-24 academic year from the drop-down, when applying.

• Southend returning accommodation application form 2023-24

(You will need your Essex username and password to apply)

Returning South Essex College (SEC) Students

• SEC returning accommodation application form 2023-24 (pdf.)

You are required to complete a PDF form and please note, that these are interactive PDF forms. Therefore, you must save a copy of it to your device before completing your information. If you do not save this file to your device, you will lose any information you have filled in. The submit button will then attach the form to an email ready to send to us. Alternatively, please send via email to accadmin@essex.ac.uk. 

You're welcome to request an allocation with your friends. You should list their PRIDs in the 'additional information' field on the online application form. Each of your friends must also submit their own separate application and have the same preferences as you. Please note that we cannot guarantee we will be able to allocate you and your friends as a group.

Rooms will then be offered, as and when they become available. Rooms will be prioritised in the following order:

• Welfare/medical need undergraduates and postgraduates
• Part-year, incoming study abroad and Erasmus students, who fall outside the guaranteed quota of rooms
• New overseas fees undergraduates and postgraduates
• New home fees undergraduates and postgraduates
• New part year students
• Returning study abroad (Erasmus +) students and work placement abroad students
• All other work placement students
• All other full-time undergraduates and postgraduates
• All SEC returning students
• Returning part year students
• Continuation and completion students

We hope to begin making offers of accommodation in March 2023, so please make sure you check your email account regularly from that date for your offer (including your junk folder).

Accepting your offer

You will need to accept your offer of accommodation before its expiry date in order to confirm your allocation for the next academic year. The offer expiry date will be clearly specified in the offer letter.

Once you have accepted the offer you have formed a contract which is binding and you will not be able to give notice on the room unless you withdraw from the University.

If you have withdrawn temporarily from Essex (intermitted) during the first term of the first year of study and decide to return the following academic year, you may re-apply for accommodation.

How to apply

Contact us in January of the year in which you intend to return to your studies.

£150 offer

Offer not available to new students. Applications must be completed between 16 January 2023 and midnight on 23 April 2023 to be eligible to the cashback offer. The payment will be made in December 2023, following the applicant successfully moving in and completing the first rent payment. The £150 payment will be sent to the applicants Student Finance account. If you have previously held a tenancy or licence agreement with the University, our obligation to grant you the tenancy described in your Offer will be conditional on you having paid all sums due to the University under your previous tenancy or licence agreements. You will not be able to take up a new tenancy if you have unpaid debt from an earlier contract. This offer is only available to students who will be studying at the University full time in 2023-2024, and applied to accommodation, owned, or managed by the University. Offer subject to change and availability.

£200 offer

Offer not available to new students. Applications must be completed between 1st October 2022 and midnight on 15 January 2023 to be eligible to the cashback offer. The payment will be made in December 2023, following the applicant successfully moving in and completing the first rent payment. The £150 payment will be sent to the applicants Student Finance account. If you have previously held a tenancy or licence agreement with the University, our obligation to grant you the tenancy described in your Offer will be conditional on you having paid all sums due to the University under your previous tenancy or licence agreements. You will not be able to take up a new tenancy if you have unpaid debt from an earlier contract. This offer is only available to students who will be studying at the University full time in 2023-2024, and applied to accommodation, owned, or managed by the University. Offer subject to change and availability.