When colleges and universities assign roommates instead of letting students pick and choose their own, the idea is often to increase the chance that students will live with someone from a different ...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions of higher learning in the U.S. has found that the political ideology of a college roommate may exert more influence on first-year students ...

College roommates are sensitive to their roommates' distress but tend to underestimate the level of distress being experienced by others. College roommates are sensitive to their roommates' distress ...

Duke University recently announced that first-year students will now be randomly assigned to their dormmates. The goal is to give students a chance to meet and learn from peers from a completely ...

At 18 years old, the Johnson County teen was already a bit stressed about moving to college in Illinois — unknown place, new people and all that. But never did she anticipate that when she arrived ...

Ben Boxer, a 21-year-old student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, knew he wanted to move out of the dorms and into an apartment for his senior year of college. Boxer started looking for an ...